Love this. Looking into the (nerdy?) tools we use everyday.
Interesting quote from all this: “Open systems tend to evolve into messes. But closed systems tend not to evolve at all, and die.”
(Also posted on my LinkedIn feed)
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Sometimes I look through the HTTP referrer logs to see if anyone is talking about my blog. I use the f 11 command to extract the referrer field from the log files, count up the number of occurrences of each referring URL, then discard the ones that are internal referrers from elsewhere on my blog.