Week in Review: Week 44, 2025

published 11/02/25

It was a big relief to wrap up exploring the mountain of Apache Access Log data I had accumulated over the years. The amount of junk traffic that my server processes was pretty surprising. Also surprising was all the requests that appeared to be looking for security vulnerabilities. Does a request with ADMIN_DEBUG=true ever really work?? I mean I guess it must sometimes work or else people wouldn't bother trying?

Highlights

• worked 40:00, no PTO
• published Evaluating Apache Access Log Data on here
• published Using Style Guides to Drive Website Design on here

Next Week

At this point I'm now working on creating an analytics section so I can look at summaries of the data and page through months to see how things have changed over time. I'll use that as my finish line. But I'll also have to re-think some of my approaches. What I was doing locally on my laptop just isn't going to work on a Heroku server. I'm starting to get a picture of an ETL pipeline in my head so I'll need to connect that up with whatever pages I end up building. Should be fun!