Reformating images with App::BlurFill

An example of a processed image

You might know that I publish books about Perl at Perl School. What you might now know is that I also publish more general technical books at Clapham Technical Press. If you scroll down to the bottom of that page, you’ll see a list of the books that I’ve published. You’ll also see evidence of […]

Cleaner web feed aggregation with App::FeedDeduplicator

Dave working

I write blog posts in a number of different places: Davblog has been my general blog for about twenty years Perl Hacks is where I write about Perl My Substack newsletter is mostly tech stuff but can also wander into entrepreneurship and other topics And most of those posts get syndicated to other places: Tech stuff will […]

Deploying Dancer Apps (Addendum)

Deploying Dancer Apps

Back in May, I wrote a blog post about how I had moved a number of Dancer2 applications to a new server and had, in the process, created a standardised procedure for deploying Dancer2 apps. It’s been about six weeks since I did that and I thought it would be useful to give a little […]

Deploying Dancer Apps

Deploying Dancer Apps

Over the last week or so, as a background task, I’ve been moving domains from an old server to a newer and rather cheaper server. As part of this work, I’ve been standardising the way I deploy web apps on the new server and I thought it might be interesting to share the approach I’m […]

Mission (Almost) Accomplished

http_this --autoindex

[This post might sound like I’m angry at people making it hard to make progress on some things. That’s not the case at all. I realise completely that people have limited time and they get to choose how they spend it. If people are too busy elsewhere or have moved on to other projects then […]