Raku

Too much cognitive load is a flow stopper.

Finding flow while coding is a juggling act to keep things in the Goldilocks zone: not too hard, not too easy.

This is tricky on an individual level and even trickier for a team / project.

Coding is communicating how to solve a problem to yourself, your team, stakeholders and lastly the computer.

The Empathic Programmer?

Perl's maxim - there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) can make Perl easy to write but harder to read.

Thankfully LLMs can de-obfuscate even the gnarliest Perl with command line utilities like wat (https://raku-advent.blog/2024/12/02/day-2-wat-llm-coding-too...)

There was always content in users’ click paths / search trails.

Google has mined that for profit from the beginning. Cutts and Co turned a blind eye here.

It was ALL OK though - because Google’s mission was DONT BE EVIL!

In 2008 Google was besieged by SEO consultants spamming their index.

Mining the collective intelligence of the hooman’s search trails was their algorithmic escape clause.

Their escape clause in 2025?

Mine for MORE!

Suggestions for putting LLM's to work on the command-line.

Sigils are just part of the picture. For Raku "twigils" (secondary sigils) are important too:

https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/02/day-2-less-variable-watt...

I use this everyday. A terminal program to jump to the next thing in your workflow.

do you still use emacs?

GNAP is coming soon: https://oauth.net/gnap/