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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:fh="http://purl.org/syndication/history/1.0" xmlns:at="http://purl.org/atompub/tombstones/1.0"> <title>Publ</title> <subtitle>A personal publishing system for the modern web</subtitle> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/feed" rel="self" /> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/feed" rel="current" /> <link href="https://busybee.superfeedr.com" rel="hub" /> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/feed?date=2022-12" rel="prev-archive" /> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/" /> <id>tag:publ.beesbuzz.biz,2020-01-07:_all</id> <updated>2024-10-02T02:13:22-07:00</updated> <entry> <title>Publ v0.7.31 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/569-v0-7-31-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2024-10-02T02:13:22-07:00</published> <updated>2024-10-02T02:13:22-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:7d73cb31-dd0c-537b-9f47-07c45ba77692</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>There’s a new release of Publ. There’s no new features, but there’s a <em>huge</em> performance improvement.</p><p>I’d been having some performance issues where on my larger sites, the main Atom feed was taking a long time to render. It didn’t really bother me too much because thanks to aggressive caching it would only cause an occasional slow page load (on the order of a few seconds) every now and then, but I thought there was probably something wrong with the I/O characteristics of how pages render.</p><p>Boy <em>howdy</em> was I wrong about that.</p> <p>The way that Publ handles count-based pagination is to look at the first eligible entry and then traverse forward in the query results until it finds that number of visible ones. There’s a few other fancy things for handling the presence of unauthorized entries for various purposes (for example, <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/api/150-View-object#has_unauthorized"><code>view.has_unauthorized</code></a> and being able to retrieve a limited number of unauthorized entries for friends-only stubs on feeds and so on), but the prevailing assumption was that PonyORM would just have a query result cursor page through every time the iterator incremented on the loop.</p><p>Turns out that, no. No it doesn’t.</p><p>In fact, what was happening was Pony ends up retrieving <em>every</em> possible entry first, before Publ’s auth filtering could run. So on <a href="https://beesbuzz.biz/">my main site</a>, for example, which has around 3300 entries, it was retrieving all 3300 entry rows in order to render the Atom feed.</p><p>So, yeah, no wonder it was taking multiple seconds to render!</p><p>Anyway, now in those situations, Publ just fetches chunks of entries at a time, basically doing its own ad-hoc cursor. It’s not quite as efficient as it would be with a proper database cursor (since now it’s using <code>LIMIT</code>/<code>OFFSET</code> queries) and it could still be way faster if I were using a database layer other than Pony (for example, switching to SQLAlchemy, or eschewing a database entirely as I’ve <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/274-Publ-v0-7-26-released">briefly discussed</a> and <a href="https://beesbuzz.biz/code/3635-Making-a-hash-of-data">rambled</a> about), but wow, this makes a huge performance improvement overall.</p><p>Also, while I was trying to diagnose the issue, I had followed a red-herring path about changing the way that entry auth is stored, and ended up simplifying it in a way which is how I should have done it to begin with. Unfortunately that required a schema change, which means sites need to be reindexed after upgrading. Fortunately that’s still a largely transparent operation.</p><p>Someday I need to do some pretty big overhauls to Publ. But for now I’m happy just keeping it going and making it better all the time.</p><p>Anyway, <strong><em>huge</em></strong> thanks to BearPerson from eevee’s discord for having the curiosity and tenacity to find the <em>actual</em> performance issue.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Publ v0.7.30</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/39-Publ-v0-7-30" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2024-09-06T23:02:27-07:00</published> <updated>2024-09-06T23:02:27-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:0dcd4668-3a8a-51aa-8a69-72f0bbd3e256</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>It’s been a while since I’ve worked on Publ but I got an itch for some new features, so here we are.</p><p>Specifically, there are two super-useful changes:</p><ul><li>You can now <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/324-Templating-Guide#get-entry">retrieve a specific entry from a template</a> (by entry ID, not by path)</li><li>Given an existing <code>entry</code>, <code>category</code>, or <code>template</code> object you can retrieve an image relative to their context, using <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/api/115-Entry-objects#func-image"><code>entry.image</code></a>, <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/api/170-Category-objects#func-image"><code>category.image</code></a> and <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/api/416-Template-object#func-image"><code>template.image</code></a>, respectively</li></ul> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Publ 0.7.29 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/843-Publ-0-7-29-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2024-07-11T14:26:20-07:00</published> <updated>2024-07-11T14:26:20-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:aa3e0f44-9064-58ef-bd07-a8b1252d99e3</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Just a couple of bugfixes in this one:</p><ul><li>Fixed installing Publ without Authl</li><li><code>view.deleted</code> works on paginated views again</li><li>Updated upstream dependencies and fixed some typing-related stuff caused by that</li></ul> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Using MySQL/MariaDB as your backing store</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2024-07-05T11:45:08-07:00</published> <updated>2024-07-05T11:45:08-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:f9569d5a-44b7-549f-b536-1de795fdd8d7</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>How to use MySQL as the index database</p> <p>For smaller Publ sites, the suggested configuration is to use <a href="https://sqlite.org/">SQLite</a> for the index database, as it is low-maintenance and performs very well due to being in-process and taking advantage of the operating system’s disk cache.