One of the weird(ish) things I'm trying with Pebbling Club is initially building it to run as a single node.js process with no other service dependencies. Really resisting the pull to rope in postgres or redis or anything.

That's feasible(ish) because node comes with SQLite and all kinds of other batteries included. And I can even do background tasks with p-queue and async/await.

I have a hunch that this thing could handle 100s of users before needing to scale horizontally. And I also have a hunch that a single process would make it easier to manage as a self-hosted thing. And even when it has to scale horizontally, I think there's some room for doing a stupid single-primary, many-replica sort of thing at first

And if it ever gets to a point where it needs to handle 1000s of users, it should be "easy" enough to swap out in-built parts for external services with some config and dependency injection. If I build it right, that is

And i keep thinking "I'M DOING SOMETHING!" as I'm hacking away at this stuff. (This may only make sense in my own brain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nED9h8QhuAc

@Mxzzyzx@gaygeek.social I finished SMT IV on Nintendo 3DS years ago. Started SMT V and Persona 5, but never finished either of those

@Osmose maybe you can call in LLM? i don't know if that's like calling in sick or being replaced by an LLM or both

The girl and I voted, now hopefully they don’t burn our ballot drop box 😅 #pdx

@danhon That's the real value metric

Oooof... Why do I keep thinking of Freezepop as "that new band"?

https://www.freezepop.net/product/25th-anniversary/

Another night of cozy couch computing with Cheddars and Catsby. Really helps that I don’t have to move much with this trackball #cats

@maya ohhh, it's been awhile since we made it there, need to go back and fill up on vodka and little dumplings

@twipped Well, as far as I understand it, you also at least need an endpoint to handle POSTs to collect follow requests. That could be done with a very light edge function, though

oh no, do i need to learn elixir now?

I feel like we need many, many more non-verbal UX designers in the world. Give me more buttons. Give me fewer things to talk to. For crying out loud (except not)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/rivians-chief-software-officer-says-in-car-buttons-are-an-anomaly/?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff

Maybe I can make a tactile interface that issues silent voice commands over an audio cable to a chatbot system and then translate its responses back to knob & slider movement.

Kinda like when they made Java classes to abstract away 3270 green screen mainframe interfaces so they could pretend those were just database connections