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Perl: Dead and loving it Internet people love to spray their feelings about everything under the sun at every passerby. Perl, being a programming language, is no exception. At the end of the day, all the sound and fury signifies nothing. While I've largely laid out my perspective on this subject her

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Fear and loathing at YAPC Despite being the worst attended YAPC in recent memory, 2024's show in Vegas had some of the best talks in a long while. In no particular order, the ones I remember after a week are: Damian's talk - Implements most of what you want out of a type system in perl, one of the p

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So you want to use client certificates instead of HTTP simple auth In an earlier essay, I went over the sticky reality that is the CA infrastructure. I'd like to discuss a related subject, which is why nobody uses client certificates to restrict access to and authenticate users of websites, despite them being "supported" by browsers for many

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Nginx Unit: new kid on the PSGI block For those of you not aware, there has been a new entry in the PSGI server software field, this time by NGINX. Let's dig in. Performance Comparisons Low Spec # It may shock you to find I have worked with shared hosts. Env: 4GB ram, 2cpu. # This is basically saturating

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Programming seems to finally be standardizing. How did we get here? entirely by accident An old (ish) trick to speed up webpages is using sendfile() to DMA files to a socket. Nowadays you use SSL_sendfile and Kernel TLS, (optionally offloaded to a specialized TLS processor) but you get the idea. Bypass the CPU and just vomit data out the NIC