busybee fluffy rambles Notes

All dimensions are in Imperial units.

I’ve been getting a lot of spammy substack subscriptions that I never asked for, yeah, and it’s super annoying. Substack doesn’t seem to give me any opportunity to flag them as spam, either. It seems like Substack might have some “import followers” functionality that they never actually bothered to secure against spamming.

Does anyone know of/use an HTTP caching proxy, which can read/write cached responses to disk? Trying to reduce the overhead on an external service (during CI/CD) and allowing caching between runs

Squid! It’s good enough for Amazon’s image CDN fleet so it should be good enough for you too.

This search engine seems pretty cool. So far the catalog appears to only have human-submitted feeds, though. I’ve already submitted a couple of mine, and hopefully more folks get on board with it.

I find this video incredibly relatable. I’ve not been formally diagnosed with any version of EDS but I definitely have some sort of hypermobility disorder, and it’s definitely related to my fibromyalgia diagnosis. Everything she shares in her story is super relatable. Including the specific experiences with physiotherapists and being doubted by every doctor, and everyone blaming me being “out of shape” or having a “weak core.”

This is way too real

I have nothing helpful to add here except to say, Javascript’s undefined/null duality continues to be a mistake.

(But also, anything that relies on that duality has also made a mistake.)