Ticket to ride, white line highway,
Tell all your friends they can go my way.
Pay your toll, sell your soul,
Pound for pound costs more than gold.
The longer you stay the more you pay,
My white lines go a long way,
Either up your nose or through your veins
With nothing to gain except killing your brain.
- Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
The deeper I get into Lost Connections the more I find myself nodding along and silently, mentally screaming "yes, this!"
I think much of what Hari has written we already know on some subconscious level but aren't willing to admit.
There's something I've been thinking about for the past few months, even made some notes on, that echoes one of the areas he discusses. I wasn't sure about following through with it but now have fresh impetus to do so.
The initial version of PHP-MST is now public on GitHub. It all seems to work okay without errors – Andy and I were having a brief conversation purely using our status tools. 😆👍
Thinking a bit more about how we feel it should all work we consider having 100 items displayed to be a reasonable amount so the next step will be to create temporary storage for a rolling 100 items – this will be in a CSV file rather than a database.
Item retrieval will then be able to happen in the background and the feed built from that file rather than on the fly. everything should then work more smoothly and page refreshes be quicker.
