dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-07-01

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-07-01

Requests spiked 33% to 15.5k yesterday, though page views dipped 16%—the classic asymmetry of bots doing their rounds while humans stay home on a Wednesday. Cache held at 52%, respectable. The real story is threats: 1,834 blocked, nearly triple the 7-day average, suggesting someone or something got briefly creative. Most of it hits the usual wound: /wp-json/wp/v2/users alone took 56 404s, along with a Cloudflare script ghost at /cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js (35 404s). The site doesn’t run that file, hasn’t for months, but the internet’s muscle memory is long. Philip Bloom pulled 39 hits—modest but steady for a Wednesday. The Markdown-for-Agents work shipped mid-June is running quiet in the background; nobody’s linking it yet, which is fine. Origin held. The Netherlands is routing 17k requests across the 90-day window, which suggests either real geography or a moderately patient datacenter with opinions about design archives.

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