How I Fingerprint My Own API to Catch Scrapers
Trap streets, phantom records, and the watermarking tricks that catch scrapers
Mar 31, 202612 min read64
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Building Tripvento
A raw, technical build in public series documenting how I'm building Tripvento from zero — a B2B travel API that ranks hotels using geospatial intelligence and semantic AI. No fluff, no vanity metrics. Just real decisions, real code, and real tradeoffs from a solo engineer shipping fast.
Your API Is Leaking Source Fingerprints. Here's How to Stop It.
Why transformed data still reveals where it came from
Mar 24, 20268 min read13
I Prompt Injected My Own GitHub README. Then I Built a Honeypot.
How a practical joke turned into an LLM honeypot, two free security tools, and a canary endpoint that fingerprints AI scrapers.
Mar 17, 202622 min read394
Zero Public Ports: How I Secured my B2B API Against 10k Scraper Requests
I built security for "no one's looking." The open web is "everyone's looking." This is the post mortem of closing that gap. The thesis: identity + perimeter shift + observability beats reactive blocking.
Mar 3, 202623 min read82
I Removed One Line of Django Code and My API Got 95ms Faster
When my API slowed down, I didn’t add Redis. I didn’t upgrade the droplet. I opened a Django shell and started measuring.
Feb 24, 20269 min read68
How I Built a Self Auditing Data Pipeline With Multiple LLMs
Cheapest checks first: A 64 cent, multi model pipeline that audits itself.
Feb 17, 202612 min read91