Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

Some light reading on blocking AI crawlers

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

I need to commit my code more often One thing I realized this week is that I need to commit my work to Git more often. I am not sure if it was my year hiatus or just not thinking about it and being intentional, but I have gotten in the habit of not committing […]

Web related links worth saving

These are links I've liked or otherwise found interesting. They're all added manually, after having been read and properly considered.

Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.

A collection of interesting links and sites

Matthias is feeling the brunt of bots relentlessly hitting his personal website: I sat there staring at those logs for a while. The irony wasn’t lost on me. This is my little corner of the web. My writing. With my weird little style mixer up there in the top right.…

If you're tired of AI visiting your website and want to stop it, then do it slightly differently in order to make it harder for the AI.

Website of Ben Crowder.

What I've been up to this month. Reading, watching, listening, collecting, and exploring interesting links across the web.

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.