Sun, 07 Jan 2007
The del.icio.us de.dup.er
I like del.icio.us and I've been using it
for a long while now, but what used to be one of the more handy features,
the ability to subscribe to a tag, like 'ruby' or 'linux', has gradually
become less useful as more and more people find old links or repost the
same link. Again. And again. And, well, you get the idea.
So I wrote the del.icio.us de.dup.er script, a small perl cgi that sits between you and del.icio.us and weeds out any duplicate links. I don't know how useful it'll be for other people but I installed it and when comparing the amount of posts it returns to those in the unfiltered tag I'm already seeing a lot less traffic. This is only the first draft (it needs a little love and a chunk of re-writing) but it works. So I thought I'd post it. To run it you'll need a webserver capable of running perl cgi script, a couple of non-core perl modules and an area on disk where it can write its state; it maintains a single state file for each tag. I considered making it run as a hosted service to remove these preqs but that was more than I need right now.
Notes: Anyone who hits the cgi can force it to update and potentially stop you seeing certain links, I get around this by putting in in a secure (HTTP Auth protected) part of my site. It's also got a timeout built in, a defined number of days after it first logs a site (30 days by default) it'll let it through again. And store it for another 30 days.
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Posted: 2007/01/07 20:40 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Mail Box Stress and Joe Jobbing
If you've tried to email me recently then you may have noticed that my
mail server has been down a lot (or just that I've not responded). Over
the last 10 days Unixdaemon.net was used as the reply-to and bounce
addresses in a LOT of spam, not an uncommon form of a Joe Job but an annoying one
one the less.
The last couple of weeks have been manic and so, while it was a little drastic, the easiest way to prevent my inbox from flooding (and I mean flooding) was to turn my SMTP server off. And add some countermeasures that'll stop this biting me quite so hard in the future. It's back up and running now (and I'm not getting any more bounces) - so overkill can work.
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Posted: 2007/01/07 20:17 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Open Source Questions and the Karma of Answers
I answer a couple of emails that contained questions about code I've
written and in return I get a shiny new release of
WebService::YouTube which fixes a bug I hit. Gotta love the 'net.
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Posted: 2007/01/07 20:09 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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