dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-07-15

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-07-15

Tuesday sagged—requests down 8.7% day-on-day, cache hit rate collapsing from 57.4% to 45.6% (something shipped or unshipped recently; the Markdown for Agents batches went live mid-June and have been re-negotiating content ever since). Page views ticked up 5.1%, though, which is the small miracle: 3,562 people found something worth reading despite the site working less efficiently at finding it for them. The homepage carried 554 of those, cinema held steady at 24, and Tilting at Windmills got its faithful six—which is either cult status or indifference, the metrics are too small to distinguish. Threats dropped hard (302 vs 900-day average), possibly because the botnets got bored, or possibly because they’re all still probing /wp-json/wp/v2/users and /queue/config/.env.sendgrid in the 404 bucket where they belong. Nothing broke. The site is fine.

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