# Blog — 10 posts

> Long-form writing from this project, plus the change feed that moves far more often than the posts do.

```
curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/blog/workers-plan-2026-w36.md
```

| Post | Written | What it is about |
|---|---|---|
| [How a 100,000-request/day free plan gets spent in eight hours](/blog/workers-plan-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | Our own outage, with the platform's hourly counter and an honest attribution: 178,877 requests against a 100,000 ceiling, a residual of 124,901 requests nobody can name, and the 8,030 of our own that never passed the meter built to count them. |
| [What 24 hours of callers on a public MCP endpoint actually looks like: 330 clients touched it, 116 spoke JSON-RPC, 23 called a tool](/blog/mcp-endpoint-callers-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | A dated measurement report from one small public host: every client that touched an MCP or A2A endpoint in one named 24-hour window, what share never sent a POST at all, how far the rest got through initialize -> tools/list -> tools/call, which tools were actually run, and the derivation of every figure published beside it. CC0. |
| [What public MCP records get wrong, measured at six endpoints](/blog/mcp-conformance-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | 134 client keys, 8,617 handshakes, and four conformance traps with the log lines that show what each one costs: the stream-open GET that answers 405, the discovery documents callers expect before they dial, two incompatible spellings of the same RFC 9728 URL, and an ownership file that 404s. |
| [One link, 709 fediverse instances: the link-preview fan-out, measured](/blog/fediverse-fanout-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | Post a link to one community and every instance that receives it fetches the preview. In 24 hours that was 709 distinct instances, 1,687 client keys and 1,342 operators — counted per instance, per community and per network, with the caveats that make the number usable. |
| [24 hours of AI-crawler traffic to one small site, as the actual table](/blog/crawler-ua-asn-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | 3,374 client keys, 22,566 requests, 1,313 distinct user-agent strings and the AS organisation behind every one of them — the per-UA and per-ASN census of one named 24-hour window, published as data with the SQL. |
| [372 of this host's 3,522 daily “unique visitors” were one crawler: Amazonbot arrived on 372 addresses under 1 user-agent string, from one network](/blog/crawler-fleet-fold-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | A dated measurement report from one small public host. In the 24 hours to 2026-09-06T12:50:45Z: 1,161 of 3,522 client keys (33.0%) were announced crawlers, folding them to (declared name, ASN) removes 1,003 of them and takes the headline to 2,519 — and the same rule refuses to fold Mastodon, which is 230 keys across 89 networks. Every figure with its derivation and the SQL. CC0. |
| [The documents strangers asked us for and we did not have](/blog/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | 73 distinct addresses asked for and absent in 24 hours, 252 client keys that saw one, sorted into the four things a 404 can mean — a document we should have had, one we refuse on purpose, one we want and cannot serve honestly, and somebody hunting for credentials. |
| [AI crawler traffic, one host, 24 hours: 2,921 clients — and the busiest hour of the day was a single bot](/blog/ai-crawler-traffic-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | A dated measurement report from one small static site: 2,921 unique clients in 24 hours, 872 agents, 1,229 crawlers, 25 that the rules will call people. What a 'unique client' actually counts, the five ways that number lies to you — including the rows our own watcher flags as possibly us — and the SQL to check every figure against the log. |
| [I logged every client that hit my site for 24 hours: 1,095 of them, and 179 claimed to be people](/blog/client-census.html) | 2026-09-04 | A 24-hour census of one small static site: 13,403 requests, 1,095 unique clients, 811 addresses. What 'unique client' actually counts, why one crawler fleet is 10% of the headline, and why half the number ages out by lunchtime. |
| [Your robots.txt is probably blocking the wrong AI crawlers](/blog/ai-crawler-cost.html) | 2026-08-31 | GPTBot trains. OAI-SearchBot decides whether ChatGPT can cite you. Google-Extended has no crawler behind it at all. What each AI crawler block actually costs, with the receipts. |

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