Rolling out updates, blocking bot traffic and more – notes from 16th September 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 16th September, ten freelancers got together in the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things self employment, tech, and singers who have got themselves in a bit of bother. This is some of what we covered:
- Rolling out an update to a big, complex site
- Why are auth libraries not better?
- Software to deal with HMRC
- Open Banking APIs
- GnuCash
- Blocking bot traffic using Imperva and Cloudflare and custom code
- New AI blocking and allowing tools in Cloudflare
- Setting up payments for physical items
- AI Chatbots and censorship
- Being at Tiananmen Square for the anniversary
- Dealing with bad sleep
- “Are you getting paid by the Swedish House mafia?”
- Ed Sheeran
- Sociopath is just the medical term for psychopath
- Recommendations: the film Weapons, the series Handmaid’s Tale
- Finding videos of unusual travel
- Ceefax on YouTube
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a lovely evening.