Rob Cooper 🇨🇦

Once weighed 475 pounds... Now doesn't. Drinks bone broth, swings kettlebells, drives a jeep. Recovering Vegan/vegetarian pronouns: Mr.Cooper/Sir #carnivore

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else"

Leonardo da Vinci

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

Hmmm

[The Assembly @InTheAssembly]

This is genuinely wild.

Cloudflare just dropped new Radar data showing that bots and AI traffic now account for 57.5% of all HTML webpage requests on their network.

Humans are down to 42.5%.

For context, Cloudflare handles around 20% of the entire internet. So this is not a small sample size.

Their CEO said the agentic AI wave has flipped the script years ahead of their 2027 forecast. Crawlers, scrapers, autonomous agents. Hammering sites non stop.

Most of the visitors reading content and loading pages right now are machines.

This breaks a lot of things at once.

Ad models that priced eyeballs, SEO playbooks built around human reading patterns, site design and rate limits built for human behavior. All of it needs to be rewritten for machines first.

The internet just stopped being a human-first place.

We are the minority now.

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

Cool

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox ~ all run on the same web server.
One quiet Russian engineer wrote it alone. For free. 🤯

> Meet Igor Sysoev 🇷🇺

> Russian software engineer. Born 1970 in Soviet Kazakhstan.
> Failed his first university entrance exam.
> Joined Rambler in 2000 as a system administrator.
> 2002 ~ started writing a new web server in his free time. Alone.
> Goal: handle 10,000 simultaneous users on one machine ~ a problem Apache (the dominant web server at the time) couldn't solve.
> 2004 ~ released nginx publicly. Free. Open source.
> Zero marketing. Zero PR. Just the code.
> 2008 ~ nginx was serving 500 million requests per day at Rambler.
> 2011 ~ founded Nginx Inc. with co-founder Maxim Konovalov.
> 2013 ~ Netflix scaled its streaming CDN to 40 Gbps per server using nginx.
> 2019 ~ F5 acquired the company for $670 million.
> December 2019 ~ Russian police raided his Moscow office over a fake copyright claim.
> The Russian tech community publicly defended him. Charges were dropped.🚀
> 2021 ~ nginx overtook Apache as the #1 web server on Earth.
> 2022 ~ left F5 quietly. No farewell tour. No book deal.
> Today nginx powers Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox, Cloudflare, WordPress.
> 33% of every website on Earth runs on his code. Apache trails at 26%. Microsoft's IIS isn't even close.
> Still 100% open-source. Still free.

One man wrote it alone, in his free time, for free.
He never sought publicity. He never asked for credit.
A third of every website on Earth still runs on his work.

Webserver GOAT 🐐

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@TopAlliedAceWW1 All very insightful, thank you

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

Speaking with my electrician about backup power systems and my power goes out. Ironic.
Or insightful?

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@Krommsan @Tablesalt13 @R_Sole1 and Israel last

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

Good luck Spencer

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@J_Wise_geology Lol

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@GunGnome @AverageSizeAndy @AmericanLictor First day of veterans month

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@J_Wise_geology Wow. Just looked that up

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@Gunblaze1969 Grab me some apple stock please

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

Veterans month

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@J_Wise_geology Elbows up could now mean Canada can MAGA.

as I said, unclear what elbows up means

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@J_Wise_geology Im not sure. Unclear what that means. But as he said a few days ago, "Canada can MAGA"

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@fckboislayer Fire dept was across the street. They walked over with a hest gun first, then called for an axe and fire extinguisher. Ripped the side of apt open and blasted it.

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@GunGnome @GigaBasedDad The Los Angeles Angels

The The angels angels

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@newstart_2024 I met Michael. Shook his hand on his farm

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@newstart_2024 The microbiom adapts to the input. It takes a little bit. Mine was about 6 weeks and I used to cycle a variety of fiber types before carnivore.

Then just stopped all Fibre.

6 weeks to transition and bobs your uncle

[Rob Cooper 🇨🇦 @formerfatguy]

@_p_rittenhouse But that's what you were waiting for