Imagine you encounter a random production service. Knowing information beyond how long this service has been in production, how long should you expect that production service to last into the future, given only how long that service has been in production? The Lindy effect suggests that the expected lifespan of a random production service is proportional to its current lifespan. If a service has been in production for ten years, we might expect (a priori) for that service’s expected remaining lifespan to be ten years....

This website is a static site generated by Hugo with the PaperMod theme. I’ve used a variety of services for hosting both static and dynamic websites in the past (in a production capacity), but initially tried out AWS Amplify to host this website (which I never used before this website). To do this, I followed the instructions here, although they are a bit dated (AWS has redesigned all the UIs in the last few years), so I also documented the process here....

I’ve found RSS useful over the years and think that the world would be a marginally better place if more websites supported it (luckily, many still do, but newer websites sometimes do not). With that in mind, I decided to make sure that this website supports it. Hugo RSS Configuration Adding RSS to a hugo site (such as this, if you’re interested in getting started please see here) is relatively easy, just add the sections documented at here to your hugo....