In last week’s post I showed how to run a modern Dancer2 app on Google Cloud Run. That’s lovely if your codebase already speaks PSGI and lives in a nice, testable, framework-shaped box. But that’s not where a lot of Perl lives. Plenty of useful Perl on the internet is still stuck in old-school CGI […]
For years, most of my Perl web apps lived happily enough on a VPS. I had full control of the box, I could install whatever I liked, and I knew where everything lived. In fact, over the last eighteen months or so, I wrote a series of blog posts explaining how I developed a system […]
A few of my recent projects—like Cooking Vinyl Compilations and ReadABooker—aim to earn a little money via affiliate links. That only works if people actually find the pages, share them, and get decent previews in social apps. In other words: the boring, fragile glue of SEO and social meta tags matters. As I lined up […]
Last summer, I wrote a couple of posts about my lightweight, roll-your-own approach to deploying PSGI (Dancer) web apps: Deploying Dancer Apps Deploying Dancer Apps: Addendum In those posts, I described how I avoided heavyweight deployment tools by writing a small, custom Perl script (app_service) to start and manage them. It was minimal, transparent, and easy […]
Last week, I wrote a blog post about how I gave new life to an old domain by building a new website to live on that domain. With help from ChatGPT, it only took a few hours to build the site. While I’ll be adding new businesses and events to the site over time, that […]
