The Underbar
A Perl-adjacent maybe-podcast, hosted by Philippe Bruhat (BooK).
The concept
If there's one thing I like more than writing code, it's talking about code. My best memories about code usually involve a late night discussion with a drink in one hand and no keyboard in the other.
In 2024, I seriously started listening to podcasts. "Live conversation with eventual interventions from the audience" is the format I find to be the closest to the bar conversations I like so much, and I'd love to listen to (and chat with) my friends from the Perl community, talking about random topics.
So, I figured I should just try it! How hard can it be to setup a conference call, invite a few interesting people, pick a topic to start the conversation, hit "record", and stop after roughly one hour? And make the recording public afterwards, for others to enjoy.
(If you don't like the undertones of "bar", you can think of this as "campfire stories".)
The Podcast
Episode 0 - A New Logo for Perl
Cast (in order of appearance): Philippe Bruhat, Olaf Alders, Thibault Duponchelle, Bruno Meneguele, Ingy döt Net, Ricardo Signes, Sébastien Feugère.
Recorded on Friday, January 10th, 2025. Edited by Thibault Duponchelle. Thanks to The Perl and Raku Foundation for letting us use their Zoom license to record the episode.