I’ve been having to power cycle my Gastropoda Digital Ocean droplet every day lately because something was hogging up all the memory. It was a little annoying to diagnose because I know the problem had to do with the recurring events that are run using a cron job, of which there are quite a few. I know ideally PHP isn’t something you would use for a long running server process, but these jobs weren’t long running - they were just frequent.

Update on Rigel and response from DjurAkuten

Update: When I first wrote this post I kept all clinic names anonymous. I am now un-anonymising one of the clinics (DjurAkuten), where this whole chain of events was triggered in the first place and which is now trying to claim that Rigel was already sick/had a flaccid bladder when we brought him in for a routine surgery as a healthy kitten despite their own records stating otherwise.

In my previous post I wrote about rethinking racing (aka ripping out the existing racing system).

Today I got most of the work done on that. There is a lot left to do, but as of right now:

Racing in Gastorpoda has been implemented for months in its most basic state, but has never really gotten the attention it needs. So things like jars, in-jar positioning, and movement ended up evolving past the stage of the racing and making the current racing system kind of an outdated one.

The snail brain, while still very basic, seems somewhat stable now. By “stable” I mean a snail can survive and reproduce without human intervention if it has a steady supply of food.