Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

Happy New Year, smallweb! Let's chat!

Chatter posts are irregularly-occurring posts to... chat in. Show off what you're working on, what cool stuff you've found lately, what's going well or not so well or anything else. Stop in to say Hi if you want.

Do you have any plans for the year/month/week?

Comments

[stepnix]

I'm hosting a game jam! It's my first time running something like this, and it's already gone so much better than expected

[kalloway]

That's awesome!

[alaterdate]

Happy New Year!

I'm not planning on working on any new pages for my website this month, but I do have a (hefty) to-do list.

Recently the very friendly and lovely cyberneticdryad added my Dragon Age shrine to their shrine list which is pretty cool!
I don't really use the social media-ness of Neocities, but I'm glad to have met a new person there.

It seems like a lot of people who have personal sites also do fiber arts. (And speaking of my to-do list) I need to get my "craft corner" up so I can display my own fiber art projects!

[kalloway]

Ah, that's cool!

I always forget about the socmed part of Neocities; I've barely used it myself. ^^;;

[axolotls]

After moving my server to my dad's VM cluster recently, we've set up a way for me to power it on/off remotely and make snapshots! Otherwise, haven't had time to do much, updated my sites to Astro 5 and put a component I made to open/close groups of details elements intuitively up on GitHub, hopefully I can get a Javascript-only version working soon!

[larissa]

I've been making really good progress on the site I'm working on! I'm making a site about my Final Fantasy XIV characters, and it's been really fun to put it together. Haven't started coding yet, but I'm trying some new things for the design and am finding it very fulfilling. I'd like to open it by the end of the month, so here's hoping!

[sophia_sol]

I managed to work through issues I was having with my server, and got my ubuntu to actually update! and was able to update my linkding instance to the most recent version! very exciting.

However, I continue to struggle with my cpu constantly being near 100%, I think from bot traffic, and so far I haven't been successful at dealing with it. added a robots.txt file, and confirmed I have fail2ban installed, but no luck. the processes involved in using up the cpu are both uwsgi but looking for solutions hasn't been productive yet. would be VERY open to suggestions if any of you have any!

so, you know, some good news and some bad, and the learning curve continues!

[almach]

Could it be this stuff? (I think these are all the same issue under the hood, just providing several links because they have different context and one might be more useful than the others to you.)

• linkding #453 uwsgi causing excessive memory consumption
• linkding #439 malloc(): cannot allocate memory in Docker
• uwsgi #2299 High memory usage if fs.nr_open is very high and no ulimit set on Linux systems

As far as I can tell, uwsgi tries to do an allocation that scales linearly with the number of file descriptors it thinks might ever possibly exist on the system, and then high CPU usage occurs when other parts of the code iterate over those gigantic arrays. So putting a cap on what uwsgi thinks is the maximum number of fds, by setting the environment variable UWSGI_MAX_FD or by setting the nofile ulimit in the Docker container, might fix it. I have Linkding running on PikaPods and the max number of fds is set to 524288 as far as uwsgi is concerned, and the CPU usage is very reasonable; I've seen people in the comments of those issues report setting it as low as 1024 with no problems.

[cennydd]

I just finished a massive overhaul of my fandom site (site is 18+ for discussion of sex), complete with a new section for BL reviews, so I plan on setting that site aside for a bit, outside of minor edits as needed. I do have another project I want to work on but that depends on how much time I have, I've got jury duty for the next two weeks and after that I have to look for a job.

[sleepyquail]

I haven't done much of anything until last week, when I suddenly decided I needed to add my Dragon Age: Veilguard OC to my OCs list, and one thing led to another as it does and now he has his own little spot - Caulthurin de Riva. This is mostly because I wanted somewhere to centralise my things about his relationship with Emmrich, so.

And on the theme of centralisation, I went to sign up for Candy Hearts Exchange and realised with sinking dread that I'd have to do the dw-letter-formatting all over again, because even though I keep copies of all my letters with the html in them, they somehow always need fixing and it drives me mental. SO I decided to make a centralised place for all my exchange letter information here on my site! I used the same layout as my fanfic pages and I'm super pleased with how it came out - I have some lesser requested fandoms/ships to add, but it's a very nice start for me, and it was sooo satisfying just to be able to drop the url into my sign up for Candy Hearts!