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I’ve been looking around on how to get some statistics from my blog, especially regarding the number of visitors. Sadly the current solution (GitHub pages) does not seem to natively support this kind of statistics without adding third party tracking. After looking around for different solutions Cloudflare caught my attention. I know that among others, Troy Hunt writes about and uses Cloudflare, so I decided to give it a try. Migrating from GitHub pages to Cloudflare pages was as easy as configuring what GitHub repo to use in Cloudflare, picking Jekyll and then it just worked. Right after the page was built you see some basic statistics, such as the amount of request grouped by country. Below the first hours of traffic is shown in a map, as presented by Cloudflare. ...

In my role I always have to balance how I should spend my time. I usually have one project I’m currently working on, and a couple that are in the planning phase for the future. In addition there are requests of different sizes that interrupt any schedule. I love this dynamic, but it isn’t always easy. I’ve been using a simple todo software for quite a while now, to keep track of my tasks. However, I have used the list in an ad hoc manner. Not having a routine in my task management meant that the list always was incomplete. About a month ago I had enough and began figuring out a better way to organise my life. Without having reached the final and optimal organisation routine I wish to share my thoughts so far. ...