Projects
Here you will find a list of some of the projects I am working on. Most of them will be programming projects, but I may add some non-programming ones in the future at some point. Most of my projects will be written in either Perl or Raku, as those are my favorite languages to work with. All projects that I am in charge of are hosted on my Codeberg.
- SlackBuilds: I maintain various SlackBuilds for SlackBuilds.org, a community repository of software build scripts for the Slackware Linux distribution.
- CPAN: I upload some of my Perl
programs/modules on CPAN.
- noss: Command-line RSS/Atom feed reader and aggregator.
- sbokeeper: Perl program that maintains a database of installed SlackBuilds.org packages with some nifty features like dependency management. Not a package manager itself, meant to be used along with one like sbopkg.
- ishmael: Program for dumping the formatted text contents of various ebook formats.
- gutenberg: Fetch ebooks from Project Gutenberg.
- stubb: Program to create stub files from templates.
- tarotplane: Simple Curses flashcard program written in Perl.
- newver: Scan upstream web pages for new software versions, similar to Debian's uscan utility.
- File::Tudo: Module for reporting TODOs from scripts. A port of one of my Raku modules of the same name.
- quixftp: Simple FTP server for quickly sharing files over your network, written in Go. My first serious Go project.
- zef: I maintain some Raku (Perl 6)
programs/modules that are available on zef.
- File::Tudo: Module for reporting TODOs from scripts.
- Sys::OsRelease: Raku module that provides a subroutine for reading data from your system's os-release file. I wrote this module to learn how module distribution works in the Raku ecosystem.
- Pod::To::Man: Module for converting Pod to roff manpages. I didn't write this one myself, but I have made some notable contributions to it and now maintain it.
- Archive::Ar: Module for reading
and writing Unix ar archives, the archive format used by Debian
.debpackages. - Fortune: Module for reading and writing Unix fortune files, both the text databases and the binary headers. This is basically an improved version of my first Perl module, File::Strfile.
- This website: You're looking at it.
Last Modified: 2025-12-25
You know it's going to be a long day when you get up, shave and shower,
start to get dressed and your shoes are still warm.
-- Dean Webber