Christian "Schepp" SchaeferFeb 24

Wondered why our latest podcast episode didn’t show up on https://workingdraft.de this morning. In our headless WP we preschedule releases and @11ty builds the front facing site daily. Turns out an AI bot broke the build: our log-parsing stats step choked on its UA string:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)

"if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble" 🖕

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Show threadLarge Heydon ColliderFeb 24
@Schepp @11ty 🤦‍♂️
Show threadTom AnypuppiesFeb 24
@heydon @Schepp @11ty haha this bot also went straight into my honeypot*… repeatedly.
* a directory on my website that only is mentioned in the robots.txt with a disallow and not linked anywhere.
so this motherboardfucker (excuse my french) is actually looking in the robots.txt but then sees a disallow as an invite
Show threadChristian "Schepp" Schaefer
@webrocker @heydon @11ty
Feb 24 at 9:13amMastodon for Android
Show threadTom AnypuppiesFeb 24
@Schepp @heydon @11ty maybe they should have worked on the thinktwice bot instead
Show threadChristian "Schepp" SchaeferFeb 24
@webrocker @heydon @11ty 😂