You don't need to be relevant, just being accessible is enough reason for all sorts of bots, legit or sketchy, to shove hundreds of thousands of requests down your throat.

> I know of Apache, but that seems to be falling out of favour lately.

lately? more like for the last 10 years afaict.

So are you Charles I or II?

Actually he’s the spaniel. Works for DataDog.

On the Internet nobody knows I'm a King Charles Spaniel.

Except you. You know Ꙭ

Ah man, don’t give me those puppy dog eyes!

One. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kingcharles

Chrome and Firefox (probably others too) Devtools also have network simulators to test slow connection.

I guess another good example of that would be lobash. Assuming you're familiar with lodash, of course.

I guess it would be interesting if you re-wrote your website in PHP and wrote a blog post about it with the title 'Why I Moved From Ruby to PHP?'

Or just build a proper Ruby implementation

It's also in the robots.txt file.

  User-Agent: bender
  Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

this one looks very retro but the code is actually quite modern. it has custom fonts, css animations, gradients, etc. and no tables.

Also, beneath the intentional craziness, it's very clever marketing.

It's like the visual equivalent of chiptunes.

Before uninstalling stylish, consider visiting its webstore page and rating it 1-star so that upcoming users know it's not a great extension.

You can report abuse without installing, so that's an option too.

You can see the same sarcastic wit in this talk too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I

It's still my favorite tech talk, very fun to watch.