DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-15
The week, in a manner of speaking
Wednesday clawed back some respectability. Seven thousand requests, cache hit rate at 61.5% — a genuine recovery from the basement numbers that preceded this. The session report picked up 28 views, which suggests yesterday's engineering worked; the header rollout batch jobs (212 pages into observations, 184 more, 231 more — the commits tell a story of someone systematically untangling information architecture) are landing without catching fire. Threats blocked held steady at 142. The 404 noise persists — `/8.php`, `/file61.php`, the usual phantom wp-admin ecosystem — but that's the tax on being indexed by things that used to be other sites. Cool Hand Luke and the Patagonia piece both drew eighteen each. The homepage did the work: 516 hits against 2,686 page views means most traffic dried before the door. Quiet, functional, the kind of Wednesday that doesn't ask for much and gets exactly what it earned.