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Perl Template Toolkit

Perl Template Toolkit

The definitive guide to Perl's defacto standard templating system.

2003

Andy Wardley, et al.

Andy Wardley, Darren Chamberlain, et al.

Stories

Dave Cross

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Jun 22

Why Did Keir Starmer Resign?

[I really don’t consider myself a political pundit, but a few (ok, two) people have asked for my opinion on this, so I thought it was worth…

Starmer resigns

Dave Cross

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Apr 28

How I Cross-Post Blog Articles (Without Making It Complicated)

Someone asked me on LinkedIn recently how to cross-post blog content from a GitHub Pages site to places like Medium, dev.to and LinkedIn.

How I Cross-Post Blog Articles (Without Making It Complicated)

Dave Cross

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Apr 26

Use Your Powers Only for Good, Clark

I got a piece of spam the other day.

Use Your Powers Only for Good, Clark

Dave Cross

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Apr 6

An Interesting Note Concerning Interest (or How the Sixth Day of April Came to Have an Altogether…

The Diary of Sir Peregrine Blatherwick, MP for Little Wittering (Private. Not for publication, lest my constituents discover what we…

An Interesting Note Concerning Interest (or How the Sixth Day of April Came to Have an Altogether…

Dave Cross

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Jan 26

Notes App, Locked

(excerpts from a private diary recovered on a cracked iPhone, case stickered with glitter stars and a faded tour laminate)

Notes App, Locked

Dave Cross

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Jan 5

Retirement isn’t a date, it’s a dial

How to make work optional long before you reach pension age.

Retirement isn’t a date, it’s a dial

Dave Cross

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Nov 16, 2025

MS Fnd in a Modl

Or, The Day the Corpus Collapsed

MS Fnd in a Modl

Dave Cross

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Sep 13, 2025

A Radiohead story

I’ve liked Radiohead for a long time. I think “High and Dry” was the first song of theirs I heard (it was on heavy rotation on the…

A Radiohead story

Dave Cross

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Mar 23, 2025

Building a website in a day — with help from ChatGPT

A few days ago, I looked at an unused domain I owned — balham.org — and thought: “There must be a way to make this useful… and maybe even…

Building a website in a day — with help from ChatGPT

Dave Cross

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Mar 16, 2025

How I build websites in 2025

I built and launched a new website yesterday. It wasn’t what I planned to do, but the idea popped into my head while I was drinking my…

How I build websites in 2025

Dave Cross

Dave Cross

he/him

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Geek, Fintech, SEO, Lefty. Feminist, Atheist. Skeptic. Rationalist. Secularist. Humanist. Republican (UK Meaning!). Londoner. Music lover. Writer. Genealogist.

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