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  • 30th June 2024

Including remote data in a MediaWiki article

A few months ago I needed to include some data — that was generated and held remotely — into a MediaWiki article. Here's the solution I chose

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  • 22nd June 2024

Thoughts on commenting facilities for this site

This site, being a static one, presents some challenges with regard to accepting comments from its readers. There's also a bunch of comments that already exist on the legacy site. I have some thoughts about what I should do about this

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  • 20th June 2024

Mass redirects with Apache RewriteMaps

Part of this blog migration demands a lot of Apache redirects, made a bit easier by RewriteMap

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  • 6th May 2024

Link shortener, part 2

In the previous article I had some thoughts about link shorteners, and how I might try to implement one as a means to learn some Rust. Since then I've made some progress and pushed it to GitHub

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  • 28th April 2024

Musings on link shorteners, UUIDv7, Base58, …

Yesterday I started thinking about maybe learning some Rust and as part of that I thought perhaps I might try to implement a link shortener

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