Announcing Algorithm::CurveFit
version 1.06
After having blogged about a bug (and its fix) in Algorithm::CurveFit
, as
well as giving a talk about it at the 2024 London Perl and Raku Workshop,
I’ve finally gotten around to building and releasing the fix to CPAN.

Rubber stamp-like text effect via the Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive.
Last year I wrote a blog post about a fascinating bug I
found and fixed in the Perl module
Algorithm::CurveFit
. I
also gave a talk about this
at the 2024 London Perl and Raku Workshop.
As I mentioned in the talk, the bug fix commit landed while I was on the Eurostar train travelling from France to England, which was pretty cool. As it turns out, I didn’t push the commit while actually in the Chunnel, however, that would have been nice, had I thought of it (the internet connection was pretty flaky as it was, so maybe it wouldn’t have worked anyway).
I’d been able to push to the newly-created GitHub repository for the
project before LPW 2024
because the Algorithm::CurveFit
author had graciously given me a commit
bit to the repository and
COMAINT
on the Perl distribution in PAUSE. Thanks,
Steffen! Thus, all the pieces were in place for me to fix the code and
cut a release. So why did it take until January 2025 for a release to
appear? Well, work got busy and then there’s this large end-of-year
festival every year which tends to take up lots of time.
So, last week I finally found the time to do a bit of housekeeping in the project and to cut a bug-fix release. Get the updated version now at a CPAN near you!1
There are still a few things I’d still like to do as part of a future release:
- Bring the code up to current Perl best practices.
- Investigate and fix the five-point stencil issue I mentioned in my initial article.
- Check more of the code and docs, and do more project-related housekeeping.
Fingers crossed I manage to get around to doing this sometime this year.
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Ginsu steak knives not included. ↩
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