what1tune – Musical Addresses / / No Comments Over the years, we’ve seen countless ways to navigate our world using various geohashing solutions. These systems – such as the popular what3words (which assigns three random words to every 3-meter square), or Google’s Plus Codes – aim to provide a simplified, human-readable way to identify precise locations where traditional street addresses fall short, such as in Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Addresses, Musical, what1tune
How to Block a Range of IP Addresses / / No Comments As much as content creators want traffic to their website, there is such thing as the wrong type of traffic. Sometimes it’s content scrapers, sometimes it’s malicious bots; either way, it’s important to know how to block problematic IPs from your site. To block a range of IP addresses using an .htaccess file, you can use the * wildcard for pieces of the IP address: Order Allow,Deny Deny from 219.198.*.* Allow from all You can also use a regular expression: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^219\.198\.\. RewriteRule ^ - [F] Don’t let known attackers and problematic bots bring your website to a halt! Be quick to check your site logs and ban addresses that... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Addresses, Block, range