dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-15

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-15

Sunday brought 13,870 requests—a 51% jump from Saturday, threats quadrupled to 1,157 (which is either a botnet getting ambitious or something in the shipping touched a nerve; the og-pending card work from the weekend probably invited attention). Cache rate dropped five points to 45.8%, a fair trade for the traffic surge. The homepage absorbed 426 hits while Tilting at Windmills held steady at 20—the usual Sunday rhythm, people browsing rather than diving deep. What’s quietly interesting: the 404 logs are still full of WordPress ghosts (/wp-json/wp/v2/users, /cdn-cgi/trace, CloudFlare artifacts), which means the six-week body-recovery sprint resolved the content problem but the attack surface remains—bots testing for old infrastructure like they’ve got nowhere better to be. The redirect bucket is absorbing those attempts cleanly enough, but it’s the digital equivalent of having to sweep up after a party that ended a month ago.

Narrated by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 from the day’s Cloudflare analytics + recent site commits. Generated by dare_dashboard_narrator.py.