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title: "New Site Feature: Patron Thanks Page"
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date: 2020-02-29
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# New Site Feature: Patron Thanks Page
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I've added a [patron thanks page](/patrons) to my site. I've been getting a
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significant amount of money per month from my patrons and I feel this is a good
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way to acknowledge them and thank them for their patronage. I wanted to have it
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be _as simple as possible_, so I made it fetch a list of dollar amounts.
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Here are some things I learned while writing this:
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- If you are going to interact with the patreon API in go, use
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[`github.com/mxpv/patreon-go`][patreongo], not `gopkg.in/mxpv/patreon-go.v1`
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or `gopkg.in/mxpv/patreon-go.v2`. The packages on gopkg.in are NOT compatible
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with Go modules in very bizarre ways.
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- When using refresh tokens in OAuth2, do not set the expiry date to be
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_negative_ like the patreon-go examples show. This will brick your token and
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make you have to reprovision it.
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- Patreon clients can either be for API version 1 or API version 2. There is no
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way to have a Patreon token that works for both API versions.
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- The patreon-go package only supports API version 1 and doesn't document this
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anywhere.
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- Patreon's error messages are vague and not helpful when trying to figure out
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that you broke your token with a negative expiry date.
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- I may need to set the Patreon information every month for the rest of the time
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I maintain this site code. This could get odd. I made a guide for myself in
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the [docs folder of the site repo][docsfolder].
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- The Patreon API doesn't let you submit new posts. I wanted to add Patreon to
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my syndication server, but apparently that's impossible. My [RSS
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feed](/blog.rss), [Atom feed](/blog.atom) and [JSON feed](/blog.json) should
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let you keep up to date in the meantime.
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Let me know how you like this. I went back and forth on displaying monetary
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amounts on that page, but ultimately decided not to show them there for
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confidentiality reasons. If this is a bad idea, please let me know and I can put
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the money amounts back.
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I'm working on a more detailed post about [pa'i][pahi] that includes benchmarks
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for some artificial and realistic workloads. I'm also working on integrating it
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into the [wamscloud][wasmcloud] prototype, but it's fairly slow going at the
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moment.
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Be well.
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[patreongo]: https://github.com/mxpv/patreon-go
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[docsfolder]: https://github.com/Xe/site/tree/master/docs
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[pahi]: https://github.com/Xe/pahi
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[wasmcloud]: https://tulpa.dev/within/wasmcloud
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