Here are the notes from the February meeting of the Atlanta Perl Mongers. I make no claims as to completion or accuracy. Updates welcome.

Pre-Meeting

The speakers are acting funny in the room. Kinda driving us nuts (well, more so).
A lengthy discussion took place relating to the quality of the new Star Wars film, the prequels and the originals.
Some talk about how good ‘The Martian’ is; the book, the audio book and the movie.
Getting old is hell on your eyes.
I zoned out a bit and missed some notes.
Discussion over methods of communication
- IRC
- E-mail
- Google Wave (oh how I miss it)
- Various messengers and txt’ing
- Scott likes Slack
Getting notifications of messages or events
- Pushover.net - push notifications (non-free)
- PushBullet - same type of thing, but has free aspect
Bash.org/ is fun reading.
Apparently I am signed up to give a talk on Two-Factor authentication next month (March 2016)
- How I setup Yubikey with PAM/SSH
  - OTP (one time passwords)
  - Googles app vs other third party apps
- What systems support it
- etc
- This will be high level
YAPC:NA 2016 Venue Announced
- Sunday, June 19th through Friday, June 24th
- Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Orlando
Perl 6 is written in Perl 6
- Zoffix Blog Post about patching Perl 5 vs Perl 6

Util gives a talk - Arithmetic Coding with comparisons between Perl 5 and Perl 6

I’m not gonna lie, I can’t capture notes on this that’ll do it justice, you just had to be here.
- Rosettacode.org
- If you ever wondered how to pronounce radix
- Addition Chain

MDW tried out the coding game I posted about last month
- He suggests giving the first couple Mars Lander levels a go.

Wow was Cheesecake Factory crowded for a Thursday night.
Stephen and Util talked at great length about a code template system.
Scott talked some about needing to scrape web pages to make Docsets for Dash
- HTML::TreeBuilder was suggested by Util and Stephen as the way to grab elements from web pages.
- Dash is really OSX only
- Semi-Official Dash Alternatives
  - IOS: Dash
  - Windows: Velocity
  - Linux/Windows: Zeal
    - Scott prefers this to Velocity
  - Android: LovelyDocs
- Browser Based Alternative: devdocs
  - works offline in Chrome / Firefox
  - Chrome plugin
  - Firefox plugin
Stephen asked if anyone has done anything with Node & Websockets
- No really good responses to capture here.
- Though there are some perl modules (metacpan)
I talked a little bit about automating some things on my systems by watching DBUS
- Blog post about it here
My set of Dubs worked fairly well in toning down the general noise of the restaurant while not impeding my ability to converse at the table.
- They also Kickstarted a neat looking set of ear plugs where you can adjust the audio in real time
  - Here Active Listening
  - Gizmodo has a review up of them.