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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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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
Using EditorConfig to improve coding style consistency
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 Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-21
Running a simple Django website in Docker
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.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-14