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The Levenshtein distance is a text similarity measure that compares two words and returns a numeric value representing the distance between them. The distance reflects the total number of single-character edits required to transform one word into another. The more similar the two words are the less distance between them, and vice versa. One common use for this distance is in the autocompletion or autocorrection features of text processors or chat applications.

Dark mode has gone from an oddity to being fully supported on Safari, Firefox and Chrome. While this is great news (especially if you also get migraines), it also means that my hacked together dark mode post from less than a year ago is outdated. Time for round two.

Recently, I noticed logs for one of my web services had strange entries that looked like a bot trying to perform scripted attacks on an application endpoint. I was surprised, because all the endpoints that were exposed over the public Internet were protected by some form of authentication, or were locked down to specific IP addresses—or so I thought.