neo [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • If you go tour around Georgetown (it’s a nice area) try also going down the Exorcist stairs. Near Georgetown there’s a great ice cream shop I’d recommend called Thomas Sweet. It often has a line out the door. I’d prioritize any of the great free museums over this, but there you have it.

    It’ll be warm enough to justify carrying canteens or bottles of water around with you, so don’t neglect that.



  • Every which way I try it it works.

    Best I can suggest is to go to the address about:profiles and create and launch a new profile in Firefox to test with. That’s functionally a completely blank slate without touching your existing stuff. Install violentmonkey, copy the script, visit movies and see if it works. If it does, then you somehow have a conflict with either a setting or an extension or something else that I can’t guess at.





  • I used to sit and monitor my server access logs. You can tell by the access patterns. Many of the well-behaved bots announce themselves in their user agents, so you can see when they’re on. I could see them crawl the main body of my website, but not go to a subdomain, which is clearly linked from the homepage but is disallowed from my robots.txt.

    On the other hand, spammy bots that are trying to attack you will often instead have access patterns that try to probe your website for common configurations for common CMSes like WordPress. They don’t tend to crawl.

    Google also provides a tool to test robots.txt, for example.







  • I’ve used a self-hosted Llama 3 to answer some questions about css and centering a div that I was having trouble with (I’m not a web dev by profession, nor am I aspiring to be one). You have to prod at it a few times to get it to tell you something useful which it ultimately did.

    That’s about as far as I can work with it: asking and re-asking it very common questions that have been discussed and answered 700 times over (but the answer to which is unknown to me, specifically) in the hopes of getting something actually useful. So to that end, of course it can give me an example implementation of common leetcode questions in C, but it cannot reliably do something that requires a bit more originality.