Perl Hacks

Sometimes you design a system.

“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson I was reminded of that quote this week when I received a support request for a Perl CGI script I helped write about twenty-five years ago.

Every now and then I’m reminded of a technology from the early days of the web and wonder if I imagined it.

Back in 2020 I gave a pretty definitive statement of my position on physical books.

Back in January I wrote about App::HTTPThis, the tiny web server I seem to reach for whenever I need to share the contents of a directory over HTTP.

A question came up recently in the Perl community asking whether, in a Mojolicious application, it’s better to use DBIx::Class or a Mojolicious-specific module like Mojo::Pg.

Public Identifiers, UUIDs and a Tiny SEO Fix A recent question from my friend and colleague Mohammad got me thinking about the way we identify data in web applications.

One of the more interesting additions I’ve made recently to the Line of Succession website is support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

One of the defining characteristics of a good programmer is an instinct for keeping implementation details in the correct layer of an application.

Every month, I write a newsletter which (among other things) discusses some of the technical projects I’ve been working on.