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Surviving the Hacker News Hug of Death on Home Fiber
May 2026 — on what it takes to make a Hugo blog on home fiber sit still while a thousand strangers ring the doorbell at the same time
Meten is Weten: How Installing Plausible on My Hugo Blog Led to a Three-Node BGP ECMP Varnish DaemonSet
It started with a single, innocent question: does anyone actually read this?
I’d been running this Hugo blog for a while, writing posts about the homelab, the cluster, the occasionally catastrophic self-inflicted incidents. At some point the thought surfaced that it would be nice to know whether the words were reaching anyone beyond me and the search indexer. So I installed Plausible — privacy-respecting analytics, no cookies, one config line in Hugo — and moved on.