Yesterday we were Slashdotted, where thousands upon thousands of people read our previous post.

To handle the traffic, we bought more RAM for our linode virtual server, learned about Django’s cache_page decorator, temporarily redirected blog traffic to Coral Cache, and added WordPress Super Cache to this blog. I’ve gracelessly rebooted the virtual server three times in the past twenty-four hours.

In good news, we went from 485 users to 614 people, and some new faces showed up in our IRC channel (#openhatch on Freenode)! We have new bugs filed, and people have been answering the project questions. What a burst of activity!

Today, we ate lunch. We used our new eight quart pot and filled it with daal (lentils) with carrots and celery. This way, we’ll never have to cook ever again.

And this afternoon, we’re going to fix the various things that broke loose during the load storm.