devdad

Sort yourself out. It’s embarrassing.

1. It was a joke
2. Maybe proof read your messages before you send them. It was FULL of mistakes.

Clearly you need more practice with it 😏

What are you going on about?

Nobody in this thread has said “not all men”.

The top comment said “can people just not suck”, then OP responded saying “actually, in this case, only men suck”.

Men are people too, so “can people not be terrible” is still accurate…

My dog absolutely loathes fireworks. She gets incredibly stressed.

Unfortunately nothing we’ve tried has worked to calm her down. She has several beds, we’ve tried calming sprays you plug into the wall, white noise, the lot.

The funny thing, we tried to desensitise her by playing firework noises on the TV. Even with the TV up full volume, sound bar with full bass, she walks around like nothing is happening - doesn’t care in the slightest.

But the faint sound of a firework (or a wheelie bin moving sometimes) and she’s shit scared.

The 404 should just say the same message as “acronym not found”. It just means the first 4 letters didn’t match a file on the backend; I didn’t enumerate all the blank json for A-Z*4.

Yeah, but it doesn't translate to the site. That's what I'm trying to say :) Your catch above doesn't distinguish between 404 or anything else (5xxx) and displays An error occurred while processing your request. Please try again later for all eventualities. So, regardless whether the acronym wasn't found or there was a genuine server error, the same error message is displayed.

It was a really challenging project to process all the data. As with most large datasets, there are tons of pain points. Like 60% of the time spent was parsing out the song name from the janky first line of metadata. Some pain I dealt with over the project off the top of my head:

I honestly have no idea what you had to drag it all out from, but it looks well implemented from the small amount I played around with it. I've never used Firebase, but it looks like you got it working so that's a good job too.

It's probably just my old man brain that saw you were doing this all with files and it felt odd. That's not to say it's wrong, it's just different to what I would have done.

There's a bunch of advantages to databases, like indexes and partial/fuzzy text matching - but I can certainly understand why you went this route if you needed to keep costs down and didn't want to bother with any DB maintenance.

Well done :)

Yeah, that error message is left over from an earlier version where I sharded by acronym length instead. At that time, there would always be a file. The problem was the files were getting to be huge at the 50 character length (20MB) and performance went to shit on poor mobile connections. So I refactored to shard by first 4, and files dropped down to a few K each and became a lot snappier.

I don't think that's necessarily true. I just tried a random string, and I got the correct 404 response back, but it doesn't look like the app handles that case and it just prints that error on any error.

            .catch(error => {
                console.error("Error fetching or processing the JSON file:", error);
                displayError("An error occurred while processing your request. Please try again later.", tableBody);
            });

Anyway, I wasn't trying to shit on it. Good job :)

I have no skin in the game for the app itself, I just saw your post on the “front page” while scrolling and shitting….

there are 30,000 files

I’m more intrigued why you appear to be managing this with files. Why not use a database?

Edit: you’re also not handling misses very well. I just tried a random string and got the below error. That doesn’t tell me if it was my fault or a server error.

An error occurred while processing your request. Please try again later.

captain obvious

If you’re talking about a SimpleLogin, you CAN email from it. I forget the exact terminology (I can check if you need) but you can generate a forward address that you email and the receiver (Spotify) will see it as If you have emailed from your forwarding address.

Genuine question, why do I keep seeing people reference “hexbears”?

Like, I know it’s a Lemmy instance, but is it more than that? Why do I keep seeing it referenced as if it’s more than just an instance?