Quick update on https://dev.feedtube.com - it's looking very similar to last week, but in the background it's now reusing a lot of things so you don't get things like a different preview card for a site on the index page and in the search results.

It's still pretty snappy, which is nice, but I think it's leaning really heavily on caching right now and it'll start to come apart when we have hundreds of thousands of posts, instead of tens of thousands, but we'll see!

Next, we need to start automatically pulling some extra meta info that the feeds don't contain!

#FeedtubeDev

It took him a while, but Meech finally figured out how laps work. This is great, but now I have to deal with this when I'm trying to work.

#caturday

Chinwag going down for some quick maintenance shortly, which I have a convenient opportunity.

EDIT: Done, I think. Might need to bounce some things one more time later, let's see.

Yesterday, to test a change I made to Feedtube over my lunch break, I installed Redis on this laptop and ran *almost* the entire application on it, as well as a browser and VS Code.

I stopped short of installing PostgreSQL as well because I wasn't testing full-text search and the sqlite database was good enough.

This little thing is a champion.

It's taken over a month to jump through all the hoops and get to the point where Google is sending me my Pixel 4a battery "refund" or whatever, but apparently my $80 is in transit to my bank account now.

It took slightly less time for my $18 replacement battery to arrive from AliExpress. Now all I need to do is ...

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+4a+Battery+Replacement/139563

oh jesus gonna put a whole day aside for that fuckery that's not a today job hahaha