A short while ago, Santa Claus came to me for a short visit to drink a cup of tea together. That was very pleasant, but I had the idea that there was something more, knowing that he is always busy, especially these days. After some time, he came forward and said that the elves hadContinue reading “Day 5 – Tools for Gnome::Gtk4”
Category Archives: 2025
Day 4 – Gift yourself a merry little PDF journal
I wanted to give myself the Xmas gift of a 2026 pdf journal this year. I had grand plans to create a fully fledged library for doing this, but ironically enough I just wasn’t that organised! But courtesy or the comprehensive PDF api by dwarring https://raku.land/zef:dwarring/PDF::API6 and with help from tbrowder’s Date::Names for human datesContinue reading “Day 4 – Gift yourself a merry little PDF journal”
Day 3 – Christmas Crunching Part I
“Advent is here”, the buzz was all around, the elves were getting nervy and the reindeer pawed the ground. Rudolph (for it was he) stood in quiet contemplation as the elves increased their pace and the din grew ever louder. As we every other Christmas, he was wondering how to get the job done –Continue reading “Day 3 – Christmas Crunching Part I”
Day 2 – Doing Data Science with Raku
This document provides an overview of Raku packages, as well as related documents and presentations, for doing Data Science using Raku. A comprehensive list of references is given.
Day 1 – Dancer, Dasher and Dosh (LLM-powered shell commands)
Dancer, Dasher and the other reindeer work overtime on Christmas Eve delivering billions of gifts. Each year the DevOps elves try and make things flow a bit smoother. The team use dosh (Do-Shell) – a Raku-powered command-line utility for turning natural language into platform-friendly shell commands. Instead of remembering all those pesky command-line utilities andContinue reading “Day 1 – Dancer, Dasher and Dosh (LLM-powered shell commands)”
Raku Advent Calendar 