Metrics

TelemetryDeck countries graph, showing 16.67% users coming from each of the countries United States, Netherlands, Moldova and Germany. The remaining 33.3% is from Cambodia.

It’s always fun to see if people visit your site or blog. It can be useful too, so you know what subjects are popular. I mostly just write for fun, but if you’re aiming for results, you’re going to need some data.

TelemetryDeck

The minute you’re adding analytics tools to your site or app, however, you’re dealing with your visitor’s / user’s privacy. I prefer to use tools that treat user data with care. In the case of this blog, which is made with Hugo, I’m now using TelemetryDeck. I like that TelemetryDeck does not collect any personally identifiable information. On top of that, up to 100K signals per month, it’s free to use. (And no, I don’t have stocks, I just really care about privacy, and I know the people at TelemetryDeck do too!)

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Hacked

As I wanted to set up my new blog, I found that past me already created a repo on GitHub for it. There was only an index.html with the words “Hello world!”. So far, so good. But when I used my custom domain name, I ended up on some vague gambling site, which was definitely not mine. Was I hacked? How was this possible, I set up 2FA everywhere?!

First I checked at my domain hosting provider (Hover). Everything looked normal there. And the direct link to my GitHub Pages looked fine too. I noticed that the custom domain name in the settings of my blog’s repo wasn’t filled in, so I did that, but couldn’t save my changes. That domain name was already taken. WHAT?! This is my domain!

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Hello world

Today I set up my new blog. While doing so, I found that my custom domain redirection was hacked. Also, I’m afraid that tomorrow I don’t remember how to do this anymore. Maybe I’m getting too old for this.

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