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One of the main payment processor companies.
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Serverless task scheduling
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Specific instructions on setting up a new AWS account environment.
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The setup and structure for the Config class and its associated classes.
Introduction
Efficiency: SQL and caching
Deserted Chateau's Gallery SQL
2025
"What do you mean it's still going on??"
CSS and JavaScript efficiency
Lambda
Homepage https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ What is it? Lambda is AWS' serverless computing offering. It doesn't actually mean 'serverless': it means you write some function, and then you can request Lambda to run it whenever you want, at which point it will p...
Logrotate
Main configuration Although running the command "logrotate somefile" runs that file, it does NOT mean it will continue to run it at the intervals you want. Logrotate works via cron, and by default it includes all configuration files in the /etc/logrotate.d/ ...
CSS relative colors
Relative colors in CSS Until fairly recently, there was no way to define a CSS colour as being a derivative of another colour. It is now available, but it's fairly poorly supported at the time of writing: Chrome only started supporting it in version 119 (Octo...
Using internet-facing AWS services within VPC-enabled functions
If you're running a Lambda function within a VPC (for instance, to allow it to connect to an RDS database), you will not normally be able to connect to non-VPC services like DynamoDB or SQS. Your only options are to either use a Lambda function that is not run...
HTML: Strict vs Quirks mode
What even is "strict mode"? Strict mode is a declaration you make at the top of a HTML document, like so, which tells the browser you are adhering to modern HTML rules: <!DOCTYPE HTML> Some web libraries will actually require you to use this to function pro...
Python
Homepage https://www.python.org/ What is it? A high-level scripting language. Why did we choose it? Solely because an existing FFmpeg tutorial for resizing videos in AWS Lambda was written in it, so I decided to use that code as a base and heavily modify ...
Redis
Homepage https://redis.io/ What is it? An in-memory data store, designed specifically for simplicity and performance over powerful configuration. Why did we choose it? It's one of the primary contenders for running cache servers, the other being memcached...
November 30
Hi everyone, hope you're doing well! Under the weather myself, my allergies and eczema went berserk after I couldn't get my medication for two weeks and are pretty much on fire, so I'm still recovering from that as it takes a while for it to start working agai...
November 16
Hi everyone, hope you're doing well ^^ updates below, been pretty busy so far this month. Public Update Thread I wrote a big thread on Twitter to give a public update of Deserted Chateau’s progress, link here: https://twitter.com/antsstyle/status/17223134049...
October 27
Hi everyone! Sorry there’s only one update this month; I think I actually got more done this month than I did last month, but for some reason my brain simply did not want to finish writing update stuff. I think it’s due to being “in the middle” of lots of diff...
September 30
Hi all, hope you’re doing well ^^ Deserted Chateau updates below. Video hosting changes As I talked about in the last update (or the one before that, I forget), I’ve restructured various parts of the backend code and added separate file storage buckets and C...
September 17
Hi everyone, hope you're well! Made a good bit of progress on the site in the last two weeks, updates below. Private Messages: WebSockets (using Socket.IO) implementation The main functionality is done; private messages now work via websocket and not AJAX p...
August 31
Hi all, hope you're doing well! Still kinda ill here, has been one heck of a chaotic month, but oh well. Gotten a fair bit done at least ^^ Caching improvements I’ve modified the backend code so that caching various things (search results, user follow feeds ...
August 18
Hi all, hope you’re doing well. First of all, sorry for the late update; I recently had jaw surgery to remove an awkward wisdom tooth and a tooth in front of it. The surgery itself went okay, but I haven’t been too well since then - my jaw is alright but the ...
July 27
Hi everyone, hope you're doing well :) updates below! Artwork albums I’ve started to implement albums for artists to sort their art into different display galleries on their pages. Functionally in the backend they’re not too difficult, I just need to impleme...
July 17
Hi all, hope you’re well! Lots of Deserted Chateau updates to talk about, also a brief update to ArtPoster. Database stored procedure organisation Up until now I was naming stored procedures with basic function names, but with more and more of them, it was i...
July 5
Hi all! Trying to do shorter, more frequent updates atm, fits better into my current ADHD-dictated schedule xD Still kind of recovering from the chaotic 'appointments all over the place' state of last month, but I've made some progress. UI/UX wireframes I m...
June 27
Hi all, hope you're doing okay and stuff! I'm keeping Patreon un-paused this month; I'm making some decent progress at the moment so it feels like a good time, also thought it was important to inform you all in case e.g. anyone needs to unpledge or anything. ...
June 24
Hi everyone, hope you're well :) Shorter update today, not much to report I guess. Went for surgery on Wednesday (wisdom tooth extraction, awkwardly placed one so had to be done in hospital) but got cancelled last minute, so been kinda tired between all the t...
June 8
Hi all, hope you're well. Short log today, I spent most of what productive time I could find in the last few weeks on the AI paper, which alas, sadly turned out to be something of a waste of time. I have a lot of medical appointments and some jaw surgery this...