</p><p>However, sometimes it’s helpful to use a larger-scale database system for the deployment, primarily to gain access to finer-grained locking. This is especially useful in situations where there are many thousands of entries and a desire to keep the site running at full capacity during a reindex.</p><p>Here is a configuration snippet that allows you to use MySQL/MariaDB on your Publ site:</p><figure class="blockcode"><figcaption>app.py</figcaption><pre class="highlight" data-language="python" data-line-numbers><span class="line" id="e764cb1L1"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L1"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="c1"># ...</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L2"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L2"></a><span class="line-content"></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L3"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L3"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="k">if</span> <span class="s1">'DATABASE_URL'</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">:</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L4"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L4"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">urllib.parse</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L5"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L5"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="n">parsed</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">urllib</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">urlparse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'DATABASE_URL'</span><span class="p">])</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L6"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L6"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">match</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">'(.*):(.*)@(.*)'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">parsed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">netloc</span><span class="p">)</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L7"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L7"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="n">db_config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L8"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L8"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'provider'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">parsed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">scheme</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L9"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L9"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">),</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L10"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L10"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'password'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">),</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L11"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L11"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'host'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">),</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L12"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L12"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'database'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">parsed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:],</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L13"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L13"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="c1"># charset and collation must be specified, as the MySQL defaults do</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L14"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L14"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="c1"># not properly support emoji and other 4-byte characters</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L15"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L15"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'charset'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'utf8mb4'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L16"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L16"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'collation'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'utf8mb4_bin'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L17"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L17"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="p">}</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L18"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L18"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L19"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L19"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="n">db_config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">'provider'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'sqlite'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'filename'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">APP_PATH</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'index.db'</span><span class="p">)}</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L20"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L20"></a><span class="line-content"></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L21"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L21"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L22"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L22"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'database_config'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">db_config</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb1L23"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb1L23"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="c1"># ...