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GameDev: Hackathon

Next week, starting Friday, there will be a game dev hackathon at casa de Zim. A friend is flying in from out of town and we’re going to jam for a week straight.

Social Card

When developing web applications, or even a personal blog, there’s a good chance content will be shared on social media. When a link is shared, the social media platform will attempt to generate a preview of the content. This preview is called a “social card”.

SQLite WAL

For Pin Sheet Pro, I’m using SQLite as the database (for now). Being a serverless, file-based, database there are challenges to applications that perform frequet writes. Pin Sheet Pro hasn’t gone live yet. When it does, it will be performing a moderate amount of database writes. In order to avoid any possible collisions I’ve decided to enable WAL, or Write-Ahead Logging,