everyone's messaging me about a "meowing session" I scheduled at #emf2024
the thing is, while it says "alyx" and it'd make logical sense for it to have been me because I organized the one at 37c3, it's an impostor. I did not create the meowing session at EMF.
@kev is this a dynamically generated blog page from Ghost or WordPress or something? Dynamic generation may cause a performance hit if you're using that. My site serves completely static pages from nginx and uses a similarly specced VM and can (and has) taken the full hit of frontpaging HN without CDN caching enabled without skipping a beat.
@kev one of the most impactful things you can do is lowering the bar for what the server has to do to serve a page, ideally the most it should have to do is read from disk or a memory cache and serve it. Talking to a database and having to generate HTML on the fly for every request is going to nuke your performance pretty hard, and unfortunately that's how a lot of blog software rolls. Hugo and Jekyll are my preferred blog generators right now because your run it once and it spits out HTML files
A bit late with this but last week I travelled with @erin and @ashley to Amherst, Ohio to try to shoot the Solar Eclipse! The entire endeavor was pretty poorly planned, but I think we got some pretty great shots out of it.
The original plan was to be in Niagara falls, but on the morning of the eclipse the cloud cover wasn't looking promising, so we made a last minute call to head for Ohio (at 6 in the morning!).