Welcome to another Developers Digest.

Today we're discussing: Firebase Firestore updates and the Hydraulisc Blog Rewrite. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Kindly update your bookmarks.


So, what happened?

We woke up one day to the wonderful notification of Google updating Firebase (migrating to Google Cloud). We rolled our eyes and went about our day.

We woke up a couple of weeks later to a notification that Google is removing free Firebase Storage. We rolled our eyes again and moved on.

About a week ago we logged on to Firebase to find that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) is required to continue using it, Firebase Firestore databases are limited to 1 GB, reads and writes are suddenly cumulative...

In short, we decided to jump ship whilst it's still feasible.

Our solution

Blogger was updated, allowing you to see an index of all uploaded posts - but most importantly, allowing you to download a JSON-parsed database of all uploaded posts.

After a bit of tedious patching, we extracted the raw HTML from the JSON-parsed database, prettified it, and built a GitHub Action script to automate post detection and addition.


We automated a simple script to catalogue blog entries. Inefficient, buggy, Hydraulisc.