Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale

Today’s story is about my naiveness and terminals. The original task is simple. Show the output of some program in a sub frame of a TUI application. (TUI == Text User Interface, i.e. apps like tmux, vim, k9s)For those that wonder, there is a yet to be finished TUI debugger application I’m working on, theContinue reading “Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale”

Day 14 – Taming Concurrency

Hello everyone and a merry advent time! Today I’d like to show case a neat little mechanism that allows building concurrent applications without having to worry about the concurrency much. I’ve built this tool as part of the (yet to be released) Rakudo CI Bot. That’s a middle man that watches GitHub for things toContinue reading “Day 14 – Taming Concurrency”

Day 19 – Wrapping Scripts

This is a cross post of https://dev.to/patrickbkr/better-wrapper-scripts-158j When creating an application in Raku one will at one point typically hit the issue that the application can only be started by calling raku and passing a few arguments. The usual solution is to write a small wrapper shell script on POSIX and a bat script onContinue reading “Day 19 – Wrapping Scripts”