By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: January 6, 2024
If karma is defined as “cause and effect,” here’s a little karma of the last 4-5 months:
- In early November, 2019, I suddenly started having severe chest pain.
- I happened to be standing next to my computer, so I quickly disabled comments on alvinalexander.com. In case this was something I couldn’t come back from, I didn’t want other people to have to worry about dealing with those (because many of those comments were from spammers, and a huge waste of time).
- (At the hospital I would find out this was pericarditis, i.e., inflammation around the heart.)
- Over time I realized that “no comments” meant less stress and less work, so I kept them turned off.
- One day I realized that if I was going to keep comments turned off, there was no reason to serve pages dynamically with Drupal 8 any more.
- I took a week to write some Scala scripts to convert Drupal 8 blog content to static web pages.
- My server CPU use has dropped significantly, so I can reduce my server costs by about $400/year.