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Learned perl back in 2008 and I've written a gazillion lines of it ever since. This year was finally the year where it landed me my (I think!) dream job. The new work has forced me to learn:

- SQL and database integration

- Template Toolkit

- How to debug a very large and complicated web product; the dev/test/debug cycle is not like anything I've ever experienced before, writing libraries and cli applications.

- Javascript

- The concept of async programming

- That I can function together with other people at a physical workplace and that I might be better at what I do than what I've thought for these past four months since I started.


Yeah, that's a thing with us swedes in general, and perhaps also with tech people in general. Combine the two and...


But Google got a whole bunch of way more niche products today. Just check the play store.


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