Andy Lester

Make a --debug mode

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What if ack had a --debug mode that showed the decisions it was making? "Ignoring a directory called RCS", and "Skipping this .GIF file" etc.

Try reading line-by-line from the buffer we read in App::Ack::File::may_be_present()

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`may_be_present` reads in 10M of the file, and if it is, then the code that calls it `reset`s the file handle and reads line-by-line. Can we be smart enough to...

Allow sorting search results

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I went searching for `Test` and got 3,052 results. No surprise there. Some of them haven't been updated since the early 2000s. It would be nice to be able to...

Switch to another module than File::Slurp

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File::Slurp will break under Perl 5.30. Switch to something else, if not just writing my own read_file.

New page: Other types of injections

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https://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/comma-separated-vulnerabilities/

https://blog.r2c.dev/2020/preventing-sql-injection-a-django-authors-perspective/

Add a page for Javascript

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HTML 5 has localstorage and SQL database functionality that lets you write Javascript code that will be susceptible to the same pitfalls as any other language.

I think that client-side Node is different enough from local storage that they should be done separately.

New page: Articles about SQL injection

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Show how widespread a problem SQL injection is. https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/sql-injection-vulnerability-nextgen-gallery-wordpress.html

Page: Translations

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Add back a translations page and explain why I removed them from the main site. Explain that anyone is free to translate the site and host it on their own...