</span></span></span></pre></figure><p>Then when running the site, set an environment variable such as:</p><figure class="blockcode"><pre><span class="line"><span class="line-content">DATABASE_URL='mysql://username:password@server/dbname'</span></span></pre></figure><p>If migrating from SQLite to MySQL, it is a good idea to create the index first before flipping the configuration:</p><figure class="blockcode"><pre><span class="line"><span class="line-content">DATABASE_URL='mysql://username:password@server/dbname' poetry run flask publ reindex</span></span></pre></figure><p>An alternate way to store the database configuration is to put it into a local <code>db_config.py</code> file, like so:</p><figure class="blockcode"><figcaption>db_config.py</figcaption><pre class="highlight" data-language="python" data-line-numbers><span class="line" id="e764cb4L1"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L1"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="n">db_config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L2"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L2"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'provider'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'mysql'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L3"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L3"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'db username'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L4"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L4"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'password'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'db password'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L5"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L5"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'host'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'localhost'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L6"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L6"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'database'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'my_site'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L7"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L7"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'charset'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'utf8mb4'</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L8"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L8"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'collation'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'utf8mb4_bin'</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb4L9"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb4L9"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="p">}</span></span></span></pre></figure><figure class="blockcode"><figcaption>app.py</figcaption><pre class="highlight" data-language="python" data-line-numbers><span class="line" id="e764cb5L1"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L1"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="c1"># ...</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L2"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L2"></a><span class="line-content"></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L3"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L3"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L4"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L4"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">.db_config</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">db_config</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L5"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L5"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">ImportError</span><span class="p">:</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L6"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L6"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="n">db_config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">'provider'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'sqlite'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'filename'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">APP_PATH</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'index.db'</span><span class="p">)}</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L7"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L7"></a><span class="line-content"></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L8"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L8"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L9"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L9"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="s1">'databse_config'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">db_config</span><span class="p">,</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L10"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L10"></a><span class="line-content"> <span class="c1"># ...</span></span></span><span class="line" id="e764cb5L11"><a class="line-number" href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/deploying/764-Using-MySQL-MariaDB-as-your-backing-store#e764cb5L11"></a><span class="line-content"><span class="p">}</span></span></span></pre></figure><p>but as always it is important to ensure the security of this file; environment-based configuration is traditionally considered to be much easier to secure and prevent mishaps such as accidentally checking it into source control.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Publ v0.7.26 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/274-Publ-v0-7-26-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-08-21T02:45:00-07:00</published> <updated>2023-08-21T02:45:00-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:adaa6960-823e-505d-8783-3d4953e0d95a</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Here’s some new bugfixes and features!</p><ul><li>OpenGraph tags now validate per the W3C validator</li><li>Images can now take a value of <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/335-Image-renditions#link">link=True</a> in order to force a link to the full-size rendition <em>without</em> setting a lightbox gallery ID</li><li>Links will no longer include the template name if it’s the same as the category default (so you no longer need to do annoying things like <code>view.link(template=template if template.name != 'index')</code></li><li>Similarly, path-alias to the <code>index</code> template will now work correctly if the category’s default template is <em>not</em> <code>index</code></li></ul> <p>At some point in the not-too-distant future, two major overhauls are going to need to happen to Publ:</p><ol><li><p><a href="https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Publ/issues/514">Moving away from Pony ORM</a> to something that works with Python 3.11 (possibly SQL Alchemy or even moving to lower-level indexing)</p><p>I really like Pony ORM, but unfortunately some of the functionality I rely on only works with Python 3.10 and earlier, and a fix doesn’t seem likely to happen any time soon. (I’d love to be proven wrong, of course!)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Publ/issues/261">Finally replacing the Markdown processor</a> with something that’s actively-maintained</p><p>Misaka has been in archive mode for quite some time now, as its underlying Markdown implementation (hoedown) is abandoned. It <em>works</em> but it’s unclear how long it’ll stay working, and I’d rather stay ahead of the game.</p><p>Plus, Misaka complicates the build environment for Publ anyway, since on platforms without a native build in pypi, it has to fetch the sources and compile by itself, and this isn’t very friendly to a lot of deployment environments. Having a pure-Python implementaton would make things a lot nicer.