March 2018

I have been writing here (or on the predecessor site) since 1996. That means that at the time of writing in 2018, some of that content is over twenty years old. If your reaction to that statement is “that’s plenty of time for something to break” then your instincts are perfectly sound.

It has been a month now since I finished my Nanoc conversion work, and it’s pretty obvious from the chart below that the performance improvements I expected from converting to a static site are real, and are here to stay.

The chart is from Google’s search crawler, so it doesn’t represent real human usage, but the dramatic lowering of the access times since the beginning of February is undeniable. Previously, if you got unlucky, you might have waited more than a second for even one of my pearls of wisdom. Now the most banal observations might be available in mere milliseconds.