Troglodyne LLC

Troglodyne LLC Identical Twin Programmers operating out of Houston, Texas specializing in Perl, HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

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08/22/2024

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Those of you who don't lurk the various perl5 groups on social media or P5P may be unaware that there are a number of problems with CPAN, largely with regard to how namespaces are doled out. Essentially the first distribution to claim it gets to squat there forever, whether yo

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08/22/2024

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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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07/15/2024

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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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01/27/2024

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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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10/13/2023

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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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04/13/2023

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Making money obviously. The question of course is how. I believe the straightest path from here to there is spam's more reputable cousin, SEO affiliate marketing. These online plagarists have conquered the top of the sales funnel for scribblers quite thoroughly. It is for t

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01/19/2023

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Services such as mastadon and nostr are doing way, way too much. Why in the hell would you want to get into the content management and distribution game when we already have really great systems for doing that? If you want something with a chance of working, you need to do it

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09/08/2022

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The idea of the decentralized ID folks is to have some means to identify an online entity is who they say they are, mostly to comply with the orwellianly named Bank Secrecy Act and it's many international equivalents imposing some level of "know your customer" (read: snitching

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09/05/2022

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In short, it's because spammers use Judo throws against the mail providers who, in their exhaustion overreact. Generally during a flood of spam what providers will do is whack an entire /24 of IPs, taking the "Kill 'em all and let god sort them out" strategy. It is for simila

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08/22/2022

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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

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05/02/2022

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I read a Warren Buffet quote the other day that sort of underlines the philosophy I try to take with my programs given the option: "We try to find businesses that an idiot can run, because eventually an idiot will run it." This applies inevitably to your programs too. I'

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