I took the day off today to get a health check.
Good news: the doctor said, “You’re healthy, no issues at all!”
I instantly felt like I just unlocked a new buff — +10 stamina or something like that.

Back home in the afternoon… I went straight back to coding.
I’ve been experimenting with a feature that captures still images from YouTube videos.
At first I tested it with Node.js — it worked fine, so I moved to NestJS to make it easier to scale later. I want to eventually add things like:

• Saving images to a database

• User login

• Rate limiting to prevent spam

Here’s how the current solution works:

• I’ve got a backend using Puppeteer

• Puppeteer opens a browser, jumps to a specific timestamp in the video, and takes a screenshot

• That image is then uploaded to Discord — I’m using it like a quick-n-dirty cloud storage for now

As for the frontend, I just needed a fullscreen page to play the video. So I wrote a simple HTML + CSS page. I could host it on my domain… But yeah, I was lazy and went with GitHub Pages instead.

Everything was going well until I hit a snag: YouTube was showing ads on the embedded video, and worse — autoplay didn’t work. I suspect it’s because GitHub Pages is a trusted domain to YouTube, so it allows ads. Tomorrow I’ll try hosting it on my own domain to see if that fixes the issue.

But overall, today was a good day — I’m healthy, my brain’s sharp, and code flowed like water.
A “day off” that still turned out pretty productive.

It’s late now — time to crash.
Hope you’re feeling as good as I did today