2025-12-21 - Shortener
Mammies little baby loves shortening, shortening!
Yeah, sorry. So I cleaned up my url shortener so it can be more easily used from the site (you need to be a registered user to create URLs, but you can see an example at https://0x0x.dev/s/SXu_, which links to the bitcoin genesis transaction on blockchain.com).
I ran into some problems deploying it here. This application server runs in a docker container, and dockerd was consuming a huge amount of memory and commands like "docker ps" were hanging. It looks like I triggered a startup loop at some point during the deployment, and the docker daemon must have accumulated a large number of containers. docker system purge finally fixed it after running for quite a while, but we actually saw a fair amount of downtime over the past week while I was sporadically trying to fix this.