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jkap
@jkap

me: ughhhh this rewrite is gonna take forever, it's such a change from how we currently do things, gonna need new systems and everything. boooo

me, one hour later: MR's up. that ended up being easy actually

MORAL: software estimation is Difficult


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@jkap

little sneak preview: we're aware of massive performance issues with the bookmarked tag feed on later pages, especially for users with lots of bookmarked tags. we're changing how pagination works on the bookmarked tag feed to fix this. you won't be able to arbitrarily paginate very easily but that's probably fine given the alternative is "loading page 4 times out always"


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in reply to @jkap's post:

Me: This is pretty simple, should be done by lunchtime.

Me, one week later: I think I've got the last of the weird pervasive changes that knock on to every other part of the application fixed, hoping to have a PR ready by lunchtime.

in reply to @jkap's post:

glad to hear it! it's hard for me to test in practice b/c i've got a decent amount of bookmarked tags but not enough to trigger issues until than like 20 pages deep, but the theory was sound so i figured i'd Let It Rip

software estimation sucks

you either know exactly where, what, and why the problem is/needs, one of those things, or neither, and each one increases it an order of magnitude until "fuck if I know"