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The "Mastodon Server Hug"

bubsmeany

Posted about my fun little project here on Mastodon and learned about the "Mastodon Server Hug" the hard way..

But before I talk about that, I'd be remiss not to mention that Microsoft 3D emojis are open source! Sure, I shit on Microsoft plenty, but this is kinda cool of 'em honestly... so I'ma use 'em in my blog! I need to make some "short cuts" to my faves, but man this new passion software is already taking too much of my time!

Anyway, onto the "Mastodon Server Hug"...

I ran this little blog boi off of a 1gb instance at Digital Ocean when I excitedly posted about it to Mastodon.... and instantly... cataclysmic failure! Like within seconds. So what happened?

Well, I have a not-alot-but-a-few-more-than-most amount of followers on the Masto, and the way the Fediverse operates sent an immediate fudge-ton of sniffing traffic straight to my door (verifed by my Digital Ocean dashboard + apache logs)! Apparently this is a somewhat well known issue that can even upend much larger sites than my cute little blog boi here.

This whole ordeal did help me find some caching issues in my code, so that's a win.. I guess... I tried to ramp it up to 2gb after fixing the caching issue and gave myself another "fedihug" and encountered near identical issues...

..so now my goal is to keep tweaking my code and raising my scalable server GB's to a point it can handle such nonsense if when I post again....

Anwho.. that's it.. that's the post!

2025-02-19 05:19:33

INTRO

Welcome to my undistinguished ass blog...

bubsmeany

You probably stumbled here from Bluesky wondering -

What in tarnation is Undistinguished.com?

The simple answer is : it's my personal blog that I created using a simple ass, homecooked blogging software package of mine (eYap) leveraging Jenkwerx (a Python web framework I originally made fom my online horse racing game - eHorseracing.com).

Furthermore - it's me, Mike (aka Bubs Meany), and it's also my overall approach to the interwebz. Call it my attempt to harken back to the halcyon days of WWW (and, prior to that, BBS instances).. before overabundant commercialization, page bloat, addictive algorithms, political clout chasing techbros, advertising-over-content, crypto and NFT scams, morale-crushing phony influencers, and AI enshitified almost all of what was one a great thing.

..so now I'm trying to create primarily simple, low code, easy-to-use web sites and frameworks in Python. The goal is to have to rely as little of "other folks shit" as possible going forward.

So this is a live example of my blogging software, eYap. To keep it low maintence and reslient, I am not using a (formal) database. Instead, I am leveraging file naming schemes and notable memory caching to help keep things fast. I'll be expanding things soon to include pagination, previews, dark/light mode, a link aggregator, RSS feed, categories, and some stuff like that. I may even integrate ActivityPub down the road (I have a lot of the code already written, but integrating it will be a bear). But what I have zero appetite to do is add ANY cross-site tracking cookies, big javascript/css framework packages, or especially a "reply to blog" portion (so if you like/hate what I say go out to the Fediverse or Bluesky and @ me - my handles are at the bottom of this page).

I'll make both eYap and Jenkwerx FOSS when I get further along but, honestly, I'm not sure if I have the energy to do a formal repo thing 'cause tech folks can sometimes be a surly pack of motivational vampires and I got no time for that type of drama in my life.

As for what you'll get here - a whole buch of random stuff (tech, comics, music, and other mind dumps). For now it's gonna be one big page but, again, categories, previews, and pagination will hopefully be on the short term horizon.

Until then - thanks for stopping by!

Bubs Meany

2025-02-17 21:54:05