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This has been an interesting year! When the pandemic
came and lelt US all housebound
used it as an excuse [0
do some remedial work Id been dreading
moving
Pinboard onto modern versions of PHP and MySQL: Things
had gotten t0 the point where
couldn't even run
for-
bug identical
of the site on
modern laptop
and the
servers themselves were overdue for system upgrades:
Much of the core code on the site dated back t0 2009-2010
and was written by Past Me
vindictive , inscrutable
nemesis who devoted his life t0 sabotaging Present Me_
Past Me laying his snares in 2009_
Doing this on
live system is like performing kidney
transplants on
playing mariachi band
The best case is
thal no one nolices
change in the music; you chloroform
the players one at
time and try t0 keep
steady hand
while the band plays on: The worst case scenario is that the
music stops and there is no way t0 unfix what you broke,
just an angry mob_
It is very scary:
But
got it donel It helped in this process that
was in
Japan,
since
could do most work at night while my
USIEuropean customers slept or wept into their phones or
whatever it is people do at night nowadays.
The site is now on
2020 foundation (specifically; it's on
PHP
and
current MySQL); and with everything less
brittle
can start
making bigger changes. One of those is t0
make the site look okay on mobile phones
now that /m
finally convinced they aren't
fad. You can see the
beginnings of this reworking on the about page and in other
corners of the site_
Another is t0 finish the new API: The current one was
designed t0 be
drop-in replacement for the old Delicious
API and lacks important features, like any way t0 say
show
me stuff that has changed since timestamp X"
or interact
with Pinboard features that weren't present in Delicious:
Another analogy I'd use for this kind of upgrade work is
clearing
disused garden: In the process you may unearth
remarkable stuff-
an old wagon wheel;
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