About 4 years ago, I looked into how
effective my SSH tarpits were. Since then, I've also deployed an AI
crawler tarpit (technically a maze - it generates an endless number
of pages) to serve "content" up to crawlers who ignore my "No
Entry…
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August 8, 2026
♠ Problem statement: a terraform
project planned clean locally (terraform plan), but CI insisted on a
diff. Every apply fixed it for one side and broke it for the other,
back-and-forth. The culprit was a null_resource that rebuilds an AWS
Lambda for a Node…
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August 7, 2026
Today, for the first time in years -
probably 20 or so - I drove to London. I didn’t really want to drive
to London, and it is daft that it was even a credible option. I’d
much prefer to take public transport and, when I go to London for
work, I do. Thankfully…
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July 25, 2026