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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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Using EditorConfig to improve coding style consistency
EditorConfig has been around for almost a decade at this point. It is widely supported by many editors natively and many more with plugins.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-21
Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Many Linux distros have a way to configure automated updates but somewhat surprisingly Alpine Linux does not.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-16
Self-host your fonts
The shared cache argument for Google Fonts died in 2020 and the privacy argument was never great. Self-hosting with @fontsource is a one line change.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-03