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Bots
Bookmarks
Trap bots on your server
Maurycy's writeup on setting up a bot honeypot on your server — serving intentionally garbled content and endless links to trap and slow down scrapers. A practical defensive technique for server operators dealing with aggressive crawlers.
Tiny Subversions: Projects
Darius Kazemi's projects page showcasing his Twitter bots and generative art work — saved from an Eyeo 2016 presentation where he demonstrated how small algorithmic systems can produce surprising, humanlike outputs. One of the most thoughtful practitioners of bot-art.