Yep, and I had a whole bunch ready to show off! I've even given talks about them at conferences! B^>

Do you have slides posted anywhere or a video of one of your talks that you could share?

FOSDEM unplanned(!) lightning talk (video and PDF):

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6839-ligh...

Also see main working page:

https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

I can point you to bits of config (it's a bit scattered in my blogs at the moment) like this:

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-83.html#202...

Thank you!

Me too. I went DEEP into mod_rewrite, mod_proxy and friends in the early 2000's. It's a dangerous place to put too much logic, but also incredibly powerful. On multiple occasions, I used it to solve problems in a couple hours that would've taken the engineering team weeks or months to address.

Can you say more about this? It sounds really interesting!

I'm curious if there is a useful connection between Apache's rule and other term rewriting. Some sort of static analysis? If there is a interesting database of them, I'd add it.