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<title>The First AI Winter</title>
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<description>Perplexity.ai has unveiled their own version of Deep Research. Let&#x27;s investigate the first AI Winter.</description>
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<title>Why AGI Won&#x27;t Be Soon</title>
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<description>There&#x27;s been a lot of talk about AGI coming soon, but there are some strong reasons to think this isn&#x27;t true.</description>
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<title>A Review of OpenAI&#x27;s new ChatGPT o1</title>
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<description>OpenAI has released the new ChatGPT o1, removing the previous o1-preview model. Is it any good?</description>
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<title>Prompt Engineering Is Not Dead</title>
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<description>Many prompt engineering tricks are becoming a thing of the past, but there are still some areas where they shine.</description>
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<title>Using Vector Databases with Perl</title>
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<description>Vector databases are amazing, but there are few options with Perl. If you use PostgreSQL, now you have one.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Escape!-Adventurs in AI Gaming</title>
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<description>I have updated my previous work with Claude to dramatically improve a Javascript game.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Using AI to Fight Misinformation</title>
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<description>Tired of people sending you pseudo-science articles, or &#x27;opinion&#x27; pieces by biased journalists? AI can actually help.</description>
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<title>AI for Accessibility</title>
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<description>Many people don&#x27;t write alt tags for images, or they write bad ones. However, these are crucial for people using screenreaders to understand the image. AI can make this easier.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Wardley Maps In a Nutshell</title>
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<description>Wardley Maps are an amazing business tool for planning, but you can suffer information overload when you read about them online. Read this quickstart to get up and running with them.</description>
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<title>AI-Generated Content: Innovation or Intellectual Theft?</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/articles/ai-generated-content-innovation-or-intellectual-theft.html</link>
<description>Many people are upset that AI is &#x27;learning&#x27; from their work and producing derivative content. Should they be?</description>
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<title>Agile is Not the Problem</title>
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<description>Agile is getting a bad rap. It&#x27;s not agile who&#x27;s at fault, it&#x27;s the agile industrial complex.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Programming Mutable Objects</title>
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<description>I&#x27;ve often noted that many objections to object-oriented programming go away if the objects are immutable. But sometimes, you want them to be mutable.</description>
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<title>An OpenAI Chatbot in Perl</title>
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<description>The OpenAPI::Client::OpenAI module is very low-level. We show how to write a wrapper around it for a clean interface with production code.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Claude Sonnet 3.5 beats ChatGPT 4.0</title>
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<description>I played with the new Claude Sonnet 3.5 AI and build a Javascript game.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Will You Lose Your Job to AI?</title>
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<description>Given the current worries about AI, people are worried about losing their jobs to it. You probably won&#x27;t. Yet.</description>
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<title>Building an iPhone App with ChatGPT</title>
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<description>I&#x27;m still regularly amazed at how many developers dismiss Copilot and ChatGPT as &#x27;stochastic parrots.&#x27; These parrots are much smarter than they think.</description>
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<title>Don&#x27;t Start with Microservices</title>
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<description>There are many mistakes people make with microservices. Starting with them is a big one.</description>
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<title>Microservices Pros and Cons</title>
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<description>Advocates and adversaries of microservices pitch their points of view. Let&#x27;s look at both.</description>
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<title>What to Know Before Debating Type Systems </title>
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<description>I hate discussing type systems with people, so let this be a lesson for you.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Corinna in the Perl Core</title>
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<description>Corinna is finally going into the Perl core. Here is a bit about the process.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Tracking Elon Musk&#x27;s Plane with Perl</title>
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<description>Using Perl and OpenSky Network data to track Elon Musk&#x27;s plane</description>
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<title>Using Github Copilot with Vim</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/articles/using-github-copilot-with-vim.html</link>
<description>I&#x27;ve started using Github Copilot. Color me impressed.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 08:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>All Around the World: Celebrating Ten Years</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/articles/all-around-the-world-celebrating-ten-years.html</link>
<description>All Around the World started ten years ago as a Perl consultancy. We&#x27;ve grown quite a bit since then.</description>
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<title>The Future of Perl</title>
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<description>With the new Corinna object system coming to Perl, many people are wondering what the future looks like for the language.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Converting Object-Oriented Code to Corinna</title>
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<description>I was recently humbled when I converted some code to Corinna and Corinna&#x27;s constraints showed the design flaws in my code.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Feature Switch Best Practices</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/articles/feature-switch-best-practices.html</link>
<description>One of the best things to come out of the DevOps movement is the promotion of feature switches. Let&#x27;s discuss best practices.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Current Corinna Status</title>
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<description>Demonstrating the current state of the Perl Corinna OOP project by implementing a simple cache</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Naming and Object Oriented Code</title>
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<description>I recently had an issue in a code review where developers disagreed about naming, but it was a subtle trap.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding Class Inheritance</title>
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<description>Inheritance has been problematic in object-oriented programming for over five decades. We will explore why.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Introducing MooseX::Extended for Perl</title>
