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I make my entire living modernizing various firms' perl stacks. There is a never-ending amount of work for people who are good at modernizing older mod_perl/cgi stacks into psgi, a…

A lot of the "dogmatically tied" comes from experience; it's why the common refrain is that IDE means "It Doesn't Exist" (where you have to fix the code). E.G. a "this is why we ca…

The constitution makes no reference to citizens with regards to what congress can and cannot do. Nearly all these things are couched with "congress shall pass no law" -- the focus …

The core problem with DNSSEC adoption has always been what happens when your ZSK/KSK expires, which it ought to for the same reason SSL certs expire. Rolling this over in an automa…

Back when I worked at TI we had a neat machine that used X-Rays to map and reverse competitor chips (mostly to discover they were duping ours). It would work down to just short of …

Most of the bickering about this or that programming language is no different than "should I buy the bosch or craftsman table saw". Use whatever has the lowest TCO to you that lets…

It's to distinguish between references and non-references. pass-by-reference rather than only COW (such as in some languages) is quite useful. You would prefer *ref like in C? You …

Double colon would make talking about perl even worse (:: is namespace separator) -- it's already bad enough that any namespace starting with D becomes an emoticon in pretty much a…

Drop the therapy and start lifting weights. I'm not kidding. If the problem is that you feel things are gonna be a slow decline from here, then fight it . Make that your new goal, …

In my experience, playwright is a lot, lot better on this than selenium. You can even choose different events to wait for! That said, there's no accounting for developers who think…

Puppeteer does a few more things, but only works for chrome. Both of them are essentially wrapping devtools protocols. AFAIK, much of the playwright approach was guided by trying t…

That doesn't really surprise me to be honest. Most of this is invisible to end-users of selenium, as it's just a hammer they pick up; the struggles of the maintainers is not (nor s…

Cypress appears to have more features dedicated specifically to making testing easier, such as a user interface and various debugging additions and integrations into various other …

Playwright is a breath of fresh air next to selenium. And I maintain the perl selenium client and have written thousands of selenium tests! So much so that I wrote what may? be the…