Category Archives: Planet Larry

planet larry migration

I wrote not too long ago that I was going to give up maintaining Planet Larry and look for a new owner.  I got a lot of offers from a lot of people who were willing to step up and … Continue reading

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new feeds

I’ve been having a slew of issues running Apache on my Linode VPS, which I’m still trying to pin down, so in an attempt to offload some of the usage, I’m now going to use Feedburner to provide the RSS … Continue reading

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new planet larry design

Many thanks to David Molanphy, my brother-in-law, who designed a new theme for Planet Larry.  I just pushed it live, and it’s running on the new server.  Personally, I think it’s awesome. I’ve taken the old theme, which was in … Continue reading

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planet feeds

I’m actually starting to like it when any planet problems pop up, because I’ve been systematically weeding them out one by one. The frequency of one user “spamming” the feed has been going down quite a bit. I think I … Continue reading

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which rss reader do you use?

So, I’m going to try and take a poll here, what program do you use to read RSS / Atom / news feeds? I would have an *actual* poll, but I honestly don’t even know what’s out there, much less … Continue reading

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planet admin stuff

I’m working on cleaning up some planet stuff again, and for Planet Larry I made a small policy shift — if your feed is spitting out partial feeds, I’m not gonna accept it anymore.  Currently it only affected like two … Continue reading

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planet larry google search

Planet Larry has kept archives of posts for about five months now, but I just barely added a Google search form to the side nav so you can … uh, search. It would be nice to have the archived pages … Continue reading

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planetlarry.org

I don’t know about anyone else, but everytime I want to go Planet Larry, I still type in planetlarry.org, even though I ditched the domain a few months ago. Well, I got tired of it not working, so I re-registered … Continue reading

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planet larry: maintenance cleanup

I’m still getting overdue stuff taking care of, this time in Planet Larry. I’ve finally cleaned up the scripts and the configs to make it much, much simpler to debug and run the update process. Not only that, now it … Continue reading

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planet, packages: small bugfixes

I took a few minutes today and cleaned up a few small bugs on Planet Larry and friends. One thing I get asked for every now and then is if I have archives of past posts. Well, I do now. … Continue reading

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