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Weeknotes: Aug. 28 - Sept. 4, 2026
Bellevue Botanical Garden - Joe Pye Weed / Eutrochium maculatum 'Gateway' Highlight of the week: saw my niece and met her partner Looking forward to: seeing Coyote vs. Acme with my friend Stuff I did: 5 hours book outline went to Bellevue Botanical Garden
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Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.) Basically, I wanted to know how "big" of an issue bot traffic is on my site since I've read some general reports from other bloggers. Some people are
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The betrayal of perceived allies
I appreciated Newsonaut's recent post arguing that we should keep supporting Firefox, as well as the Hacker News discussion about it. I am one of the people who got so annoyed at Mozilla in the past couple years that I switched my primary browser to Vival
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Formatting as courtesy to the reader
Formatted text (especially bullet points with the first sentence bolded) seems to be twigging some people that it's AI-generated. (I've mostly seen people share Reddit posts where they're dismissed as being machines.) I also saw someone note that bolded k
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My emergency food supply is extra normal food
While most emergency preparation in the PNW focuses on "The Big One," I've realized the most common scenarios in which we actually need emergency food and water are: winter storm power outages (1-4 days, 1-3 times a year) and water main breaks (we had a t
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