an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
A brilliant and humane essay on changing work habits.
Excuse me while I get up and stretch.
I can vouch for the writer’s experience, though for me it has been less about back pain (though I have that too) than eye strain (going on 7 years now). Biggest of all though has been having children and working from home: that is the interruption formula in a nutshell.
SWISH::3 0.08_04 is passing all tests all over the CPAN testers universe, so that is encouraging.
However, some reports (notably on FreeBSD) report false failures because of a Wstat issue.
I’ve posted about it at PerlMonks and hope someone out there has an easy fix.
Update: finally found a fix for this. The problem is that Perl has its own my_setenv() function that interferes with the native setenv() called by libswish3.c. The fix was to set the magic Perl var PL_use_safe_putenv as shown here. This took many hours and googling to track down. Glad to be done with it (I hope!).
Our new daughter arrived yesterday. We are all home, doing well.
Update: her middle name is inspired by this Wendell Berry poem.
This is a really good op-ed. Mayhill Fowler gets just the right amount of “philosophical and epistemological” in her reflections on the recent McChrystal blow-up.
The storyteller changes reality, because the story changes our memory, personal and collective. It’s always that way. It’s the great lesson of the Deconstructionist school. All narrators are untrustworthy — or rather, trust is not the same as fact. And faith is an act of trust, not fact.
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