I did not mean to spend a whole week just on the captcha, but here we are. Using a combination of an open source captcha library, linux text-to-speach software and ffmpeg, I'm fairly confidant that I've struck a good balance between usability and bot-squashing. I want to get this in front of actual humans to test asap.
Building captchas is the most cpu-intensive part of gart so far so i'm having to spend extra time making the rate-limiting mechanism more robust.
In other news I managed to get a small webdesign contract that will keep me indoors for another month so that's fantastic, but that also means i'll have to scale back work on gart for at least a week.
Also, I realized I was reindexing the devblog posts every time i ran the static site generator, so the newest post was always 0.html. That's fixed now.
Thanks again for stopping by!
~Sofie ❤️