Same feeds, less spam
I subscribe to both blogs.perl.org and ironman.enlightenedperl.org, so whenever "JT Smith" posts something, I receive 2-3 copies, when I would rather receive 0. Today, I finally took a few minutes to fix this with one of the few useful things Yahoo has ever created: Pipes. Enjoy Perl news with less spam (RSS).
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Yes! The JT Smith posts annoy me to no end, and most of all because of the broken default title because he didn't enter one: "I'm happy to announce that...".
They're far less annoying (though I still wouldn't call them interesting) on the official YAPC::NA blog.
The "problem" is it now gives me lots of posts in what I presume to be Japanese, which are just as bad.
Thanks, educated_foo. Subscribing...
The Perl Iron Man feed does contain quite a bit of non-English posts, but I think a significant portion of posts is still in English.
Blocking "perlcodesample" and "Daisuke Maki" seems to block most of the Japanese traffic.
I'd also block szabgab, or spammy gabby as I like to call him. Another source to include is perlsphere.net and reddit.com/r/perl and with Yahoo Pipes, you might want to use the unique operator to prevent duplicate headlines from the different sources. There's also a string translator filer, which could solve the foreign language issue.
Thanks for the hint on "unique" -- I wanted that operation, but didn't know it was there.
I've also, with some hesitation, added szabgab to the spam list. IME he's not so much a spammer as a tire(some|less) self-promoter.
Apologies for the recent updates, which created a bunch of "new" articles. I think I'm done with those: the basic filtering seems to work, though I'll keep filtering non-English authors as they post. I have nothing against non-English posting on these sites, but I only read English and French.
I just noticed that your feed inludes posts that are 5 years old. For example: "XML::Tiny released", which links to a post from 26 Jan 2007
It looks like Perlsphere is confused by Cantrell's feed (it doesn't pick up summaries, either), and sends the confusion on down the line. Argh.
Nevermind. At least according to Safari's RSS reader, many (but not all) of the articles aggregated by Perlsphere are given the current date. I guess I'll just take that out for the moment. Blergh.