Bots Are Eating My Blog for Lunch
Peter digs into why his server was suddenly overloaded and finds a swarm of bots chewing through his blog.
Peter digs into why his server was suddenly overloaded and finds a swarm of bots chewing through his blog.
11 Jun 2025 | Link post
A look back at the simpler days of PHP and jQuery, when building websites was fast and easy. Now, modern tools often add more hassle than help—sometimes less really is more.
01 Jun 2025 | Link post
Some thoughts about what Joel expects out of blogging regularly, or having a website at all.
10 Apr 2025 | Link post
Keenan talks about their love of Toxic by Britney Spears. Great song, great post.
17 Jan 2025 | Link post
This whole WordPress saga is getting more and more ridiculous. This is the latest step by Automattic to further fuck things up for themselves.
10 Jan 2025 | Link post
I knew SQLite was a cool project, but this great post show how interesting the project is.
03 Jan 2025 | Link post
Manu writes about his opinions on Substack vs blogging and owning your content. I heartily agree!
04 Dec 2024 | Link post
I watched this video last night and I was utterly enthralled throughout the entire thing. In this video, a nun answers random questions all about her life, religion and a all kinds of other stuff.
20 Nov 2024 | Blog post
Matt, the co-founder of WordPress, writes about how WP Engine is a “cancer to WordPress” because they disable revisions.
22 Sep 2024 | Link post
Lou talks about the recent loss of his son's much loved dog, Osa. Be warned, you'll need tissues at the ready!
01 Sep 2024 | Link post
While still in its infancy, there's one feature that Scott would *love* to see on Mastodon - the ability to post locally only.
01 Sep 2024 | Link post
A parody of the "Wear Sunscreen" thing from the late 90s. This is just fabulous.
17 Jul 2024 | Link post
Keenan goes into great detail on the trials and tribulations of building a new Eleventy site while possessing very little development experience.
05 Jul 2024 | Link post
Manu talks about the ongoing issues with AI scraping the web and what are options are, as site owners, to prevent it.
24 Jun 2024 | Link post
Brandon talks about his desire to write less about blogging. I'm not sure I agree though.
19 Jun 2024 | Link post
Chat with someone for two minutes, and try to figure out if it was a fellow human or an AI bot. Think you can tell the difference?
06 Jun 2024 | Link post
Manu talks about self-promotion on his site, how it concerns him and whether others find it annoying, or see it as advertising.
26 Apr 2024 | Link post
Niq talks about segregating your email and not publishing your personal email where possible. One email address ain't gonna cut it these days.
09 Mar 2024 | Link post
Chris talks about the challenges he's faced since selling CSS-Tricks to Digital Ocean, and where his head has been at since.
01 Mar 2024 | Link post
Rach turned off the analytics on her site as she now finds them boring. This post contains the best quote ever.
29 Jan 2024 | Link post
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