User information

Mr. Brent Laabs (‎labster‎)

City
Ventura, California
Country
United States
Company
Perceptyx Inc.

Bio

English
 I, Brent "labster" Laabs, am a meteorologist from California. I currently work full-time for Perceptyx, Inc. as a Perl programmer

I started using Perl for work in 2000, went to university and got stuck using FORTRAN and Matlab, before coming back to Perl in the end. I've been submitting modules for Perl 6 (that now need updated), and I contributed much of the IO::Path/IO::Spec code in the Rakudo compiler. Some day, I hope to get back to that.

Other than programming, I'm interested in board gaming and tabletop RPGs, anime, writing fanfic. In my spare time, I write features for Mediawiki (unfortunately in PHP).

Attending talks

‎Modeling a Universe‎
‎Notes from the Trenches: Parsing Perl 6 *with* Perl 6‎
‎Lightning Talks Day 1‎
‎Lightning Talks Day 2‎
‎Lightning Talks Day 3‎
‎Pakket - An Unopinionated Meta-Packaging System‎
‎Perl 5.26 and the Blue-Blue Shiny Ball of Eternal Transparency‎
‎Rakudo.js - compiling Perl 6 to JavaScript‎
‎Random Numbers in Perl‎
‎Functional Programming in Perl 6‎
‎Using Perl 5 to make a program several hundred times faster‎
‎Perl 6: Superglue for the 21st Century‎
‎Testing the waters‎
‎Function Signatures Compared - Perl6, Perl5.20 and Sub::Sig‎
‎How to hack the MoarVM JIT compiler‎
‎High End Unicode in Perl 6‎
‎Unicode Internals of Perl 6‎
‎Awaiting the Future‎
‎Game night!‎
‎The Case for Empathy‎
‎Three Little Words‎
‎Keynote‎
‎The Shoulders Of Giants: 400 Years Of Perl 6‎

Other Act conferences:

The Perl Conference in Glasgow :: Europe :: 2018
YAPC::NA 2016
YAPC::NA::2015
YAPC::NA 2014
YAPC::NA 2013