Obligatory "this painting is a mathematical formula, a big function on the x and y coordinates of each pixel" video from Iñigo Quilez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk

It's the same for me when foo and bar are used as examples.

The alternative I'd suggest to someone using Hugo for a simple site/blog would be https://www.getzola.org. Single binary, batteries included.

Does anyone have a better go to?

This article and its associated HN comment section continue in the long tradition of Big O Notation explainers [0] and getting into a comment kerfuffle over the finer, technical points of such notation versus its practical usage [1]. The wheel turns...

[0] https://nedbatchelder.com/text/bigo.html

[1] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201711/toxic_experts.html

Most people from almost every specialty mostly dismiss calculus as useless, don't even remember linear algebra is a thing, and never learn or forgets everything about statistics. (But the reaction to probability varies a lot.)

I have no idea what's up with those disciplines, but it's an almost universal reaction to them. Unless people are very clearly and directly using them all the time, they just get dismissed.

Given the various ways people in this thread have pointed out you lack fluency with the notation, why do you think it reasonable for people to want to learn it without learning the concepts it's describing?

I would just say "almost always" to cut off the pedants. You do use the same notation to describe the best-case and average-case as well; people just don't care about those as often.