<div>Mark sent us a lovely follow-up note.  See below.  </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you to all who attended, our two gracious speakers, logistics and IT support for all making a lovely meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>It's not too soon to start thinking about what you're like to present next month.   Learn something new and come share!</div><div><br></div><div>Note: I recorded the stream, but haven't had a chance to check quality and upload somewhere.  I'll get that done early next week. </div><div><br><div><br></div></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 23, 2017, at 9:57 AM, Mark Jason Dominus <<a href="mailto:mjdominus@gmail.com">mjdominus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear PM friends,<br><br></div>Thanks for inviting me to talk last night, and, for those of you who attended, thanks for coming!  I had a really good time. Thanks also to Andrew for lending me his laptop and arranging to stream and record the talk.  He should have attached the URL to this message if he didn't send it already.<br><br></div>I have put the most recent version of my slides at <br><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://perl.plover.com/yak/HoldSpace/">http://perl.plover.com/yak/HoldSpace/</a><br></div><br></div>The miscellaneous software I mentioned in the talk included this insane chess engine written in <span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">sed</span>: <a href="https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess">https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess</a><br><br></div>Related to Zach Holman's clever <span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">spark</span> utility:<br><ul><li>Original Holman implementation: <a href="https://github.com/holman/spark">https://github.com/holman/spark</a></li><li><span class="gmail-">My rewrite: <a href="https://github.com/mjdominus/spark">https://github.com/mjdominus/spark</a></span></li><li><span class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-">A blog post I wrote about <span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">spark</span>: <a href="http://blog.plover.com/prog/spark.html">http://blog.plover.com/prog/spark.html</a></span></span></li></ul><p>I couldn't remember the name of this organism.  It's called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigenia"><i>Hallucigenia</i></a>:</p><p><br></p></div></blockquote><div><img src="cid:15b032c3d05e0cd3a231"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>​</p><p>I'll be glad to answer questions if I can.  <br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:09 AM Andrew Grangaard <<a href="mailto:granny%2Blapm@gmail.com">granny+lapm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">Hello Mongers!<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">As announced at SCaLE15x, we're having an LAPM meeting this month.</div><div class="gmail_msg">This Week!  THIS WEDNESDAY!</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Completely coincidentally MJD is in town and may give us a short talk.  So exciting!</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Please RSVP for pizza ordering purposes.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">See you in 56 hours!</div><div class="gmail_msg">--Andrew</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">LA.pm's next meeting</span><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><table style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><tbody class="gmail_msg"><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">What:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Los Angeles Perl Mongers Meeting</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">When:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">7-9pm</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Date:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Wednesday March 22, 2017</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Where:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">ZipRecruiter - 401 Wilshire, 11th floor, Santa Monica, CA 90401</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Theme:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Perl!</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Refreshments:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Food and BEvERages provided by host</td></tr><tr class="gmail_msg"><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">RSVP:</td><td style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Responses always appreciated.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"></p><h4 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg">Presentations:</h4><ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,univers,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg"><li class="gmail_msg">fREW Schmidt: <i class="gmail_msg">Scalability, Reliability, and Performance at ZipRecruiter</i> <br class="gmail_msg">Abstract: I'm gonna do a (weird) version of my talk that I hope to do at yapc</li><li class="gmail_msg">Mark Jason Dominus: <i class="gmail_msg">TBD</i> <br class="gmail_msg">Abstract: TBD</li></ol><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">PS. If you're on facebook, you can rsvp here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/295880307496077/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/295880307496077/</a></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><br><br></blockquote></div></div>