Blog comment spam is an unfortunate reality of having a blog. See the chart to get a sense of how much spam comes in on a daily basis to one of my blogs that receives a moderate amount of traffic. The red line shows the 30-day moving average for the number of spam comments daily.
Is your code fast and efficient? Is your nasty for-loop killing penguins somewhere and You don’t even know about it? We all hacked and brute-forced through a problem at one time or another – it is inevitable. How much CO2 will your hack release into the atmosphere? Writing power-inefficient code is like driving a fuel-inefficient car – we’ve all done it but it’s just not cool anymore. With green finally becoming the buzz-word everywhere, it is time to take a look at a few numbers surrounding the environmental cost of bad code.