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A week ago someone kept hammering my traffic — see the post Notice: This Site Was Recently Hit by Malicious Traffic. Today, past 4 a.m., every monitoring channel started howling at me through app, DingTalk, email, and SMS: another scan. Fortunately, having been burned last time, I already had countermeasures ready, so there was essentially no damage.
Starting 2022-04-27 22:18:22, this site came under hostile traffic from a China Telecom residential broadband line in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Here's the post-incident breakdown. Please browse this site normally and politely.
Many people don't know grassroots webmasters exist. I got into the website-building scene back in high school, and I'm one of them. Our crowd runs personal sites, personal blogs, hobby-sharing sites — we're basically the bottom layer of the internet, mostly gathered around shared interests, and most of us will never make a cent.
Webmasters know Alexa well. It has long focused on worldwide website ranking stats — alongside the old Google PageRank, Alexa rank was one of the metrics we used to judge whether a site was successful. Now Alexa is shutting down.
In software design and development you can't avoid dealing with text. A designer hands over a mockup, the developer eyedroppers the color and hardcodes it — then the day you change the theme or background, the result is horrendous. Here's what I've learned about text color.
Google has long supported proactive URL submission, but it's not a point-and-click UI for ordinary users — it's an API for programmers. Plenty of webmasters aren't developers, and since Google requires ownership verification, I can't just build a UI where people paste their own private key. Instead I wrapped Google's API to make it easier to use.
This tool uses the webmaster tools or open platform APIs of Baidu, Bing and Google to push site updates to search engines immediately, speeding up crawling and indexing.
Last week Alibaba Cloud announced a product update: it has joined the Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance, offering Alibaba Cloud users highly competitive storage pricing — including free traffic from Cloudflare CDN back to OSS origin.
Three days ago, two malicious commits were pushed into the php-src repository maintained by the PHP team on its git.php.net server. Both commits faked signatures — his own, and that of PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf.
The IETF announced that TLS 1.0 (RFC 2246) and TLS 1.1 (RFC 4346) are formally deprecated. These versions lack support for current and recommended cryptographic algorithms and mechanisms.
