I did a deep dive into how pasted links turn into previews in chat and social media applications and was pleasantly surprised to find CPAN had the solution for me. I found a couple of gotchas you might want to know about if you don't want to figure this out the hard way.

A common problem in websites is the "Mixed Content Warning" on SSL virtualHosts. In the end it becomes yet another "I should (and do) know better" stream, lol

I tried to fix a bug, but had to fix other things first. This is how most days go when you are programming.

Branching out thanks to our friends over at the Houston Linux User's Group.

The fundamental motivation for all programmers -- "this is taking to long!"

Speaking of, this stream took way too long because the docu I was looking at was solving a different problem (smaller disk size than less time).

Feed my greedy algos!!!1

Try not to stick your hands in the guts of your containers unless you want jungle diseases. Here's a practical example of doing the targeted surgery required to keep sane.

Yet another from the "I should know better" (and do) files. A little dab of regex will do.

Cleaning up after your SQL mistakes is important. Here's how to do it in a way that minimizes downtime.

From the "I should know better" files. Having predictable user identifiers which are also superfluous is pretty bad, and something I already knew not to do, but hey, worse is better!

Wherein big progress is made.

Selenium is dead. Long live Playwright! Though just at the start of things today, surprisingly good progress has been made already.
https://github.com/teodesian/playwright-perl

Had a desire to add some emojis earlier to a news posting I was doing for teodesian.net. Decided to do a few seconds of googlin' and found a pretty decent looking library for doing this here:

https://github.com/woody180/vanilla-javascript-emoji-picker

Figured I may as well let y'all ride shotgun with me as I added this sucker to my posting UI as such. Hopefully it helps someone out there on the interwebs!