vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan Woot!

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan The time factor can be somewhat mitigated by using async pools in the javascript so the calls aren't strictly serialized.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan Sure, but consider that merely boosting or liking a post from a user of one of these instances is a larger request load than what you're doing here. The bigger concern IMO is that time it would take for a user of your service to make those requests in order to get the data to build the pie chart.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan If it all happens client side in a browser and a few hundred or so people a day, I can't imagine that causing any significant load. The act of someone actually logging in and loading the homepage would likely be more significantly taxing than a curl call to a login endpoint. Is there a platform field in the API metadata response itself? I know #Calckey shows this in the UI and I'm wondering how that is derived.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan Not sure if this is availabile in your data set, but would be cool to include a pie chart by platform (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey, etc) for these connections. I might be able to help with this if it is.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@stefan Neat stuff!

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@kentborg Go was architected in part by Ken Thompson (who co-wrote C with Dennis Ritchie based on Thompson's B), so its roots to C behavior are indeed legitimate.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@brouhaha Go is definitely more verbose if you're comparing it to Python. It is less verbose than Rust or C. Go's error handling is particularly verbose.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@mos_8502 @brouhaha So, it's Cython?

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@witt Development is going to have more overhead because go is more verbose and it's compiled, however, the overhead complexity for deployment is often less since you can compile a standalone binary and compile cross-platform. The deployment environment doesn't need to have go installed where a python deployment is generally going to need to include the interpreter and runtime libraries (it is possible to compile python with pyinstaller, but it's not exactly trivial to set up).

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

If #golang were just a little less verbose, I'd probably use it a lot more.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@witt From a dev perspective, #python will almost always have a quicker "time to live", but that assumes all things being equal, and sometimes the go libraries are more mature than the python ones. This is especially true for container runtime stuff since Docker and Kubernetes, and most things adjacent to them, are written in go.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@brouhaha Go is kind of like C and Python had a baby.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@kentborg Maybe that's why I like Go? It feels very much like a more modern re-imagining of C (where Python is literally a re-imagining of C).

vwbusguy, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

@ike I'm enjoying it so far. Took a day or two to get used to the smaller screen but it doesn't bother me anymore. I love having the headphone jack! One thing I miss from the Samsung is wireless charging but it's not that big of a deal for me. Battery life has been very good.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@mordoc I married into a Scottish-American family. My brother in law just moved back to the states from Glasgow and he's surprisingly not a fan. I bought him some rock shandy to try from Ireland and we'll see how he likes it.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@acdingman Oh, I'm caught up on COVID boosters for a while. Just got a DTAP today and I used to dread them for the soreness.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

Don't get me wrong - I'm still impressed that your website is entirely written in FORTRAN down to the CGI implementation, but that doesn't mean that it's better than another language that could have rendered the same website in 1/5th of the time it took you to write all that.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago

@acdingman Sounds like you're on your way!