Developer Update: October 22, 2021 (Patreon)

Hewwo!

Sorry for the slow updates. About 3 weeks ago at the end of September / early October I had a breakthrough COVID-19 infection. Needless to say: it sucked. I'm still coughing, but I am improving.

I took my sick time to step back and begin working on the mobile app again and ended up throwing it out to start over. This time I'm approaching it differently and with better tooling. This includes moving from Redux to MobX, which makes way more sense. It also means moving from JS to Typescript, which provides much cleaner type hinting. It's much more manageable in the new format. I'll continue working on this as it's been a fun project. I am still hoping to get it out early next year.

Cloudflare Images = Too Expensive

The math does not work for this change, unfortunately. Our image consumption is just way too high. It seems like we'll most likely be doing a different image pipeline where lambda does the heavy lifting alongside ShortPixel to clean up the server layer and remove unnecessary jobs.

We'll see!