Day 9: Something old, something borrowed, something new, something stashed

Santa, having a little time off earlier this year, was looking at all of the modules that the Raku elves had made over the years, now over 2000 of them! But then he noticed something: not all of the modules appear to come from the same ecosystem? So what’s going on here, he asked one of theContinue reading “Day 9: Something old, something borrowed, something new, something stashed”

Day 4: Give the gift of time

Lately, Santa was getting lots of letters that went a bit like this Dear Santa: I’ve been mostly good, with 98% coverage this year, so what I want for Christmas is… time. You know, I have great Rakulang GitHub Actions for stuff, but when I need to install some external package and also many distributions,Continue reading “Day 4: Give the gift of time”

Day 1: SparrowCI pipelines for everything

New year is a fun time when the whole family gets together by a table and eat holiday dinner. Let me introduce some fun and young member of a Raku family – a guy named SparrowCI – super flexible and fun to use CI service. To find SparrowCI lad – go to https://ci.sparrowhub.io web siteContinue reading “Day 1: SparrowCI pipelines for everything”

Day 13 – Helping the Github Action elves

As a Raku Programming Language module developer, you are sometimes surprised by the tools that you use. In this case, yours truly was surprised by a recent update of the excellent App::Mi6 tool by Shoichi Kaji. After an upgrade, it started adding a .github/workflows/test.yml file to new distributions. And this in turn caused Github to test the distribution after each commit using GithubContinue reading “Day 13 – Helping the Github Action elves”