snark

• Website: www.snarkout.org/
• About: I hack on Perl and Movable Type.

Recent Actions

• Commented on What Can We Improve?
  kmx, that's a result of the migration data loss that we experienced last week, and shouldn't be an issue going forward....
• Commented on Lock me away
  TheSchwartz's behavior is to provide a default expected finish time, and if a the completed call hasn't occurred by then, to free the job. I believe that Beanstalkd works the same way. I'm not quite sure what architecture you're imagining...
• Commented on push my @entries,<<EOE;
  Filed as a feature request on the prettifying plugin's GitHub page....
• Commented on FAIL
  It's not MT per se - it's that the server is running close enough to the bone that operations like fork() fail sporadically, causing basic functions to error out. It seems to crop up most often in page rebuilding....
• Commented on www.perl.org - redesign
  It looks really, really good. Just a gigantic improvement!...
• Posted HTML::Tidy quicky to snark

  Yay - my pull request got merged in. People trying to build on OS X should use the GitHub master until Andy gets his updates onto CPAN.

• Posted In praise of Try::Tiny to snark

  Try::Tiny is one of those tools that feels like it should always be in your toolbox. Handling exceptions in Perl is awkward; Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C all provide native try syntax. Perl does, mostly, via eval {} blocks, but it's hinky. Errors coming out of the…

Comment Threads

• lukec commented on Lock me away

  We moved our job queue for Socialtext over from some shitty home-grown system to TheSchwartz and it's super awesome for us. We use TheSchwartz::Moosified which is actively maintained.

  It seems really great. Sorry to hear you need to re-invent another system.

• bart commented on What Can We Improve?

  (HTML tags for style?? WTF...)

  When I tried to register from a user blog, it kept complaining about "text is wrong". After several futile attempts I tried again from the front page, and this time it showed a captcha. Aha!

  So, when trying to register from a user page, it doesn't show a captcha.

  And yes, Javascript was enabled.

• James commented on www.perl.org - redesign

  Do we really need sIFR on the page headers? Wouldn't images or plain marked up text work just as well without the requirement of flash? Presumably you could use a script with GD to convert the text+font choice into an image. But turning off javascript+flash produces quite decent looking headers anyway, whereas gnash chokes on the sIFR flash, and I would prefer to have javascript enabled on *.perl.org (e.g., I need it on to submit this comment)

• Ranguard commented on www.perl.org - redesign

  It's on my list to remove - just haven't had time.

  We had a wackier font originally, but I agree the difference isn't enough to justify the extra feature.

  Leo

• Ranguard commented on www.perl.org - redesign

  It's now been removed.