Just testing the load on my server. May delete later.

Also, enjoy the video of Gaybo on the Late Late Show in the early 80s.

https://odd.blog/2022/12/21/computers-are-the-big-thing-this-year/

Computers are the big thing this year

All the kids are gone bananas about computers. There’s approximately 1,000 Commodore 64s in Irish schools. In 1983. Gay Byrne on the Late Late Toy Show in 1983 interviewed nine year old Oric …

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261 embed requests since this was posted a few minutes ago.

359 requests for the post itself.
1 minute load average topped out at 1.34 for 5 seconds before going back to 0.34.

I had garbage collection TTL set to 60 seconds and I think it expired in the middle of that rush of requests for the page.
I had tail -f on my log in a screen session, which adds a bit to the load too.
My blog was still very responsive the whole time.

Now to test it again with a longer TTL. Not sure if Mastodon instances cache the preview.

https://odd.blog/2022/12/21/computers-are-the-big-thing-this-year/

Computers are the big thing this year

All the kids are gone bananas about computers. There’s approximately 1,000 Commodore 64s in Irish schools. In 1983. Gay Byrne on the Late Late Toy Show in 1983 interviewed nine year old Oric …

Something Odd!

Looks like they do cache the preview. That's good news at least. :)

Here's a very old blog post, which surprisingly has a link to a blog post that is still alive. Colour me surprised!

https://odd.blog/2004/06/09/the-transit-of-venus/

The Transit of Venus

Here’s a few beautiful photos of the transit of Venus captured from North America. Def. a keeper! Link via APOD where you can find more stuff and info. Much Later… Great close up photo …

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@donncha Thanks for sharing the pics! How long has your blog been online?

@gbeecham It's been going in different forms since 1998, long before WordPress. :)

My photoblog is a newer one. First post there was 2005!