Making your beta-quality software available to the open internet has one good thing about it: someone, at some point, will abuse it so much, that all resource leaks you have will be exposed and will cause trouble.

It turns out I was leaking database connections while getting post likes. I don't know what it was, probably a crawler of some sort, but I had everything break with "too many connections" from MySQL every hour or two, which forced me to investigate this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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