Today I was working on a feature I actually find pretty cool: capturing an image from a specific timestamp in a YouTube video.
The idea is simple — from a video, you can snap a frame at any given moment and use it as an image in your article.

This feature ties directly into the app I’m building: turning YouTube videos into blog-style articles.

It worked perfectly on my local setup, so I decided to go big — bought a domain: videosnap.org
Sounds spot on, right? You just know it’s for snapping video frames. Next, I started setting up my VPS from scratch:

• Installed Docker

• Set up Nginx to proxy requests to the right containers

• Created a shared Docker network between Nginx and the services

Sounds simple enough, but trust me, it’s a wild ride. Everything looked fine — until I tried sending a request... And it just stayed pending. Forever.

Checked the logs — Nginx was getting the request, so the problem wasn’t in the frontend or Nginx. It had to be one of the services behind it, or maybe they weren’t on the same network. I fixed all the little config issues, made sure everything joined the right Docker network, restarted the containers... Everything looked good.

But guess what? Still pending. Looks like I’ll need to dig deeper into debugging tomorrow.

That’s enough for today.
Catch you in the next round.
Goodnight & peace out.