Post 3491148 by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
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 (DIR) Post #3490138 by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2019-01-29T00:37:54.540723Z
       
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       Man I forgot how straightforward writing CGI scripts is
       
 (DIR) Post #3490534 by jonw@mastodon.technology
       2019-01-29T00:47:31Z
       
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       @izaya Writing my first CGI script was magical. Totally changed the web for me. I was so clueless I wrote it in C++.
       
 (DIR) Post #3490535 by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2019-01-29T00:51:59.683593Z
       
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       @jonw I used to use it a lot for my blog but I've since replaced it with a static generator.All of a sudden I need to write something with a web interface so I broke out LuaWant the POST data? Read stdin! The request type? It's an environment variable!Excellent. I love it.
       
 (DIR) Post #3491147 by jonw@mastodon.technology
       2019-01-29T00:59:03Z
       
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       @izaya We use LUA a lot at work but not me, specifically. But I see how flexible and powerful it is. I’m looking for excises to learn it.
       
 (DIR) Post #3491148 by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2019-01-29T01:12:37.191768Z
       
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       @jonw if you're into Minecraft there's an excellent mod for it that adds Lua-programmable computers called OpenComputers which I am quite fond of