Isaac Bythewood's Blog

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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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
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Creating a dark, or light, version of your website may seem like a daunting task if you think you need an entirely new color pallet. It's 2022 though and we have the widely supported invert CSS filter.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-02
Cool URIs don't change, unless an AI rewrites your blog
Cool URIs don't change, unless an AI rewrites your blog
I let an AI port my blog from Django to Flask and it quietly moved every post URL, which I didn't catch for about a week.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-29