Recent Decisions & Mistakes:

“RSS is simple I mean it the name is Really Simple Syndication, how bad can it be?”

Cloud tags with xml-rpc, block tags for aggregation in GMT, PICS for content ratings, exact number of bits in an enclosure tag, and the <textinput> tag??

@WebLS August 2024

“Why did VAAS suddenly disapear from the popular projects section? wtf it comes from the github api directly?”

Github not bothering to mention that they return a max of 30 results per page without ?per_page=100

@This very site July 2024

“Let me see if github pages has a way to handle this normally I’d stick a middleware layer in front”

30 minutes later: “Okay so middleware is impossible but if you inject a bunch HTML file into dist like so you can build legacy redirects”

@Ladbyird July 2024

“Stripe payment handling should only take a day or two to add and test fully”

2 weeks later: “Well it works, I think finally, now please never touch this code again”

@Exakty June 2024

Older mistakes

“We don’t need to test OpenAI API to make sure we catch an API change, they’d never randomly change it”

OpenAI: “0:” your”0:” results”0:” show”0:” that”0:” you”0:” have”0:”

@Exakty April 2024