Programming Perl by Voice with Emily Shea
The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026 · Talk · 51 min · 2019 · YouTube title: Emily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"
Why it's here
HN treats it as a phenomenal demonstration that voice-driven development is viable and as an eye-opener on accessibility-unfriendly coding habits.
What it covers
Emily Shea, a Fastly engineer with repetitive strain injury, describes using voice dictation as her main way of programming. She covers homophones, custom vocabulary and building her own voice commands to write Perl.