Dariusz Więckiewicz 🇵🇱

After a bit of a fight with abusive crawlers pretending to be BingBot, which started draining the 100GB allowance on my Free (legacy) Netlify account, I decided that I would move the fight to a different playground – Cloudflare. I have been thinking about moving from Netlify to Cloudflare for over two years, but with all the transitions surrounding Cloudflare Pages, I have been waiting until the dust settles and the path with Cloudflare Workers finally becomes the default option. Now, it is time to try again. With my limited options (on Netlify’s free tier) in the fight against bots, and after reading the post 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots alongside recent features introduced for this purpose on Cloudflare, I decided it would be worthwhile to test the waters and see how it goes. Despite my legacy Netlify Free accounts for a couple of my projects being quite generous, any new project I create requires me to use their credit-based pricing model, which is not nearly as forgiving. This is why I started exploring Cloudflare, especially since all my domains are already managed through it. There were several differences and challenges that I needed to resolve along the way (such as contact forms and redirects). For this reason, I am documenting the process in the form of a journal – both for my own reference and for anyone else looking to take this path.

Hell has frozen over once again. I have been using Avast on my Windows computers for years and it has worked wonders. I have not encountered any infections and it has protected me from several threats that I have encountered.

Even though I’m not a fan of excessive photo editing, sometimes even the best-taken photo just cries out for a little TLC (as the English say, “touch love care”). There are a ton of apps on the AppStore (and Google Play) that will help you achieve your goals. Some have just a few useful options, while others have limitations that force you to reach into your wallet to get what you want. I’ve recently been going through a ton of apps to find the one that has everything I need to achieve the desired effect.

Unlike iOS devices where we install (and update) all applications from the App Store, when it comes to macOS, the situation is a bit more complicated.

For over a couple years my employers website been served from shared hosting solution on Namesco. On recent years however, we feel that we been left behind. It started with just PHP, where we stick with the 7.3 version without not plan to go into 7.4 and not thinking even with 8.0. Until significant issues with performance of the servers (where even Customer Support couldn’t help without persuading you to migrate to dedicated servers), it was time to think what’s next.