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Mastodon @nelson@tech.lgbt Linkblog Fri 2024-04-19 Turning Point voting fraud Thu 2024-04-18 Bicycles of World War II AI-ese Mon 2024-04-15 Butterick’s Practical Typography Wicked Bible Sat 2024-04-13 Normalization of Jan 6 Followgraph for Mastodon South Yuba Canal Fri 2024-04-12 Waffle House order marking Wed 2024-04-10 Boy Meets Boy Meets Boys’ Love Termux Tue 2024-04-09 Netflitwitter Nigeria’s Scrabble King Internet eclipse traffic Electric rickshaws Mon 2024-04-08 Eclipse power dashboard Windows terminal latency Grass Valley pasties Django's left hand Willie Nelson's guitar Search Archives 2023 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2022 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2021 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2020 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2019 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2018 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2017 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2016 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2015 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2014 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2013 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2012 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2011 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2010 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2009 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2008 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2007 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2006 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2005 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2004 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2003 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2002 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 2001 12 11 10 09 08 07 One good site MDN Nelson Minar nelson@monkey.org Blog licensed under a Creative Commons License		Big blog traffic I was fortunate and my recent blog post about Google was linked to on two high traffic sites: Hacker News and Daring Fireball. I'm grateful; their audiences are just who I wanted to reach with that post. Also they drive a lot of traffic to feed my ego. I'm struck by how front-loaded the traffic is. Hacker News is on the left (total: 20,000). Daring Fireball on the right (5000). The front spike is particularly notable with Daring Fireball; the moment John posted that to his blog around 1PM California time I hit peak traffic from him and four hours later it'd mostly died out. How does that work so fast? Surely people aren't just reloading his blog all day. RSS readers? Twitter? I'm also pleased poor ol' Blosxom kept up; the last time I got a lot of traffic was a mess. Back then I died at a pathetic 4qps; this time I hit 10x that without breaking a sweat. The key thing is using Apache's threaded worker MPM instead of the horribly obsolete prefork MPM. I now have 1000 server threads to serve all those parallel fetching, socket-camping modern web browsers. Even better would be a proper non-blocking server but Apache's worker MPM is still labelled "experimental" and I don't want to deal with some other HTTP server right now. I did go ahead and switch some images to inline data: URLs; should be an improvement. tech • blosxom 2012-02-02 18:07 Z Nelson's Weblog • tech • blosxom → linkblog, plugins