Scripting News: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Podcast: How I view WordPress . # Started a new support repo for Bingeworthy. # Just found an exponential memory leak at the database level in Bingeworthy. I have never seen one of these in all my years of programming. A data structure that saves a copy of itself in itself. So every time it saved it became exponentially bigger. Until it made the SQL server crash because the JSON object it was storying was over the limit of JSON objects. Crashed the freaking server. Fixed. Feels good. # As part of the conversion of BingeWorthy , I started the database from scratch, but before I did that, I exported all the data and put it in a GitHub repo. This included a JSON file of ratings for each user. For example, this is my file. Remember we used Twitter identity then, davewiner is my Twitter username, just replace my name with yours to see your file, if you were a Bingeworthy user in the past. # I wrote this post in 2023 as Threads was comi...