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Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato's sites, Rockin Houston. The aging site is fairly inefficient with a lot of data, and the bot was causing high load on our DB server. I have implemented a PHP blocker for certain IPs, but I wanted something more broadly applicable. I made a rate limiting rule on Cloudflare that should block this type of behavior and prevent it from even hitting our server once the rule triggers.

After hours of playing and learning some details of vimscript, I have improved the autocomplete in vim almost to where I like it. I've made it work more like some GUI editors, eg Sublime and Atom, where it pops open automatically as I type and I can tab to apply the selected choice or otherwise type on and ignore it, and otherwise clean up the experience. The main thing I would like to add is fuzzy matching. I'd also like it to match more in-document words and work for more unknown file-types in a generic way.

I'm quite glad to see labels (similar to GMail's) are finally landing in Fastmail. Continue reading post "#2897"

Firefox tag groups / panorama has been removed from Firefox proper. Luckily, t…