“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”
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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)”
The 2025 Raku Advent Posts
(in chronological order, with comment references)
The 2024 Raku Advent Posts
(in chronological order, with comment references)
Day 25 – Raku 2024 Review
How time flies. Yet another year has flown by. 2024 was a year of changes, continuations and preparations. Let’s start with the changes: Edument Edument Central Europe, the branch of Edument that is based in Prague (and led by Jonathan Worthington), decided to stop (commercial) development of its Raku related products: Comma (the IDE for the Raku ProgrammingContinue reading “Day 25 – Raku 2024 Review”
Day 24 – In Search of the Essence of Raku
Amongst all of its features, what do we consider to be the essence of Raku? In this advent post we will explore what makes Raku an exciting programming language and see if we can describe its essence. Paul Graham wrote an essay about the 100 year language, back in 2003. In it he had this to say: WhoContinue reading “Day 24 – In Search of the Essence of Raku”
Day 23 – Santa’s Print Shop
A lead-free area Elf Nebecaneezer (‘Neb’) was welcoming some young new workers to his domain and doing what old folks like to do: pontificate. (His grandchildren politely, but behind his back, call it “bloviating.”) “In the old days, we used hand-set lead type, then gradually used ever-more-modern methods; now we prepare the content in PDFContinue reading “Day 23 – Santa’s Print Shop”
Day 22 – Wrapping a Christmas Present
A few months back In the smoke-filled (virtual) room of the council of the high (from the smoke) elves, the wizened textualist Geoff, said “All of my stuff is in boxes and containers.” Empty shelves behind him indicated he was moving house. “When you have a complex module,” Geoff continued, “and its difficult to describeContinue reading “Day 22 – Wrapping a Christmas Present”
Day 21 – Dam Mega Christmas
[Edited by author] Scientists have also discovered that so-called megastructures built by humans can also affect the Earth’s rotation. Take the 185m (about 600 feet) tall Three Gorges Dam. Spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province, Central China, it is the largest dam in the world and is over 2,300m (7,500 feet) in length. ItsContinue reading “Day 21 – Dam Mega Christmas”
Raku Advent Calendar 