How I Fingerprint My Own API to Catch Scrapers
Trap streets, phantom records, and the watermarking tricks that catch scrapers
Mar 31, 202612 min read62
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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 read383
How I'm Building a Content Factory That Catches Its Own AI Slop
Generating 150 pages with AI is easy. Generating 150 pages that don't read like AI wrote them is the actual problem.
Mar 11, 202614 min read17
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 read80
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