• 2025.05.16 in #721 Monitoring a Plack Application with SlapbirdAPM
  SlapbirdAPM is a free and open-source application performance monitoring (APM) platform specifically designed for Perl web applications.
• 2025.12.01 in #750 The Ghost of Perl Developer Surveys Past, Present, and Future
  The article demonstrates sophisticated understanding of developer tooling ecosystems and community trends. The comparison between 2009-2010 surveys and the 2025 results shows deep insight into how Perl development practices have evolved while maintaining continuity.
• 2026.01.24 in #757 I wrote a Plack handler for HTTP/2, and it's now available on CPAN :)
  Features of Plack-Handler-H2: * Full HTTP/2 spec via nghttp2; * Non-blocking via libevent; * Supports the entire PSGI spec; * Automatically generates self-signed certs if none are provided as args;
• 2026.06.27 in #779 Introducing HTML::Composer and general musings about Perl HTML templating
  Rawley writes: 'Perl has some great templating libraries for HTML. Most of them are pretty fast, and do what you want. However, they all share a common "problem", they make me write HTML. I'm a Perl developer, I like writing Perl, I want to write Perl, so when I have to switch contexts to HTML it annoys me.' HTML::Composer is the answer.

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