Open Broadcast Radio: Switzerland calling

picture of a road in the mountains with a larger mountain in the backgrround, taken near Binn.We went on holiday to the Swiss Alps earlier this month, in Ausserbinn not far from the border with Italy. I won’t bore you with a description of what we did or saw, but I do want to share the souvenir we took home with us.

While driving around we scanned the radio for nice music and we discovered “Open Broadcast”, a 24/7 non-stop radio station. They are non-commercial and have  a very eclectic playlist. My wife, daughter and I have a pretty diverging musical taste, but we agreed on keeping the radio stuck on Open Broadcast Radio nevertheless although admittedly the other stations were that bad.

Anyway, if you’re into less commercial music, maybe have a listen over at https://openbroadcast.ch/ (I also added it to our own web-radio-library at  https://futtta.be/r/ ) ? Enjoy!

My Hacker News 15 minutes of fame: the numbers

So on Feb 25th my Do Not Donate-page was featured on Hacker News and that obviously brought some extra page-views.

Here are some more numbers for that memorable day;

  • Most popular pages:
    1. Do not donate: 10 013
    2. Homepage/ archives: 1 108
    3. about:futtta: 235
  • Referrers:
    1. Hacker News 7 978
    2. Facebook 112
    3. Search Engines 84
  • Outgoing links:
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders 959
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI#List 809
    3. https://profiles.wordpress.org/futtta 596
    4. https://www.kiva.org 87

And my server? Even at the busiest time (around 10-11 AM UTC+1) it quietly hummed along with a 0.11 system load 🙂