

Yes, get yourself eclipse glasses, a pinhole projector, a floppy disk, digital camera or whatever allows you to observe the eclipse safely – no phenomenon is worth risking your eyesight over. However, the consensus is that you can watch the sun flares without protection during totality. The totality lasted 0 to 4 minutes depending on your location.
Person who invented sorting algorithms watching you sort by new “to avoid algorithms”:
(yes, I’m also guilty of milking the ancient computer science vs. venture capital vocabulary joke; if you wanna start a flamewar better do it about “sorting” vs “ordering”)