How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers

[her.esy.fun]Dec 25, 2025

This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.

i'm just having fun

[jyn.dev]Dec 24, 2025

programming isn't a competition

Big GPUs don't need big PCs | Jeff Geerling

[jeffgeerling.com]Dec 24, 2025

Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

[pierce.dev]Dec 24, 2025

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.

Garage - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

[garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr]Dec 20, 2025

An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog

[ngrok.com]Dec 20, 2025

A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

[newsletter.squishy.computer]Dec 17, 2025

P2P and federated protocols converge toward becoming Nostr, but with extra steps

Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys (for Postgres) | Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

[andyatkinson.com]Dec 16, 2025

Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 41 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually have bad performance and excessive IO. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122#section-4.4 ↩

Use Python for Scripting!

[hypirion.com]Dec 16, 2025

"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.

"Are you the one?" is free money

[blog.owenlacey.dev]Dec 16, 2025

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