Some days I miss working on this site. I hold a lot of great memories of working with GoodnightPanda, crushing some insane bugs, completely changing the infrastructure, and building new features.

I remember one was introducing the caching subsystem. When the site only had like 50 accounts in it, the performance absolutely TANKED to where it would take sometimes 2 whole minutes to load your main timeline. Turns out the bottleneck was in the friends system itself, making several hundreds of queries to the database to get the latest friendship statuses from each profile.

I told Panda my plan to introduce Redis to cache a ton of the work being done every page request and he just told me to go for it. Couple days and several hundred lines of code later, timelines and pages were suddenly loading within milliseconds. We all waited for when the site would slow to a crawl again and.. it never happened. It’s still running on the same caching system I built all those years ago, and running smoooooooorh as glass as far as I can see.

I’ve got a few more stories like this one of anyone’s interested.

Until next time, cheers 🍻

Ever found yourself in a situation where you’ve got a bunch of points to upgrade your gear and almost if not all of your gear is upgradable, and you hit an immediate wall of decision fatigue trying to figure out what you want to upgrade

There’s no consequences to any of it, but like I can’t make up my mind and I’ve spent most of my session bombing around in the menus 😂

There really is nothing more infuriating than finally taking down the boss that's been giving you trouble, just for that boss's last lingering shot to find it's way to you and kill you before the game recognizes the battle is done and you're the winner. Time to do it all over again.

Reminder of the worlds greatest beer commercial ever

More gaming content soon, been plinking around in Counter-Strike: Source again, and theHunter Call of the Wild

Stay tuned

https://youtu.be/_Y7fHQiGkH0

How my time with #XCOM2 is going

Me: *Fires up XCOM 2, all excited, New Game
XCOM2: *each enemy that can fire at my height advantaged half and full cover units, lands a crit, and ends my game in a total of three turns
Me: *questions everything about my life choices leading me to this moment

*vomits with malicious intent

Genuinely difficult not to be excited for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoNTPJgP9Ns

Had a bit of fun last night and fired up #CallOfDuty again, with Shotguns.