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I am Demetris Kikizas and this is my online notebook for recipes and how-tos. The recipes are for web development and related topics — not food! Have a good time!
Recent posts
I released nobot, a detection system for low-effort bots
15 February 2026
How to block Googlebot impersonators
8 November 2025
Apache snippets to block fake Googlebots
SEO and SEM badness
4 November 2025
SEMrush
Recent updates
oxipng and friends: A comparison of PNG optimization tools
Updated 4 October 2025
A comparison of PNG compression with optipng, oxipng, and FileOptimizer; also includes results of lossless conversion from PNG to WebP
PHP versions in Linux distributions
Updated 7 September 2025
Debian manpages
Updated 10 June 2024