aprs.fi had some hickups in APRS-IS data intake today. Software bug triggered by erratic input. Sorry about that.
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A long-overdue new feature: In the Account view on the web site, you can now add up to three email addresses to an user account, promote new ones to be the primary one, and delete non-primary addresses, to effectively change from an old address to a new address.
The additional emails also work as backup account recovery addresses.
aprs.fi was down between 2024-11-21 02:42:05 and 08:00 UTC today, due to an UPS failure at the hosting location. I hear the UPS was not really happy with itself at all, some sort of existential crisis. Some disk storage corruption happened as well, I'll have to do some follow-up work. APRS messaging real-time notifications to aprs.fi app got properly fixed at 09:22 UTC.
v2.6.0 is out! New button to switch symbol size (helps with age vision & when using the app in a car), brand new symbol for RVs, and more 3x high-resolution graphics to make things look really sharp on the latest devices.
For a long time I've been a little bit bothered that the APRS symbol set has a symbol defined for RVs (Recreational Vehicles), but the symbol graphic just says "RV". With a little help from Adobe's AI (and some hand tuning on top) I've now created a new symbol for RVs. Unlike the old "RV" letters, it can also meaningfully point to directions. I'm not entirely sure this was the best way to spend 1 evening, but I finally scratched that itch.
Making of custom message notification sound for the http://aprs.fi app. Keepin’ it real, huh? #fullstackdeveloper Reaper, http://webradiocontrol.tech , Icom, Grafana.
Had to double check that my code is working with the help of @aprsdroid . Scandic letters and emojis are still fine!
Ah, the new push notification backend seems to fly! Each APRS Thursday message goes through in 1-2 seconds without any queue buildup, and I can easily adjust the capacity up if necessary, by bumping up the number of goroutines from 16. Noticed UTF-8 messages are broken by ANSRVR, thought for an hour it might be my new notifier code.