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Web
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wwwjim: Jimmy Lee's personal site
Jimmy Lee's personal site — a webmaster's portfolio at jimmyl.ee. Saved as an example of personal web presence with a self-described focus on websites, web applications, and web services.
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.
Topography Explorer: interactive terrain visualization
Topography Explorer is a web tool for visualizing topographic elevation data interactively — browse terrain, contours, and elevation gradients across the globe using open elevation datasets.
How to Set Up a Practically Free CDN
A GitHub gist guide to setting up a practically free CDN for personal projects using Cloudflare and free-tier object storage. Covers the stack for serving static assets globally without paying enterprise CDN prices.
A Book About Bandit Algorithms
John Myles White's free book on bandit algorithms for website optimization — covers epsilon-greedy, softmax, UCB, and Thompson Sampling with practical web application examples. An accessible bridge from theory to product experimentation.
GIF Creator Steve Wilhite Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby
NYT Bits blog on Steve Wilhite receiving a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 for inventing the GIF format in 1987. The occasion for Wilhite to definitively pronounce it 'JIF' — a declaration that settled nothing.