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Fri, 20 Mar 2009

12:39 – Now using reCAPTCHA

Because I have a million other things I should be doing instead, I wasted a couple of hours this morning adding reCAPTCHA to my blog. While my geeky questions were fun and fairly effective, I had trouble with spammers learning the answers to the "easy" questions and geeks not knowing the answers to the "difficult" ones.

This exercise again confirmed in my mind that Python is a dreadful language. Besides the fact that it's not C, the ridiculous indenting rules and the way that it tries to implement every single programming paradigm ever invented make it practically impossible to quickly hack something in.

I was also reminded that the "web" sucks. In the twenty minutes my blog was completely unprotected, nearly a hundred garbage-posts got in. Bah.

[ category: /meta | 3 comments on this entry ]

darn, i had grown fond of the old system :)
you do realize that you expose your blog to comments from (gasp) anyone who can read ?

Posted by elise at Fri Mar 20 16:04:55 2009
Elise: yes.  I reserve the right to delete comments from people who are obviously too stupid to be writing them though.  So far, I've not yet had to wield that hammer, but it's available to me should I need it.

Posted by Philip Paeps at Fri Mar 20 16:23:57 2009
Have you tried using Akismet? I think it's let about 10 spam comments through in over a year on my blog, whilst blocking thousands. I don't think there is a direct plugin for pyblosxom, but there is a Python library or a module available.

Maybe my vision is messed up, but I can rarely get reCATCHAs right on the first go. :/

Posted by Paul at Sat Mar 21 21:28:29 2009

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