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🔗 The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Home Network

About a year ago, I set up some honeypots on my home network, laying out digital mousetraps for bots.

At first, I didn't believe it—thousands of attacks hammer my unremarkable home network daily. I am not a bank, nor on a government facility, but just a random Joe Schmoe's home router.

#Security #Internet

🔗 Here’s What It Was like to Build a Website in the 90s

Building a website in those days was undeniably different. The web design industry was nascent – if it existed at all. Standards and best practices were still years away. Web designers had to adapt existing tools for this new medium.

We made a lot of mistakes. But that’s OK. The lessons learned in that era have brought us to the present.

#WebDev #Internet