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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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It's Go all the way down
Every process in front of my websites is a Go binary now, from the tunnel to the web server to the sites themselves, and the whole stack runs on a desktop I already owned for a few dollars a month in power.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-08-30
Set up automated server backups with Borg
The Borg deduplicating backup program can automate daily, weekly, and monthly backups with a single script saving space and keeping data safe from mistakes.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-06-25
Counting table row counts in PostgreSQL
An easy way to count the number of rows in a PostgreSQL table and sort by totals allowing you to find what's taking up space in your database.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-28