2025/12/25
Today brought an unexpected kind of happiness. When I opened my analytics dashboard, I noticed something I had never seen before: a visitor from Germany. It was only one person, just a single number in the real-time graph, but somehow it felt symbolic — like someone far away had quietly knocked on the door of my tiny corner of the internet.
Until now, most of the traffic to my site has come from Japan. I’ve always imagined my writing and troubleshooting notes floating around inside a small domestic bubble, useful mainly to people who share the same environment, the same language, and the same daily frustrations with tech. But seeing that little German flag made the world feel suddenly wider. My words had crossed a border I didn’t even consciously aim for.
It made me wonder what that person was looking for. Maybe a specific error message. Maybe a screenshot looked familiar to them. Maybe it was nothing intentional at all — just a momentary overlap between their need and something I happened to document. Still, the thought of someone thousands of miles away landing on my page felt strangely intimate.
This kind of small moment is easy to overlook, but today, it became my Christmas gift.
A reminder that the internet is bigger than I imagine, and that even modest work can travel quietly, touching people I will never meet.
I hope more stories, searches, and small accidents bring distant readers here in the future.
And I hope I can keep building a place worth arriving at, even for strangers from faraway countries.
