I shared my previous post on Reddit, and I got some very useful feedback which pointed out the irrelevance of what I was measuring (and also a scientific paper pointing out many statistical errors in a "real" GitHub study).

So, I figured I'd measure something more relevant: bugs.

Caveats

Sadly …

I decided to review some programming languages, by comparing their popularity with their Rosetta Code implementation terseness.

I measured terseness as the average of implementations' estimated zipped code filesize.

Update 2019-12-11: I want to add a few caveats that people notified me in this Reddit post:

• The analyzed source code …

On the surface, CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) present a great way of speeding up the loading of websites.

Without a CDN, requests take longer for users that are far away network-wise, but not a lot longer if users are near the server (perhaps on the same continent). Here are some …

Thermal shutdown

I started playing some games on my Debian laptop. After some time of intense fan blowing, the laptop shut down. I figured this was likely a thermal shutdown - the device turning itself off to protect itself.

I started monitoring the temperature - and it was getting to 100ºC at …