How many recent authors on CPAN?
Sorry, I couldn’t fit this in a tweet.
Yanickwas concerned about the Perl CPAN.
Sweet meejus. Visiting CPAN these days feels like entering the gloomy, foreboding halls of Moria. :’-(
So I grabbed the authors of the last 5,000 releases and counted authors, using Mojolicious and the MetaCPAN API.
Code Sample
$ export MCP_LATEST='https://fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/_search?q=status:latest&fields=author&sort=date:desc&size=5000'
$ http $MCP_LATEST > _search.json
$ perl -Mojo -E 'say c(j(f("_search.json")->slurp)->{hits}{hits}->@*)->map( sub { $_->{fields}->{author} } )->uniq->size . " authors made the last 5000 releases"'
974 authors made the last 5000 releases
Downloaded the file with httPie because I felt bad hammering MetaCPAN with -Mojo g() while sorting out the rest of the :v:one-liner:v:.
I have no idea if these results are good or bad, but I half-expected less than 100 authors.
Getting useful information like spread of release dates is left as an exercise for the reader.
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 01:47
at 1:30am they’re all good ideas
From Dotfiles to Org File
2020-04-28 From Dotfiles to Org File
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 08:56
I’m sure I need to be busy doing stuff but zoning out and staring at trees is pretty good too.
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 14:11
YAY A HAVE-TO-DO IS DONE
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 18:05
using Org Mode to configure Taskwarrior feels very much on brand for me
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 20:55
Somebody mentioned Steely Dan
#NowPlaying
Steely Dan — Can’t Buy a Thrill
https://album.link/i/1440496279
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 21:02
Instead of mapping the data to tables right away, I’m figuring out what questions I want to ask about the data first.
Getting a little smarter about schema design.
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 21:24
@genehack Oh nice! I was just pondering the advice advice while looking at hooks for Babel, and decided to skip the hook until I understood it better.
This helps!
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 21:49
Pretty obvious follow-up to Steely Dan if you ask me
#NowPlaying
Die Antwoord — Ten$ion
https://album.link/us/i/1240204028
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 22:20
birbsite latency making the fediverse look pretty good tonight
hackers.town: 2020-04-28 Tue 22:31
Got about a dozen topic threads I want to blog about, and it’s taken me most of the day to figure out the one with the fewest “new topic” dependencies.