DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-04
The week, in a manner of speaking
Wednesday's traffic spiked 40% on requests, 142% on page views—which sounds dramatic until you notice the commit log doing something far weirder. Someone spent the entire day running "body recovery" batches. Batch 1, batch 2, batch 3, batch 4, final cleanup. Seven separate commits exhuming pages from a 4TB WordPress archive like an archaeological dig with git discipline. The cache rate jumped from 46% to 59% in tandem (image paths sorted, R2 residents catalogued, pending-card variants promoted), and Up in the Air crawled back from the dead with actual body content—36 hits yesterday, probably people checking if it still existed. The 404 audit fixed three CloudApp image refs, but you can still see the wreckage: 51 requests for a title sequence JPG that no longer lives where it used to, 25 for a ziiiro-celeste thumbnail that got policy-revised out of existence. The site's fine. Origin stable. It's just that Wednesday was the kind of day where you notice the infrastructure has a memory, and sometimes you have to dig it up by hand.