Long-running services tend to slowly drift toward unbounded memory. Here's how I find that drift, how I think about fixing it without papering over it, and a worked example from StyloBot's vector...
Saturday, 09 May 2026 10:30
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21 minute read
Bot detection should not stop at allow/block. This post shows how StyloBot's classification result becomes application logic in ASP.NET - tag helpers in Razor, action filters and policies in...
Saturday, 02 May 2026 10:30
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21 minute read
Identity-based bot detection (IPs, user-agents, headers) collapses the moment automation starts rotating identities. StyloBot models clients as behavioural shapes in a 130+ dimensional vector space -...
Friday, 01 May 2026 10:30
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20 minute read
Well today was a BIT OF A DAY. I handed in my notice on one contract (been in it almost 2 years!) and my other contract decided to terminate...SO...at the end of May I'll be officially...
Thursday, 30 April 2026 14:50
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3 minute read
Most software still assumes the world will hand it clean inputs and stable rules.
Production usually does neither.
This post is the through-line behind a bunch of things I've been building: DiSE,...
Friday, 13 March 2026 10:30
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15 minute read
Enterprise bot detection shouldn't require a PhD in infrastructure (or thousands a month in expenditure to use!). Two lines of code, zero external services, and you're running (up to) 21 detectors in...
Monday, 16 February 2026 10:30
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20 minute read
Part 1 was the why. This is the show-and-tell tour of what StyloBot does that is rare in production bot stacks.
Thesis: StyloBot models bot detection as a progressive, early-exit topology of...
Sunday, 15 February 2026 10:30
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20 minute read
NuGet NuGet Downloads GitHub Release (CLI)
In Part 1 I showed the raw pipeline: manually downloading models, writing a tokenizer, wiring up ONNX inference, and decoding BIO tags by hand. Educational,...
Thursday, 12 February 2026 12:00
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22 minute read
Hey everyone so I restarted the blog back in November and have been steadily puping out the articles but...it's got to the point where I've stopped enjoying it.
The blog landscape has changed since I...
Saturday, 31 January 2026 05:00
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1 minute read
Deep Research without Deep Pockets.
When "Deep Research" landed in the premium AI tools, I was curious: what is this, actually? So I pulled it apart. And once I understood the architecture, I realised...
Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:00
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23 minute read
