From ad00cd338caef558b5ef729562c3492b9e0b65ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nek0 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 20:01:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] new post --- site/posts/2022-08-07-Step-by-step.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 site/posts/2022-08-07-Step-by-step.md diff --git a/site/posts/2022-08-07-Step-by-step.md b/site/posts/2022-08-07-Step-by-step.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4055589 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/posts/2022-08-07-Step-by-step.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: Step by step +author: nek0 +tags: +- english +- meta +description: "Life goes on and throws new challenges at everyone, myself included" +--- + +Hi folks, + +I thought it's time for a little update and changes that happened and will happen. + +First off some technical changes that happened in the background of all my pages: Roughly a year +ago I decided to install and configure [matomo](https://matomo.org) to get some metrics about my +readership. I tried to use it for a year and tried to understand the graphs and numbers it threw at +me, Also the maintainance effort rose, as the software seems to be rather unstable. I always +managed to recover it, but a rather nasty outage convinced me, that the software might be both a +bad fit for me and a disservice on you. + +I underwent what now I see as a failed experiment with a little bit of a bad conscience, as I +usually am very against the tracking of people, not only on the internet, but in general and only +managed to justify that to me as I would host the service myself and not share the data anywhere. +So I did basically a 180 degree turn, purged matomo from my server and now I resort to analyzing +the log files of my web server using the application [goaccess](htps://goaccess.io). Additionally +I configured the web server to not store the IP addresses and the user agent strings for any +request. As a bonus the reports generated by goaccess appear more meaningful to me than the matomo +reports ever looked. + +Secondly, my treatment in hospital came to an end about a month ago and I am slowly returning to +my old job since then. As you can see I still maintain my upload schedule for my comic, but +unfortunately producing new pages has been slowed down a bit. This will not affect the upload +schedule for the time being, as my buffer of finished pages is still large enough. I hope to return +to my old pace of producing new pages soon. I just need to sort some stuff out and get accustomed +to working a dayjob again. + +So far for this very overdue update from me. I also plan on posting more frequently again here and +already have two ideas for blog posts forming in my head, which I hope will be very helpful each in +their own way. + +See you around. + +Keep calm and wash hands.