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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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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
An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own assistant on a 9B at home and the tool calling loop in it is a few hundred lines of Go, most of which is there to stop it offering to look something up instead of looking it up.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
Zero downtime deploys with Caddy
One line in Caddy holds requests while a Docker container is replaced, so a deploy looks like a slow page instead of a 502.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-10-03