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<description>MooseX::Extended provides safe defaults, best practices, and useful features for Moose.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 15:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Common Problems in Object-Oriented Code</title>
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<description>At https://allaroundtheworld.fr/, we are often fixing common issues in object-oriented code. This is a practical guide for resolving them.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 07:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why is Object-Oriented Programming Bad?</title>
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<description>You can find many articles explaining with OOP is bad. It&#x27;s not, but you need to understand the problems.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Are Microservices the Next Phase of Object-Oriented Programming?</title>
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<description>Modern object-oriented programming is a far cry from what Dr. Alan Kay, the inventor of the term, intended. Are microservices the closer?</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Constructive Versus Classical Logic in Perl</title>
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<description>Perl developers tend to think in terms of classical logic, but Perl fits constructive logic better.</description>
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<title>Why is Perl not putting Moose in the core?</title>
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<description>People keep asking why the Perl language doesn&#x27;t just drag the Moose module into the core for object-oriented programming. Buckle up, this will be a long trip ...</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Language Design Consistency</title>
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<description>Consistency can be a hallmark of great language design. My Corinna OO project for Perl falls short of this.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Classes Should Not Override Parent Attributes</title>
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<description>Slot/attribute builders in OO languages can be dangerous if you can inherit them.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 07:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Managing a Test Database</title>
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<description>It&#x27;s easy to get test databases wrong. Here&#x27;s a nasty hack I did for a software test to make it easier to get the test database right.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why Do We Want Immutable Objects?</title>
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<description>I&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;m building a new object-oriented system to ship with the Perl language. It tries to default to immutable objects. Why is that?</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Easy Git Workflow</title>
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<description>This is the dead-easy git workflow used by All Around the World. Github repo included.</description>
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<title>Making Complex Software Simple</title>
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<description>In the Tau Station MMORPG, we have hideously complex software requirements that are very easy to manage. This article explains how you can do it to.</description>
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<title>Work From Home Effectively</title>
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<description>Many people are now working from home for the first time. It can be challenging, but here are some tips to make it easier.</description>
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<title>Database Design Standards</title>
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<description>When I get called in to fix a client&#x27;s software, I find that most large codebases have common errors. Here are some of them and how to avoid them.</description>
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<title>Automated Software Standards</title>
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<description>Spaces versus tabs? Cuddled elses? I don&#x27;t care what you believe. Just believe. And automate it.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Case Study: 500 TPS</title>
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<description>We had 14 days to increase a client&#x27;s performance from 39 transactions per second, to 500. This is how we did it.</description>
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<title>Moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL</title>
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<description>Moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL can save you a lot of money and pain. Here are the steps you need to take.</description>
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<title>Managing a Remote Team</title>
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<description>More and more companies are discovering that hiring remote workers gives them access to more workers an is better for the environment. This is a guide about how to manage your new remote teams.</description>
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<title>Project Management in Three Numbers</title>
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<description>New to project management or product ownership? Here are three simple numbers that will make your work much easier.</description>
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<title>Alan Kay and Missing Messages (a follow-up)</title>
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<description>Many people struggled with my article about Alan Kay and OO programming, so let&#x27;s talk about the main objection.</description>
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<title>Alan Kay and OO Programming</title>
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<description>Dr. Alan Kay invented the term &#x22;OO Programming&#x22;, but he states that modern OO programming isn&#x27;t what he meant. What did he mean?</description>
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<title>The Worst Job Offer</title>
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<description>A short rant about one of the worst job offers I&#x27;ve received, from a company I very much wanted to work for.</description>
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<title>Software Projects as Used Cars</title>
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<description>Budgets are important, but their constraints can cost you more money than if you didn&#x27;t have them.</description>
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<title>How to Defeat Facebook</title>
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<description>A long, detailed explanation of what a &#x22;Facebook killer&#x22; would really look like.</description>
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<title>Fixing MVC in Web Applications</title>
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<description>Almost every example of &#x22;MVC for the Web&#x22; makes the same mistakes, costing my clients money. Here&#x27;s how to fix them.</description>
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<title>Avoid Common Software Project Mistakes</title>
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<description>When I get called in to fix a client&#x27;s software, I find that most large codebases have common errors. Here are some of them and how to avoid them.</description>
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<title>Estimating Development Costs is Almost Useless</title>
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<description>Every manager wants an estimate of the cost of developing a new software project. That estimate is almost worthless. Here&#x27;s what you should really be measuring.</description>
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