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

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: NFS File Locking hippo 11
2 Re^2: NFS File Locking Corion 11
3 Re^2: NFS File Locking Fletch 10
4 Re: NFS File Locking duelafn 10
5 Re^2: NFS File Locking jbw8387 7
As of Apr 10, 2026 at 06:47 UTC, Next refresh in 45 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: NFS File Locking choroba 17
2 Re: It's been a long time marto 16
3 NFS File Locking jbw8387 15
4 Re: Broken XML show Perl code LanX 13
5 Re^2: NFS File Locking jbw8387 11
6 Re^3: Getting list of network interfaces Marshall 11
7 Re: NFS File Locking hippo 10
8 Re^2: NFS File Locking Corion 10
9 Re^2: NFS File Locking Fletch 9
10 Re: NFS File Locking duelafn 9
As of Apr 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC, Next refresh in 1 hour ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 34
2 Re: SVG - what were they smoking? Corion 24
3 Re: Win32::OLE & encoding Corion 22
4 Re: SVG - what were they smoking? choroba 22
5 Re: [OT] Is It Possible To Serialize A Chess Board In Fewer Than 23 Bytes? afoken 21
6 Re: [OT] Is It Possible To Serialize A Chess Board In Fewer Than 23 Bytes? choroba 20
7 Getting list of network interfaces Anonymous Monk 19
8 Re: Win32::OLE & encoding ikegami 19
9 Re: Count assertions hippo 19
10 [OT] Is It Possible To Serialize A Chess Board In Fewer Than 23 Bytes? Limbic~Region 19
As of Apr 09, 2026 at 11:44 UTC, Next refresh in 4 hours and 30 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 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 34
11 Re: [XS] sv_setpv change in behaviour with perl-5.42.0 and later dave_the_m 34
12 Re: Try::Tiny and -E haukex 34
13 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 34
14 Re: how portable is the random number generator? haukex 33
15 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 33
16 Re: Is it possible load optional modules from PERL5OPT? jo37 33
17 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
18 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later swl 33
19 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
20 Re: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output jwkrahn 32
As of Apr 09, 2026 at 16:09 UTC, Next refresh in 9 hours ±15 min