Every month, I write a newsletter which (among other things) discusses some of the technical projects I’ve been working on. It’s a useful exercise — partly as a record for other people, but mostly as a way for me to remember what I’ve actually done. Because, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, it’s very easy to […]
Every so often, a new data serialisation format appears and people get excited about it. Recently, one of those formats is **TOON** — Token-Oriented Object Notation. As the name suggests, it’s another way of representing the same kinds of data structures that you’d normally store in JSON or YAML: hashes, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans and […]
About eighteen months ago, I wrote a post called On the Bleading Edge about my decision to start using Perl’s new class feature in real code. I knew I was getting ahead of parts of the ecosystem. I knew there would be occasional pain. I decided the benefits were worth it. I still think that’s […]
For some time, we’ve talked about GitHub Copilot as if it were a clever autocomplete engine. It isn’t. Or rather, that’s not all it is. The interesting thing — the thing that genuinely changes how you work — is that you can assign GitHub issues to Copilot. And it behaves like a contributor. Over the […]
Whenever I’m building a static website, I almost never start by reaching for Apache, nginx, Docker, or anything that feels like “proper infrastructure”. Nine times out of ten I just want a directory served over HTTP so I can click around, test routes, check assets, and see what happens in a real browser. For that […]