</p><p>A more modern Markdown implementation would also enable a bunch of stuff that doesn’t work quite right as-is, like having inline <code><aside></code> and <code><details></code> within an entry. It’d also be a good excuse to finally add a few features I’ve been wanting to do, such as support for inline/sidebar footnotes and opengraph media embeds.</p><p>This would require a complete rewrite of the Markdown processing within Publ, although those changes would at least be fairly self-contained. Unfortunately, a lot of the existing Markdown-handling code is extremely specific to Misaka’s quirks, so this might be something that takes a lot of iteration to get right. In particular, I worry that some of the Publ syntax extensions (particularly image rendition arguments, code block labeling, and multiple-image sets) might be difficult to support in a different engine with different parsing rules.</p></li></ol><p>Also, some recent conversations have led me to realize that Publ’s documentation could be a lot better. If you’re interested in helping out, see <a href="https://github.com/PlaidWeb/publ-site/issues/33">publ-site issue #33</a>.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Webmention.js 0.5.5 released - important security update!</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/789-Webmention-js-0-5-5-released-important-security-update" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-07-13T12:14:38-07:00</published> <updated>2023-07-13T12:14:38-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:4e3d2e46-476b-5800-a94b-fb74eb3c0947</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>There is a <a href="https://huntr.dev/bounties/75cfb7ad-a75f-45ff-8688-32a9c55179aa">known XSS exploit</a> in <a href="https://github.com/PlaidWeb/webmention.js">webmention.js</a> 0.5.4 and earlier. If you are running webmention.js on your site, <em>please</em> update to the latest version!</p><p>Many thanks to <a href="https://huntr.dev/users/tyage">@tyage</a> for reporting this vulnerability (and <a href="https://github.com/psmoros">@psmoros</a> for facilitating the report, as well as running <a href="https://huntr.dev/">huntr.dev</a> which looks like a great security research and reporting platform).</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>v0.7.25 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/18-v0-7-25-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-05-23T03:49:05-07:00</published> <updated>2023-05-23T03:49:05-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:c80e4417-31eb-56ab-aa4c-c2a0a2491b42</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>What’s this, another Publ release? Why, yes! While <a href="https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5391-A-fresh-coat-of-paint">revamping my personal website</a> I came across some additional things that needed some Publ fixes to really work well.</p><p>The changes since 0.7.24 are:</p><ul><li>Consider whitespace-only entry parts (<code>entry.body</code> and <code>entry.more</code>) to be <code>False</code></li><li>Enable cache-control on templates which aren’t user-dependent (such as stylesheets), hopefully cutting down on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content">FOUC issues</a></li><li>Enable an appropriate same-site cookie policy for 2023</li></ul> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Publ v0.7.24 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/637-Publ-v0-7-24-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-05-22T14:21:41-07:00</published> <updated>2023-05-22T14:21:41-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:6d86eee0-0ae3-54fb-ad14-6ba90c2920be</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Latest version of Publ includes:</p><ul><li>New <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/324-Templating-Guide#first_paragraph"><code>first_paragraph</code> HTML filter</a></li><li>A fix to the search indexer allowing it to drop invalid entries</li></ul><p>There was also a minor fix released as 0.7.23 which was to unpin the version of <code>watchdog</code>, which allows Publ to run in debug/hot-reload mode once again.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Publ v0.7.22 released</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/241-Publ-v0-7-22-released" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-05-01T19:18:23-07:00</published> <updated>2023-05-01T19:18:23-07:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:f4aa0834-0242-509a-8bb7-b0992e7748b6</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Here’s a new release of Publ.</p><p>Actually it looks like I’ve been remiss in announcing the last several releases, because each of them just had minor changes! So here’s a bit of a catchup:</p><ul><li>v0.7.19: Pass through rendition arguments (including quality and format) to the fullsize rendition</li><li>v0.7.20: Just a bunch of upstream dependency updates</li><li>v0.7.21: Some shenanigans while trying to figure out how to deal with <a href="https://github.com/ponyorm/pony/issues/668">Pony’s incompatibility with Python 3.11</a>, as yet unresolved</li><li>v0.7.22: <ul><li>Fixed an issue with some transparent images not being detected as transparent due to using uncommon formats (particularly grayscale-with-alpha PNGs in the <code>LA</code> pixel format)</li><li>Changed the way that the <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/manual/706-User-authentication">authentication</a> key gets configured; this was necessary due to an <a href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/issue/500">upstream change in Flask</a></li></ul></li></ul><p>At present there appears to be an occasional issue with how watchdog works (or doesn’t), and I haven’t figured out the rhyme or reason. A pending Publ release will hopefully fix this. My apologies for the inconvenience.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Pushl v0.3.5</title> <link href="http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/2-Pushl-v0-3-5" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /> <published>2023-01-04T20:17:35-08:00</published> <updated>2023-01-04T20:17:35-08:00</updated> <id>urn:uuid:ec83f798-f65b-5c00-bbd7-90e61660aa55</id> <author><name>fluffy</name></author> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Pushl has been updated to be compatible with an API change made in Python 3.11, specifically fixing some functionality which was deprecated in Python 3.8 and which I somehow failed to notice the deprecation warning of.</p><p>Thanks to @seirdy for <a href="https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Pushl/issues/49">bringing this to my attention</a>.</p> ]]> </content> </entry> </feed>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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