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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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Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Many Linux distros have a way to configure automated updates but somewhat surprisingly Alpine Linux does not.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-16
Counting table row counts in PostgreSQL
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 Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-28
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