It's been nearly 10 years since I created this blog and for that entire time it's been using the Pelican static site generator. It's been pretty good, but lately I've wanted to improve and change some things, so I've taken the opportunity to rewrite it from mostly scratch. b2 is…
I haven't been very good with writing about what I've been working on in SecureDrop-land, but here is: Migrating SecureDrop’s PGP backend from GnuPG to Sequoia over on the SecureDrop website. You should read it, and then come back to read the rest of this. We had been discussing Sequoia…
There was recently a request to generate a report of featured articles on Wikipedia, sorted by length, specifically the "prose size". It's pretty straightforward to get a page's length in terms of the wikitext or even the rendered HTML output, but counting just the prose is more difficult. Here's how…
I landed file upload support in the mwapi (docs) and mwbot (docs) crates yesterday. Uploading files in MediaWiki is kind of complicated, there are multiple state machines to implement and there are multiple ways to upload files and different options that come with that. The mwapi crate contains most of…
I was intending to write a pretty different blog post about progress on mwbot-rs but...ugh. The main dependency of the parsoid crate, kuchiki, was archived over the weekend. In reality it's been lightly/un-maintained for a while now, so this is just reflecting reality, but it does feel like a huge…
This past weekend at Wikipedia Day I had a discussion with Enterprisey and some other folks about different ways edit counters (more on that in a different blog post) could visualize edits, and one of the things that came up was GitHub's scorecard and streaks. Then I saw a post…
