Not so fast...

It seems I spoke too soon when I said I had the DNS amplification problem solved. Last Thursday I got another nastygram email that told me the attacks were still occurring. I had to log back into my router and turn off a setting in the DNS controls that allowed outside requests - I thought I had done this previously, but the change must not have taken effect. But this time I noticed a sharp drop-off in traffic as soon as I applied the change, so I think I got the issue resolved now. I just checked my traffic graph and it looks good, so hopefully that will be the end of it. I guess I was being a bad netizen without knowing it, which gives me the sads. I didn't get much out of the last Python meetup I went to last Tuesday. This time they talked about HTMX, which I don't have any experience using and don't really know anything about, other than it's easier to use than React. I'm all for that, because I've used React on a couple of side projects I've made in the last year or so, and it was a pain in the ass to work with. I'm not really a front-end developer guy, so working with any kind of JavaScript framework is a struggle to understand. But this coming Tuesday the meetup is supposed to be about Jinja2, which is also a new one for me. It's used with Flask to develop websites. I haven't built anything with Flask yet so we'll see how this meetup goes. Hopefully I'll get something useful out of it. The last few meetups I've gone to I haven't participated in the discussion at all, which I'd like to change, but the subjects discussed aren't anything I have experience with so far so it feels a bit awkward. I might try introducing myself to a couple of the guys who run the presentations this coming Tuesday, we'll see. This past Thursday I went over to a friend's house after work and helped him work on a project he's doing. We made a Home Depot run to get some lumber, brought it back to his place and cut and planed a bunch of boards for a workbench. I had a good time doing it, but my eyes were watering for 2 days afterward from all the sawdust. I might be going over there again next week to work on it some more. Not a lot else going on right now. I have my toolbox project sitting at home waiting for me to finish sanding. I might work on that a little bit today. Hopefully I can get it prepped and ready for paint this coming weekend. I should have some free time available, but we'll see how it goes.