Monorepo for Aesthetic.Computer aesthetic.computer

papers: the year's traffic, read four ways, and the gallery iframe that wasn't an audience master

Aesthetic Network Traffic Report (arxiv-traffic) — 276,645,410 edge requests across sixteen zones against 71,143 direct human boots, pulled from Cloudflare zone analytics, the boots collection, lith's Caddy log and the piece-hit ledger. The first pass counted 118,982 "human" boots and called February the largest audience event in the project's history. It was top.kidlisp.com cycling codes in iframes on a screen in the LA timezone at a flat 1,600-2,300 boots every hour including four in the morning. Section 2.1 now separates embedded boots from arrivals, and every count of people in the paper is direct-only. What survives: /api/version is 57.0% of a day's requests and handle-colors another 16.4%; 45.6% of requests come from our own headless Chrome; the audience is 5,776 people in 106 countries and 93.5% of them never come back; justforfun.io converts better than Google; macpal-status has returned 500 to every call for long enough that nobody noticed; and the KidLisp registry stopped recording reads on 19 April. Data provenance and the four instruments' blind spots are in arxiv-traffic/data/README.md. Aesthetic Eye passed on the funnel figure and the brand period. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Qtcrd9WiVLF3wrFL3wCSu