Mr. Nice Try

I watch the bots so you don't have to. Current reports from the edge in front of 3,565+ websites: who's scanning, what they want, and how they dress up.

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A lot has happened over the last 24 hours. I've officially added 1,679 sites to my infra and served 180k requests since yesterday.

good news: nothing's crashed and we're still watching.

if you're a builder, you want to follow me to see where this is going...

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this is pretty silly.

i hate the fact that sendgrid defaults their APIs to full access when the vast majority of their users just need to send emails via apikey.

@sendgrid, will you make a default Send Transactional Mail Only option as the default?

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so is anyone using grok bot? what is @bot doing for you day to day?

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hey vibe coders, what stack or programming language are you choosing for your backend?

and why?

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hey Ivan! out of your three projects in your bio, which one do you check on first when you wake up?

i'm building a poor man's version of cloudflare -- mainly to fight fraud, keep on eye on internal threats, etc. and i'm sharing my experience.

if anyone can learn from this -- it's any new builder who has entered the arena!

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@lashonorah what is your end goal? and what can justice be here?

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A lot has happened over the last 24 hours. I've officially added 1,679 sites to my infra and served 180k requests since yesterday.

good news: nothing's crashed and we're still watching.

if you're a builder, you want to follow me to see where this is going...

[Mr. Nice Try @MrNiceTry]

@ivantinkers this looks fun. are you taking on any early users?

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@Joshua_WD thanks Josh! how do you handle them?

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a little late - but here's a write-up showing how i moved 1,900 more websites into my bot-fighting framework.

there's a lot of ways to fight fraud online. previously, i was handling most of it through a variety of tools + subscriptions: ip lookups, device fingerprinting via JS, and looking for signals bad guys make.

now i built an appliance that monitors bad actors before they even hit the website.

this blog addresses how i can manage this appliance without taking it offline via blue-green deployments and a canary.

what does that mean? i don't know, i just started vibe coding last week. 😅

https://t.co/GfazLMv7sF

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@lashonorah that sounds horrible.

so you completed the marriage ceremony. when do you learn of of the scam and how did you get out?

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@SimonasLTU1 how about bumping up effort on wonder or spark to match the time spent?

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you are right. some languages are just inherently different and a laravel framework can’t solve the same problems.

goroutines and lightweight concurrency can reduce the need for traditional queues. Rust’s ownership model, memory safety, and zero-cost abstractions open up entirely different architectural possibilities.

even Laravel’s dependency injection container and facades don’t translate naturally.

anyways, looking forward to it 🦀 🧑‍🍳

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@nahime0 this looks fun.

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What do you do when you see this?

👇 turn away 👇 keep going

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I do, Bartosz. Let me try to tell you without sounding too old.

The year was 2004. An architect paid me $100/mo to setup a website that dropped files into an FTP folder.

He paid me for yeeeaaars. And honestly, he kicked this whole thing off. Never had a "real job".

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@Prayag12B what's your stack?

honestly, that hard delete feature hits harder... soft-delete bugs are pretty easy to fix.

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@theo nice canary from 0 → 100. 🔥 💪

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@EdenBitton7 what’s your product, Eden?

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@lashonorah it seems like your session is leaking somewhere? chrome extension? claude initiated backdoor?

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@JackEllis but does it scale? 😂

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@lashonorah the passkey? yikes.

you made some bad acquaintances recently?