Vortices of Extelligence

Ringlet release: fnmatch-regex 0.3.0

Peter Pentchev — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:18:00 +0000

Version 0.3.0 of the fnmatch-regex Rust crate is now available. The major new addition is the glob_to_regex_pattern function that only converts the glob pattern to a regular expression one without building a regular expression matcher. Two new features - regex and std - are also added, both enabled by default.

For more information, see the changelog at the homepage.

2025 07 23 mapec 0.1.1

Peter Pentchev — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:45:00 +0000

mapec - my humble trivial tribute to Matt S Trout

So on Monday I learned from Perl Weekly that Matt S Trout of Perl fame has passed away. I can't say I knew him, though I read a lot of his writings and discussions, and I used a lot of his software; I may have briefly met him at YAPC 2014 in Sofia, but that doesn't really count.

So a silly little thing I did to honor his memory was to take a small program that does one thing and does it well, polish it up a bit, and, I guess, try to preserve it for a little bit longer. So here is my version of mapec for what very little it's worth.

2025 03 23 ringlet wk

Peter Pentchev — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:20:00 +0000

Ringlet software updates (2025-03-23)

Recent initial releases of [Ringlet software][r-site] (a fancy name for my pet projects):

[docker-scry][r-docker-scry] version [0.1.0][r-docker-scry-0.1.0] - examine Docker containers using host tools. Maybe the start of a set of tools that will allow system administrators to see what goes on in minimal containers that may not even have tools like ps or lsof installed.
[pshlex][r-pshlex] version [0.1.0][r-pshlex-0.1.0] - join various stringifiable objects and quote them for the shell. A trivial Python function that I've embedded in many of my projects over the years and I finally decided to release: a version of [shlex.join()][python-shlex-join] that also accepts [pathlib.Path][python-pathlib-path] objects.
[uvoxen][r-uvoxen] version [0.1.1][r-uvoxen-0.1.1] - generate test configuration files and run tests. A ...