I updated my website to fix a broken URL,
restoring my 11-year-old app that makes convenience bookmarklets for the bookmaking service
Pinboard. The app and bookmarklets still work, if you're logged in to Pinboard. The app is built on Perl and the bookmarklet is built on the Javascript library Jquery (an old version, I'm sure) and everything still just works. My URL was broken because I migrated hosts without remembering to install two perl modules (two easy commands on the server to fix that). It's nice to know that some
platforms age gracefully. Perl did not break my app, not did the authors of the Perl modules I built it on. Jquery continues to resolve its old library URL, Pinboard continues to resolve its bookmarklet URLs (which are
API calls). On the Web, this is no small thing (unfortunately).
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