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sort mutual likes first properly on country pages #nomads
fix feedback box rekt on mobile #nomads
set require end date of trips so PHP 8.1 doesn’t break all the time #nomads trips
speed up #nomads by 16 miliseconds by adding SQLite index on epoch_user_id_closed in notifications.db
cache #nomads filter combo results by hashing the query and saving to for ex nomadlist.com/static/filter-0…, then when you filter JS generates hash, checks if URL exists as cache, if it 404s, it runs query on server, which generates the cache for later as static JSON, this /static/* folder is cached by a Page Rule on Cloudflare to a local CDN near you so that filtering now takes <75ms
increase border-radius from 6px to 12px for buttons too because it’s a new year with new border-radius #nomads
set up new backups with rsync on new Digital Ocean VPS with cheaper 2TB block storage #nomads #remoteok
make new smaller Digital Ocean droplet with a 2TB block storage volume attached to it to use for backing up the Linode VPS because block storage data is 10x cheaper than VPS SSD storage #nomads #remoteok
see Digital Ocean backup fail cause hard drive full #nomads #remoteok
install PHP 8.1 PDO SQLite that will solve SQLite returning STRING type variables with fetchAll() for INTEGER type in DB and fatal erroring because PHP now doesn’t do operations on STRING vars only INTEGER and FLOAT vars #nomads #remoteok
fix tens of bugs with new PHP 8.1 #nomads #remoteok
get fatal Division By Zero errors all over site because date('z')=0 for first day of year (date('z') is "The day of the year (starting from 0) 0 through 365") #nomads #remoteok
move map to right #nomads modal city
pass $2,000,000/year in total sites revenue (without investments), doubling in 8 months after $1M/y in April this year, just in time for new year #nomads #remoteok #rebase #readmake
upgrade all of #nomads permanently to PHP 8.1 and remove all bugs from new strict PHP type rules
install bcadd() bmath PHP 8.1 #nomads
get AJAX load time filtering down to 3 miliseconds (0.003 seconds) with more caching #nomads
get cities/filtering AJAX load time down to 27 miliseconds (0.027 seconds) with some file caching #nomads
fix guy can’t use “shi” in his name #nomads
stop accidental BCC of login link emails to customer support person #nomads
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