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

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm tobyink 13
2 Re: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm bliako 12
3 Re^2: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm LanX 11
4 Re^3: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected bliako 11
5 Re^3: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected hippo 11
6 Re^2: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm Corion 9
As of Apr 30, 2026 at 01:08 UTC, Next refresh in 15 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 32
2 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN hippo 23
3 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule ikegami 22
4 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN marto 21
5 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN roho 20
6 Re: Is it OK for Time::HiRes::time() to report the time differently per thread? ikegami 19
7 Re: parentheses missing in action Corion 18
8 Re: Where are the perldelta files for development releases? Corion 18
9 Re: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected Fletch 17
10 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule (updated) LanX 17
As of Apr 30, 2026 at 00:19 UTC, Next refresh in 2 hours and 15 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 31
2 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp haukex 29
3 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version dave_the_m 26
4 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Corion 26
5 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version haj 25
6 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Haarg 23
7 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule ikegami 22
8 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN hippo 22
9 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN marto 21
10 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp ikegami 21
As of Apr 29, 2026 at 08:17 UTC, Next refresh in 6 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 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 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 32
20 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
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