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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 Isaac Bythewood
2026-10-14

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Generating a ED25519 SSH key with OpenSSH
Generating a ED25519 SSH key with OpenSSH
OpenSSH has deprecated RSA keys. Time to swap to ED25519 with a few quick commands as well as an easy way to ease into the swap with host key configurations.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-07
Capturing screenshots with Chromium using Python
Capturing screenshots with Chromium using Python
Sometimes you need to take screenshots of the web and Chromium provides an easy way to do that.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-08-06
Code formatting a Python project in 2022
Code formatting a Python project in 2022
For those who want a quick solution without reading all of PEP 8. The Black Python module has a fully automated solution for you.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-30