yay, progressing further with the paid gig.

got the header loading an actual image from the data the page is made for, and figured out how to adapt the existing username display to become a link to the username.

but then i am stuck because nobody already wrote a query to fetch all the data of the things the page relates to, so i am having a little session with the lead dev later today to learn how to write such a query.

once that query is done and it's showing the things from the query i will be MVP on my first task, only polishes needed after that.

in the meantime i gotta go to the shop that actually has an EFT terminal to get some catfood and some nicknacks. not gonna take the bike for this one - went that way one time but the path includes a descent and climb of about 100m altitude and it's only about 6km total so i can get there an back in about 3 hours, which leaves exactly enough time for me to get back and do this training session.

i am starting to see why they felt confident that i would be able to actually do this work. in a few weeks time i'm gonna know my way around NDK and maybe start to scratch around at writing something.

i might make a relay admin/user dashboard for ORLY, if all goes well by that time i will have the base of ORLY redone. i think i would like to do what i was starting to do earlier with the HTTP API stuff and shift all these features to optional modules and have them hot-configure instead of being baked in. stuff like the ACL, managing the lists of the ACL (probably move away from using simple follow/mute lists) and so on - abstract the ACL into an interface. then it will be quite simple to make or maybe use NIP-86 event stuff and adapt the NWC client code that nostr:npub1acr7ycax3t7ne8xzt0kfhh33cfd5z4h8z3ntk00erpd7zxlqzy3qrn2tqw made to create a full user subscription console. in addition to the "only seen by you" event tagging and in those events from the relay, give the users the direct links to the subscription management dashboard, which will have extension/bunker login. not sure what other things i might want to put in there but for now, just to make it into a user friendly interface.

i have aspirations to be the dev who builds the relay infra for the paid gig, and we really need to have things in place to stop griefers and spammers from fucking around with our app.