new blog post: learning to code by larping https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s
if you want some open source projects to poke around at in (besides dreamwidth obv lol) your perl journey gitweb ( https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb ) and bugzilla are both entirely perl i believe: https://www.bugzilla.org
@moonsea also, loads of codebases for like, any non-silicon valley company that hosts its own tech.