another problem is just the tap output (when it starts) gives no indication that it's severely behind and is doing something this just looks .. normal. it's hard to say that it's doing anything at all. it just looks idle even claude couldn't figure out what's going on

> dev:tap
> TAP_SIGNAL_COLLECTION=at.inlay.pack TAP_COLLECTION_FILTERS=at.inlay.* TAP_DISABLE_ACKS=true TAP_LOG_LEVEL=debug tap run

{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.216959Z","level":"INFO","msg":"creating tap service"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.218584Z","level":"INFO","msg":"startup complete"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.218595Z","level":"INFO","msg":"starting firehose consumer"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.218605Z","level":"INFO","msg":"starting HTTP server","addr":":2480"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.229748Z","level":"INFO","msg":"connecting to firehose","system":"tap","component":"firehose","url":"wss://relay1.us-east.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos?cursor=27917087710","cursor":27917087710,"retries":0}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.537807Z","level":"INFO","msg":"connected to firehose","system":"tap","component":"firehose"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.545088Z","level":"INFO","msg":"enumerated repos by collection batch","system":"tap","component":"crawler","collection":"at.inlay.pack","count":5}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.545167Z","level":"INFO","msg":"collection enumeration complete","system":"tap","component":"crawler","collection":"at.inlay.pack"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:03.545178Z","level":"INFO","msg":"finished enumerating network, sleeping for 1 day","system":"tap","component":"crawler"}
{"time":"2026-03-07T23:54:04.63829Z","level":"INFO","msg":"websocket connected","system":"tap","component":"server"}
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