Earth Notes: On Website Technicals (2026-05)
Updated 2026-05-04 19:48 GMT.By Damon Hart-Davis.
Tech updates: Podbean quiet...
Even more sun due: though already significantly net-exporting and having filled up all energy stores a couple of times last month, this month sees if we can still usefully shape exports to be grid-friendly as the summer solstice nears...
: Podbean Vanished?
Since about the Podbean wild polling has evaporated, with the last couple of obvious entries:
3.228.X.X - - [22/Apr/2026:14:19:49 +0000] "GET /rss/podcast.rss HTTP/1.1" 200 150293 "-" "Podbean/5.6 FeedParser" 51.81.X.X - - [23/Apr/2026:14:28:47 +0000] "GET /rss/podcast.rss HTTP/2.0" 429 711 "-" "Podbean/FeedUpdate 2.1"
There has been only one obvious Podbean poll since the start of this month from
Podbean/FeedUpdate 2.1 so I wonder if something finally noticed no updates to the feed since mid-January?
Meanwhile the naughty list is:
# A non-empty txt map lookup of the %{md5:%{HTTP:User-Agent}} means bad!
# Built: 2026-05-03T08:14+00:00 (UTC)
# MAXHITSPERUAPERDAY: 10
# MAXUAS: 25
#----------------
# request-count User-Agent
# MD5hash approx-hits-per-day
#----------------
# 203 Spotify/1.0
4582d9bdbcef42af27d89da91c6eb804 203
# 138 Google-Podcast
8dea568b39db0451edd6b30f29238eaf 138
# 95 atomstr/0.9.13
fed9820e6b1b919d848e718e0bf49e41 95
# 75 Amazon Music Podc
d69be2563c9f1929edf2906d41809aea 75
# 62 iTMS
97f76eb7e02c5ff923e1198ff1c288cd 62
# 31 MuckRackFeedParse
62b46fff1cf5f8af7b4b37a2f783b57a 31
# 27 axios/1.6.8
b534882134248c9a5957e0c011a37037 27
# 19 itms
2e7f714a929b3f52f3c094710819a99a 19
# 17 Mozilla/5.0 (Wind
6b9a00393fb1607b0ada13520f814ab5 17
# 17 Mozilla/5.0 Apple
fac378ac3b3d3886829021b3309d4fd1 17
# 12 Mozilla/5.0 (Maci
c6ad665e86260e0f285ae36e4f62e527 12
uptime
15:30:00 up 244 days, 3:00, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.96, 0.76
Utility summary
At 16WW over 7 days from 2026-04-27 to 2026-05-04: electricity import 0.5kWh/d (net -9.8kWh/d).
At 16WW over 14 days from 2026-04-20 to 2026-05-04: electricity import 0.5kWh/d (net -11.6kWh/d).
At 16WW over 28 days from 2026-04-06 to 2026-05-04: electricity import 0.6kWh/d (net -9.5kWh/d).
At 16WW over 368 days from 2025-05-01 to 2026-05-04: electricity import 3.1kWh/d (net -1.6kWh/d).