DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-31
The week, in a manner of speaking
Saturday settled into the routine it apparently prefers: 2,609 page views, down 20% from Friday but tracking the weekly average, which is the kind of boring stability that runs sites. The homepage did its job (498 hits), Tilting at Windmills continued its six-reader faithfulness, and the contact page picked up twenty enquiries—nothing unusual, everything expected. Cache hit rate climbed to 59.8% from yesterday's 51%, which is the kind of quiet recovery that suggests the recent worker rewrites (the /ip endpoint, the /trace swap to ipinfo.io, the request.cf as JSON layer) are settling in without complaint. Threats dropped to 235 from a seven-day average of 478—half the noise, which either means the botnets got bored or Saturday itself is the kind of day that doesn't attract much attention. The 404 count held steady at its usual parade of artifact requests (/cdn-cgi/trace, rocket-loader.min.js, a jpeg from a folder that no longer exists)—the permanent noise floor of a site that used to live somewhere else. Nothing broke. The footers across all 679 pages now say 2006–2026, which is either milestone or just careful housekeeping. Either way, the site hummed.