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Tinker Tuesday for July 29, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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One of the milestones I set for myself is to have a replacement for my Nitter instance, which has been acting up lately. The road was quite bumpy, between the retarded SQL performance, and my brilliant idea to first import the Twitter data over the API, and then present it in chronological order. I thought I was saving myself duplicated code by fetching and rendering data the same way, whether I'm browsing the Twitter API, or the more generic entries of my application, but I recently realized this was doomed to failure, as Twitter does not return data chronologically. So I opted for rendering the API data directly, while importing it in the background. It went faster than expected, and things have never ran smoother. A few more tweaks and I might reach my milestone.

How have you been doing @Southkraut?

Some time spent tinkering, but sadly no progress.

Right now I just have a bunch of objects that aren't where I want them to be, aren't behaving like I want them to behave, and I can't seem to get a handle on the why or how. I'm trying different ways of debugging this, but so far I'm not getting a proper grip on it.