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Day 13 – Christmas Crunching Part II

Christmas is nearly on us, 10 shopping days to go. Things at the pole were gathering pace, with so much left to do. Rudolph (him again) was pacing up and down, mashing his cheroot. He cast his mind back to the App::Crag calcs he had done last time – sure all the distances, times andContinue reading “Day 13 – Christmas Crunching Part II”

Day 7 – Allowing for fewer dollars

Lizzybel had been taking a bit of vacation from all of the busy-ness in the corridors of North Pole Grand Central. While doing a small visit to the corridors, she ran into Nanunanu, one of the IT elves.  Nanunanu was a bit worried, because they had not seen Lizzybel for a while. “Don’t worry”, said Lizzybel. “I’m just recharching my batteries aContinue reading “Day 7 – Allowing for fewer dollars”

Day 6 – Robust code generation combining grammars and LLMs

This document (notebook) discusses different combinations of Grammar-Based Parser-Interpreters and Large Language Models to generate executable code from Natural Language Computational Specifications.

Day 5 – Tools for Gnome::Gtk4

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”

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 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)”