oedmarap

One of the strategies that changed my sleep quality for the better is to stop taking coffee after 9 AM; after learning that caffeine has a half-life of around 6-7 hours[0], but a quarter-life of around 12 hours. If you have a cup of coffee at noon, a quarter of that caffeine can still be circulating around your brain at midnight.

[0] https://youtu.be/k5BMGmf1ai0

oedmarap

5 lat temudiscuss

Slightly related, but I use age[0] for most of my non-automated file encryption tasks; and one of the neat features it has is the ability to encrypt to a GitHub user's pubkey[1].

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#encrypting-to-a-github-us...

oedmarap

5 lat temudiscuss

I imagine when the branding is complete we'll get the following gem:

  <meta property="og:title" content="Meta">
  <meta property="og:site_name" content="Meta">
  <meta property="og:url" content="https://meta.com">

Joking aside, in my view the branding (and branding ability) of the name change to Meta is impressive given their long term vision.

However, I do get the feeling that Meta will aim to eventually become a household proprietary name and thereby water-down what can be considered one of the broadest, most abstract terms we're all familiar with.

oedmarap

5 lat temudiscuss

In terms of traffic, my website received about ~24,000 visits in the span of about 3-4 weeks, with the majority of the views (~16,000) occurring in the first week, but the effect continued for quite some time after due to back-linking, social media sharing, and whatnot.

For reference, my site averaged less than 50 visits per month in total before my blog post hit the front page (in April 2021).

Only in the last month as of writing this comment (October 2021) have the numbers trickled down gradually from the hundreds to the tens.

In terms of performance, I have a static site (built with Jekyll, hosted on Netlify, BunnyCDN for media, and proxied through Cloudflare) so the traffic spike didn't affect the site at all. Not even a little bit.

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