Weekly Report: 18th November 2019

Image Uploads on FrontierNav

I wrote a separate post about this since it's a bit long.

Weird Traffic

For some reason, Cloudflare has started to report an ever-increasing number of "Unique Visitors". Currently, it stands at 4 times the usual levels. It'd be great if that was true but I'm doubtful.

My access logs, which avoid Cloudflare's cache, say it's more or less the same as before. Cloudflare's other metrics like "Total Requests" are also the same as before. Nothing else is following this new trend. So there's no reason to believe it.

GitHub Actions

I noticed node-terraform's automated publish workflow wasn't get triggered when new version tags were pushed. I use the exact same trigger for FrontierNav and it works fine. The only difference is that I manually push tags for FrontierNav, whereas node-terraform's is pushed by another workflow.

I'm kind of burnt out from debugging GitHub Actions so I'm giving it a break. It's probably an issue on their end or yet another caveat like a lot of the previous issues I had.

Google Search is Trash

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for over a year now. Everything's been good, and having the !g command to fallback to Google has helped ease the transition to a less forgiving service.

However, I noticed something: Google is become worse at being a search engine as time goes on. It's full of "SEO" trash websites. The results are useless without basically telling it what website to search through using the site: keyword. The top half of the first page is always full of auto-generated junk too.

I don't know how long this trend will last, but I'm becoming more and more reliant on my bookmarks nowadays to find specific sites and run searches through them.

Thanks for reading.