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Countdown to the end of season 5 / start of season 6!

This is an experimental frame. The idea is this countdown should be accurate whenever you see the frame, without needing to press a reresh button. Let's see if it works! 🤞 
https://degen-countdown.heox.org/

I think I win the "most impractical frame" award for my countdown clock frame. Some technical details:

1. I wanted a never-ending frame, but it's not currently possible. Streaming is possible with GIFs, but Warpcast's proxy cuts the connection off after some time, and even if it didn't the Farcaster spec says maximum image size is 10MB.

2. So I created an illusion. I generate a 180-second long GIF, clocking in at about 900KB.

3. The trick is I generate that 180-second long GIF *every single second*. Every second, the frame returns a new filename. This means you can load it side-by-side on your cellphone and desktop and they should show roughly the same countdown. Unfortunately either CF / Warpcast doesn't seem to really respect cache-control: max-age=1, but it mostly works.

4. Might be the first ASP.NET-hosted frame? It runs on a Hetzner Cloud ccx23 instance. Everything is done in memory, with unsafe code in the SkiaSharp + KGy Soft libraries doing the lifting. It's crashed once in the past 2 hours.

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