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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.
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.
2022-05-21
Running a simple Django website in Docker
Using Docker to run a simple production and development environments with a few extras thrown in. Easily customized to your preferred language or framework.
2022-05-14
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.
2022-07-02