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- Good article on website perf: https://doordash.engineering/2022/08/30/doordashs-lessons-on-improving-performance-on-high-traffic-web-pages/
- Garden.
- Started planning the connection of aquarium + garden. Problem is marine. Saltwater aquaponics is tough. You have two options:
- Filter out the salt on the aquarium exit AND re-salt on return. Very difficult.
- Use saline-tolerant plants. Algae and seaweed obviously work. Others include barley and rice. Nothing like my freshwater garden.
- Harvested a bunch. Chive, endive, cabbage, purple basil, red sails, deer tongue, black seeded simpson, dragon tongue bean.
- Removed the old borage, cauliflower. Pruned all others.
- Watered and nourished snake plants.
- Still waiting for some big multimonths: lavender, cauliflower, celery.
- Notes for later: bean and borage needed a ton of height. The others classified as tall are prune-able to keep in short sections: cabbage, basil, cauliflower, chive.
- Planted new mint, dill, chamomile.
- Massage Envy today (with sunburn!) – Basically have used 4, paid for 4 more, and have 4 remaining to be billed (of the original membership commitment, one year).
- You have 60 days after cancellation to use any credits accrued.
- There’s freeze (where you can’t use your banked credits) and freeze+ (where you can). Freeze is free, freeze+ is $20/mo.
- When I tried to pause the service, he basically put me on freeze+ but for free? And gave me a free credit? Not sure.
- I can always do a 90min massage to burn through credits faster at my current attendance, since that consumes 1.5.
- Dosed the aquarium with live purple and pink coralline algae spores.
- Seeing purple or pink in the aquarium is a good sign that it’s maturing well. It’s a specific kind of coralline algae. You’ll see it on the live rock, snail shells, hermit crabs, etc. It looks good, competes with other algae, makes it easier for coral to spread, many benefits.
- This algae is calcareous. It consumes both calcium and magnesium to grow, just like the corals in the tank. A little higher alkalinity will accelerate the coralline algae growth.
- Lower temperature and lower ph will slow this process.
- Urchins (and some snails) eat coralline algae. Growth will slow if you have urchins.
- If you see these precursors, your tank is maturing well and you’ll see purple/pink in a few months: (1) hard green algae (2) “chickenpox” (white spots) on the live rock.
- You see this in a normal tank at about 9 months. You may accelerate it by directly adding spores, like I did today. Not necessary, but helpful since NYC water is a bit on the acidic side and I have 2 urchins.
- Supercontest.
- Got ready for the 2022-2023 season. Closed https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt/supercontest/-/issues/154.
- Added the ssh config. Changed hardcoded refs from digitalocean to supercontest.
- Added secrets to my local desktop dev env.
- Added Ansible instructions.
- As of 2022-05-30, Google no longer supports access from less secure apps, which I used for SMTP. Will spin off into another ticket: #157.
- Built the infra and app images locally and ran to success.
- Backed up the prod db in wsl locally. The restored my local db synced to prod.
- Added the alembic migration to create the new season’s tables with appropriate dates. Worked.
- Cleared the paid players in the league_user_association table.
- Changed home route to matchups (not leaderboard, better for offseason).
