Hoodmaps

suggest to "fake" a phone call to the Maptiler sales guy after discovering that sales guys want to do calls because they get paid bonuses for doing more calls, so we can actually try do it over text but we just run a fake call so he gets his money

2024-01-19 20:42:05 UTC

levelsio

protect

#hoodmaps db, if hourly data queue (drawings added or tags added) gets too big it means 1) someone is spamming to crash the db, 2) we're viral; in both cases flush the data so just ignore it

2024-01-10 15:52:24 UTC

levelsio

make new pool for

#hoodmaps with PHP 8.1 and to track performance in New Relic

2024-01-07 12:20:52 UTC

levelsio

enable

#hoodmaps editing again after 1 year no edits because SQLite db trouble

2024-01-07 11:44:41 UTC

levelsio

set SQLite cache size to 64mb

2024-01-07 11:37:00 UTC

levelsio

hide minor roads

#hoodmaps until zoom level reaches high to clean up map

2023-12-20 11:45:47 UTC

levelsio

relaunch

#hoodmaps with MapLibre.org because Mapbox is too expensive

2023-12-19 14:02:59 UTC

levelsio

make

#hoodmaps colors work with MapLibre

2023-12-19 13:43:33 UTC

levelsio

get

#hoodmaps tags working with MapLibre

2023-12-19 13:32:17 UTC

levelsio

try MapLibre.org for

#hoodmaps with MapTiler.com tiles

2023-12-19 12:49:31 UTC

levelsio

get full Mapbox refund for $11,000 bill to the level of the normal bill it would be

2023-12-02 11:35:20 UTC

levelsio

get message from Mapbox about $11,000 bill

2023-12-01 22:27:38 UTC

levelsio

ask Mapbox to refund the $11,000

2023-12-01 18:54:49 UTC

levelsio

get 1,000+ users per second on

#hoodmaps and $11,000 Mapbox bill

2023-12-01 18:41:10 UTC

levelsio

see Map loads and thus costs go down after not redirecting city with a map load on frontpage but without

2023-11-19 20:45:04 UTC

levelsio

remove 5x Uptimerobot alerts that load

#hoodmaps every N minutes causing 200,000 map loads for a robot and $$$ Mapbox costs

2023-11-17 18:24:38 UTC

levelsio

save 50% of Mapbox costs or $600/mo by not loading the frontpage default city Lisbon and then checking GPS of browser and then redirecting to city but instead redirecting to the city from a blank page if GPS enabled and otherwise redirecting to default city Lisbon