SRsrtjstjsj·Sep 4, 2020
Apparently it's possible to bust the cache.
https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing/blob/master/handler...
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 4, 00:00 | 2020-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 01:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 01:00 | 2020-09-04 01:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 02:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 02:00 | 2020-09-04 02:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 03:00 | 2020-09-04 03:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 04:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 4, 04:00 | 2020-09-04 04:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 05:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 05:00 | 2020-09-04 05:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 06:00 | 2020-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 07:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 07:00 | 2020-09-04 07:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 08:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 08:00 | 2020-09-04 08:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 09:00 | 2020-09-04 09:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 10:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 10:00 | 2020-09-04 10:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 11:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 11:00 | 2020-09-04 11:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 12:00 | 2020-09-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 13:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 13:00 | 2020-09-04 13:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 14:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 14:00 | 2020-09-04 14:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 15:00 | 2020-09-04 15:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 16:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 16:00 | 2020-09-04 16:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 17:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 17:00 | 2020-09-04 17:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 18:00 | 2020-09-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 19:00 | 2020-09-04 19:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 20:00 | 2020-09-04 20:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 21:00 | 2020-09-04 21:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-04 22:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesFor most use cases, like for CI badges, setting cache-control and etag headers will suffice, but GitHub still caches it (just for a shorter time? I don't know the specifics). Luckily, you can request that they purge their cache for a specific file [0] so I've got a goroutine that calls it once per second [1]
[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/a...
[1] https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing/blob/0ed7c9c17970d6...
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