Perl Advent Calendar
perladvent.org · Group blog · on HN since 2011
The Perl Advent Calendar, a yearly series of December articles about Perl modules, tools, and practices, running since 2000.
What HN saysHN commenters note it as the original coding advent calendar, which inspired Advent of Code, and link its articles on tools like cpandoc.
15HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
40stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1My Top Perl New Features2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 220172 people · first shared 2017
- 3Half My Life with Perl1 people · 153 points · first shared 2024 · 131 comments on HN
- 4A New Logo for Perl1 people · 65 points · first shared 2024 · 66 comments on HN
- 5XML: Twig – A Time-Tested Powerhouse for Processing XML1 people · 55 points · first shared 2024 · 8 comments on HN
- 6Bashing Perl51 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Getting Started with App::perlimports1 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Perl Advent Calendar 20141 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9The 2012 Perl Advent Calendar1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10The Ghost of Perl Developer Surveys Past, Present, and Future1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 11A Trio of Modules to Speed Up Your Perl Web Applications1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 1224 Years of the Perl Advent Calendar1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13"Santa's Naughty and Nice Data Formats" by brian d foy1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 14Teaching Art to Computers the Hard Way1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 15How SUSE Is Using Perl1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
JadeNB · 2022-11-01
Thanks—it never even occurred to me to look!
https://perladvent.org
oalders · 2025-12-14
On day 14 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather continues yesterday's story, revealing how Santa's team used Critical Chain project management alongside No Estimates to identify dependencies and ship NaughtyNice 3.0 on schedule.
https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-14.html
perlperson · 2025-12-01
Historical note: the original coding advent calendar was the Perl Advent Calendar, started in 2000 and still going.
https://perladvent.org/archives.html
Advent of Code is awesome also of course -- and was certainly inspired by it.
MilnerRoute · 2017-12-02
There is also a separate advent calendar for Perl 5.
http://perladvent.org/2017/
prakashk · 2011-12-15
Install cpandoc[1]. It's supercharged perldoc command.
It lets you explore the CPAN ecosystem without installing the modules.
$ cpandoc XML::Twig
[ ... documentation for XML::Twig ...]
[1] Coincidentally, today's Perl Advent article covers cpandoc (http://perladvent.org/2011/2011-12-15.html).
stevekemp · 2017-12-01
http://www.perladvent.org/2017/ might be a better link.