Best Nodes of the Day, Week, Month, and Year

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re^4: An anomaly with Filesys::DfPortable, I need your eyes afoken 10
As of Apr 02, 2026 at 18:16 UTC, Next refresh in 30 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Getting list of network interfaces Marshall 16
2 Redirecting anonymous requests to offline copy on other servers LanX 14
3 Re: Offline Copy of perlmonks Corion 14
4 robots.txt for www.*.org broken Anonymous Monk 12
5 Re^2: On improving Perlmonks site availability LanX 11
6 Re: On improving Perlmonks site availability dissident 11
7 Offline Copy of perlmonks LanX 11
8 Re^4: An anomaly with Filesys::DfPortable, I need your eyes afoken 10
9 Re^2: Offline Copy of perlmonks LanX 10
10 Re: Offline Copy of perlmonks Fletch 10
As of Apr 02, 2026 at 17:28 UTC, Next refresh in 2 hours and 45 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 31
2 SVG - what were they smoking? afoken 27
3 Re: SVG - what were they smoking? Corion 23
4 Re: A little overloading conundrum choroba 22
5 Re: A little overloading conundrum swl 22
6 Re: SVG - what were they smoking? choroba 21
7 Re^4: A little overloading conundrum Athanasius 21
8 Re: An anomaly with Filesys::DfPortable, I need your eyes dave_the_m 21
9 Tieing STDERR to a textbox causes the IPC::Run start function to fail CrashBlossom 21
10 Re: Win32::OLE & encoding Corion 20
As of Apr 02, 2026 at 13:00 UTC, Next refresh in 18 hours and 15 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Year

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later choroba 49
2 It's been a year davido 39
3 RIP Matt S. Trout LanX 39
4 Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later pfaut 38
5 Re: Perl hashes and non-determinism hippo 37
6 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 36
7 Perl v5.42.0 is now available! choroba 36
8 Re: Using system sort order Arunbear 35
9 Re: Basic question about Iterator code choroba 35
10 Re: [XS] sv_setpv change in behaviour with perl-5.42.0 and later dave_the_m 34
11 Re: Try::Tiny and -E haukex 34
12 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 34
13 Re: how portable is the random number generator? haukex 33
14 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 33
15 Re: Is it possible load optional modules from PERL5OPT? jo37 33
16 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
17 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later swl 33
18 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
19 Re: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output jwkrahn 32
20 Re: Regex Mystery tybalt89 32
As of Apr 02, 2026 at 14:13 UTC, Next refresh in 19 hours and 30 mins ±15 min