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A crawler on 20,000 home IPs showed up after I blocked Meta
I blocked Meta for ignoring my robots.txt and then my git browser started getting a request every few seconds, each one from a different home internet connection.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-10-14
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An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own assistant on a 9B at home and the tool calling loop in it is a few hundred lines of Go, most of which is there to stop it offering to look something up instead of looking it up.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
The Rust ecosystem is unreasonably good
A second pass on the Rust port of my blog, where I dropped the chromium PDF subprocess for embedded Typst. Some notes on axum, comrak, minijinja and Typst.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-09
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Creating a dark, or light, version of your website may seem like a daunting task if you think you need an entirely new color pallet. It's 2022 though and we have the widely supported invert CSS filter.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-02