List page: Software

Assorted computer programs, in various states of completeness and buggyness. No warranty.

Trap bots on your server:

Here’s the code for my infinite nonsense crawler trap:

• process.py: Text preprocessor
• babble.c: Garbage server

What follows is an explanation of how to set it up…

Using an MDX-540 CNC mill from Linux

Roland’s CNC machines can’t naively run G-code. Instead, they include a printer driver that converts G-code into a binary format before it gets sent to the machine.