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This looks like a static website that could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota. And still... It's been hugged to death, which is ironic, considering it's a software engineering website :).

Hell, something like this probably doesn't even need that. Throw it on a debian box running nginx or apache and you'll probably be set (though, with how hard bots have been scraping recently it might be harder than that)

Law 1: caching is 90-99% of performance.

are you saying performance is 90-99% caching? If so that is so obviously untrue.

If you are saying you _can_ fix 90-99% of performance bottlenecks eventually with caching, that may be true, but doesn't sound as nice

Waybackmachine to the rescue :D https://web.archive.org/web/20260421113202/https://lawsofsof...

Prior probability of a prompt-created website: 50%.

Posterior probability of a prompt-created website: 99%.

So somebody who doesn’t know how to properly host a static website wants to teach me about software engineering. Cool. 99% sure it’s a vibecoded container for AI slop anyway.

Laws are there to be broken.

Fixed, thanks!

"Performance doesn't matter!"