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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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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
Caddy configuration for Django with some sensible defaults
Caddy is a great web server with sensible defaults but there a few things that I need to configure to have perfect synergy with Django.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-06-04
Using Vite with Django in 2026
I ran webpack on every Django project I had for years but in 2026 I use Vite instead, with no wrapper package involved, and this is the whole setup I use.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-26