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tinuviel · 2026-02-09T05:20:36 1770614436

Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:24:29 1770193469

The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design.

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:20:29 1770193229

Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.

ashenke · 2026-02-04T13:02:33 1770210153

I think what he is saying is adding simple svg icons, not images. For instance this one https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/308550/earthquake-damage-earthqu... is 700 bytes, and it can most likely be simplified and compressed. (you can also lazy load them so they don't delay the content)

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:18:03 1770193083

National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon}

Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:16:03 1770192963

I've added them. Thank you.

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:15:16 1770192916

Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T06:56:43 1770188203

Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.

tinuviel · 2026-02-03T19:32:57 1770147177

The weather API call has been fixed.

FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.

tinuviel · 2026-02-03T18:46:51 1770144411

It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here.

Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.

deceptionatd · 2026-02-04T00:13:02 1770163982

I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm...

Cloudflare with Cache-Control headers is even simpler if you're okay with adding Cloudflare as a dependency.

From an ASN lookup, it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give you free data egress: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/why-cdn-client...

Their Always-On feature would also help if Oracle has an outage.

I like the general idea, very lightweight and more likely to remain accessible when an emergency is overloading the mobile networks.

tinuviel · 2026-02-04T08:14:34 1770192874

Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.

tinuviel · 2026-02-03T16:51:06 1770137466

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme...

112 is also a national emergency number.