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# pure Perl httpd - Pure Perl server. Since 1998 still gets downloaded
# fish - Fish is a wrapper engine around Watir. Web automation ('plays') are expressed in YAML files. Designed to be minimalistic, extendable, polyglot. Influenced by Squish (by FrogLogic) and Ansible. Windows Server, Ruby, Watir, Google chrome, Perl 5
# scalable Perl - Implemented in 2003 normal signatures in Perl and eventually developed in 2015 into Scalable Perl data mining
# benchmarks by AI - Y 2024 is the year of Generative AI. I did one experiment as well.
# AI - some notes on AI

#perl memes page Little black hole of attention. Scrollable. I keep this little collection and update it occasionally.
#did you know Below are famous quotes of programmers, mathematicians, physicists and my thoughts on how they are applicable in our age.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rick Cook

This is similar to Automation Paradox Loop, that I figured out after dealing with various datacenters in different countries/states and witnessing that no two datacenters are the same. Somehow. Even though the datacenters are supposed to be the same, really. In reality - they are not. Any complex combination of humans and machines is like that. Or even any combination of reliable and unreliable stuff.
Taleb describes those two matters in "Fooled By Randomness", but he does not elaborate on blends or equilibrium.
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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. Dennis Ritchie

So I write plenty of code in Perl 5 (with some syntax twists) but Perl 5 runtime is no longer maintained and (like PHP runtime) it is now collapsing here and there. So I had to implement my own programming stack of sorts, that allows me to write in Perl, debug in Perl and then prepare the standalone executable. During the process, I've been writing down some things that I found. It's a long page and I update it more or less regularly.
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