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Treating GitHub Copilot as a Contributor2 weeks

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 assig...

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App::HTTPThis: the tiny web server I keep reaching for2 months

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.

F...

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Behind the scenes at Perl School Publishing3 months

We’ve just published a new Perl School book: Design Patterns in Modern Perl by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

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Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall3 months

If you were building web applications during the first dot-com boom, chances are you wrote Perl. And if you’re now a CTO, tech lead, or senior architect, you may instinctively steer teams away from it—even if you can’t quite explain why.

This reflexive aversion isn’t just a preference. It’s what I call

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