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oalders/README.md

Olaf Alders

Building the things that nobody is asking for.

I build developer communities through open source. I'm the founder of MetaCPAN, where I've spent over a decade sustaining a global developer community and creating tooling used by thousands of developers daily. I maintain foundational Perl libraries including libwww-perl and URI, and I'm the author of perlimports.

Currently raising funds for The Perl and Raku Foundation, co-hosting The Underbar podcast, and editing perl.com and The Perl Advent Calendar.

$ ls ~/pinned

My Mind is Racing — every run, swim, ride and race, all in one calendar. A free, community-built directory of 52,000+ endurance events.

PrettyGoodPing — certs expire, domains lapse, servers go quiet. One dashboard watches your SSL, domains, uptime and ping and emails you before things break.

$ cat ~/posts/latest.md

Can Others Explain My Work Without Me? A framework from Anil Dash helped me re-think my writing, and I turned it into the talk-about-us AI skill.

claude plugin marketplace add oalders/talk-about-us &&
claude plugin install talk-about-us@talk-about-us

$ whoami --contact

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  1. metacpan/metacpan-web metacpan/metacpan-web Public

    Web interface for MetaCPAN

    Perl 476 240

  2. go-for-perl-hackers go-for-perl-hackers Public

    Go Cheat Sheet for Perl Hackers

    Perl 97 15

  3. is is Public

    an inspector for your environment

    Go 47 2

  4. debounce debounce Public

    Limit the rate at which a command can fire

    Go 4

  5. dot-files dot-files Public

    My dotfiles

    Shell 31 4

  6. perl-ide/App-perlimports perl-ide/App-perlimports Public

    Make implicit Perl imports explicit

    Perl 25 12