“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. If you’re a software developer, your immediate reaction is probably the same as mine was. “A […]
Every now and then I’m reminded of a technology from the early days of the web and wonder if I imagined it. This week, it was Mohammad using WebAssembly to run Perl in his browser. Which led to me thinking about PerlScript. If you’re a certain age, and you spent any time developing web applications […]
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 […]
