code-quality Featured A bit of perl trickery I wanted to understand how this snippet worked, and now I do, but at what cost? I have stared too long into perl's abyss, and now it stares back.
testing Interlude: Test data randomization I have nothing against the practice of randomizing test data. It's a practice like any other and I'm sure some day I might find a valid use case for it. But there are risks that come with test data randomization that shouldn't be ignored