Building a Personal NOC: I Needed to Know If Anyone Actually Uses My Shit

I built three sites. All on GitHub Pages. All costing $0 to run. And I had absolutely no idea if anyone was actually using them. BETA (beta.trenigma.dev) - Cascade climbing conditions tool Blog (blog.trenigma.dev) - This thing you’re reading littlelink (littlelink.trenigma.dev) - Link-in-bio page They all worked. GitHub Actions deployed them. DNS resolved. SSL certs were valid. Cool. But like… were people visiting? Which pages? From where? Was the site actually fast or just fast for me on my gigabit connection in Seattle? ...

March 17, 2026 · 7 min · Tree