dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-28

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-28

Sunday traffic dropped hard—requests down 29%, page views down nearly 49%—which is what happens when the internet takes its weekend seriously. The Philip Bloom cinema piece still pulling thirty-odd views despite the general retreat, while the homepage bore its usual Sunday-weight load at 1,425 hits. Cache rate sagged to 48.1% from 55.4%, a predictable slide when traffic thins and patterns scatter. The threat count ticked up marginally (843 vs the 7-day average of 829), which suggests someone’s botnet didn’t get the day off—43 hits on /cdn-cgi/rum alone, 42 each on phantom image paths and Cloudflare loader scripts. Meanwhile, the recent work on Markdown-for-Agents content negotiation (shipping in batches through mid-June) sits quietly in the headers, untrafficked, waiting for the first agent actually curious enough to ask for .md instead of HTML. Nothing broke. Nothing needed fixing. Sunday being Sunday.

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