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Finally added cache busting to mb. I should have done this long before but I only learned this technique recently. For some reason I never wondered how bigger sites did this.

For those who don’t know what cache busting is. It’s a technique used to force a web browser to download the latest version of a static file (css, img, …) instead of using a cached version. This is done by making every version of a file have a different and unique name, so the browser won’t recognize the updated file and will fetch it from the server. I have done this by adding a hash of the file to the filename, for example main-ad5d104a4a86.css.

With every version being a unique file we can update the Cache-Control header.

Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable

This the most aggressive caching that you can configure, it tells the browser that this file will never change and that it will never need to refetch it from the server. This could be a problem for normal files but this is perfect for this usecase because we have control of the clients cache from the server.

Normally these hashes would be added at build/bundle time. But Golang doesn’t have these options so I did it at start-up of the server. Luckily Golang is very fast so it didn’t add any time to the start up (1-2 ms). The implementation works better then expected.

The perfectionist within me did try it with code-gen and it did work, see commit. But it didn’t feel clean or maintainable and was drifting from the goal of simplicity of this project, so I decided to scrap it.

To many “breakcore” songs sound the same, and use the same samples, with the same kind of chops. Same Same Same. The market is over oversaturated.

Breakcore is also a hard to define genre, especial with the new wave of breakcore that is most of the time just DnB. That is also why I use the label ‘core’ on this blog, for me it is a more inclusive label. That way I don’t mislabel tracks but I can still group them by the breakbeat vibe.

It know that the term ‘core’ doesn’t mean anything and that there are a lot of genres ending in ‘core’, but it makes sense in my head and this is my blog. Maybe ‘breakbeat’ would be a better label now I think about it. Ah, it is what it is and I am not going to change it.

Finally something different.

simple != easy

Golang is simple, which means that its easy to understand.

Running a marathon is simple; you just keep running. But nobody would call it easy.

So why do people call Python easy and simple? Things only seem simple until you need to do something complex. Then the complexity starts to compound.

People need to take complexity more into account when choosing a technology. The amount of magic that is happening always has a cost. You just need to consider if you will pay that cost for a certain project or if you will never run into the downside.

Simple things are not always better, to be clear. But they have their place, and recently I am leaning more towards simpler solutions. They may require more work, but at least I know that I understand most of the things that are happening.

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simple != easy

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