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Welp - goodbye WhatPulse stats!

I just learned that we aren’t allowed to use our personal devices for work, so I guess putting in my stats at the sidebar won’t be as impressive! I had gotten used to my setup, and now, I need to muscle-memorize using the Mac as my primary development station. I guess it’s slightly a good thing that I had just used my home office budget to do a few upgrades.

I had just gotten a UGREEN 8K KVM so I can connect my Mac to the primary monitor. I still need a second dual-screen KVM, or and probably a dock, so I can fully transition to the triple monitor setup. I also got myself a new MX Master 3S so I can control my desktop separately from the Mac - being able to simultaneously switch videos or playlists while working!

Do not push to production on a Friday

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Yep, just don’t do it.

You’d think with over 15 years in the industry, I’d have learned this by now, but nope! 1.5 months into my new role, I’d just introduced a production issue on a release that’s supposed to prevent further issues!

Rookie mistake, but the long story short is that I had inherited a large monolith and I thought that the single entrypoint I had touched so far was the only entrypoint to the app!

And so after introducing a change that affects entrypoints (think: middleware setups), I thought that was it. Turns out, the other entrypoints started failing. Thank god for alerts, logs, and DLQ’s!

Remembering Aaron Swartz

I saw this tweet earlier and felt the need to post about Aaron Swartz. Now more than ever, I feel the importance of the things that he fought for. In a world where we have the largest companies scraping the internet and selling you their AIs trained on this data for $20, it just seems so wild what happened to him over 10 years ago.

Saw this in Brooklyn today.

RIP, Aaron. pic.twitter.com/fFXJvyCupZ

— Philipp Tsipman (@ptsi) July 13, 2024

HoloLive at the Dodgers stadium

I don’t watch baseball, but I do watch a couple of VTubers. I consider the culture around sports and the people who enjoy it, especially in the context of people I’ve encountered in my life, the antithesis to the VTubing world - the classic jocks vs. nerds. The crowd reaction, how Twitter lit up during the event, and how this event might have possibly permanently started bridging that gap, all makes me happy.

It’s a similar sentiment to how I feel about @alexisohanian’s efforts to investing in women’s sports. All it really takes is these orgs making that push to bridge gaps in subcultures, and if you do it correctly, the internet will do its job and reciprocate.

Adding a little blip of activity

While messing around with my .plan, I thought it would be nice if I could surface some of my real-time info on the site as well.

Following my thirty days of WhatPulse, I never really paid attention to the app again and it just disappeared in the background. Turns out, WhatPulse has both a Client and Web API that allows you to access either real-time info or pulsed info.

Anyway, here a link to an XML version of my stats. My Astro setup isn’t SSR-enabled, so the fetch I just only happens on build time and is rendered on the sidebar. You can see it in action at the bottom left.

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const response = await fetch(
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  "https://api.whatpulse.org/user.php?user=codewisp&format=json"
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);
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const data = await response.json();
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const {
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  UptimeShort: uptime,
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  Keys: keys,
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  Clicks: clicks,
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  DistanceInMiles: distance,
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  Download: download,
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  Upload: upload,
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} = data;
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const distanceInKm = distance * 1.609344;