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Founded a couple of open source projects, most remarkable being flamerobin.org, which is now the default administration GUI for the open-source FirebirdSQL DBMS. I got really close with people in that community (had beers with most core developers ;) and even presented some papers/sessions at three Firebird conferences. I also run the official Firebird FAQ website at firebirdfaq.org.
Wrote some shareware software available at guacosoft.com. Most successful product is a home-inventory application called Attic Manager.
From 2009 got interested into web space, but mostly kept alive by making accounting software.
In 2014, tested waters on Android, built a space shooter game Drone Invaders in just 23days: http://bigosaur.com/blog/23days
In 2018, built and released Rogue Bit, a puzzle game about computer internals. You play as a single bit of RAM who became sentient and decide to escape the computer into the real world:
http://roguebit.bigosaur.com
From 2015 to 2021, built "Son of a Witch", a roguelike brawler best explained as a mix of Castle Crashers and The Binding of Isaac. It's available on Steam and Nintendo Switch:
https://sonofawitchgame.com
Currently working on a puzzle game called Block Buster Billy, which can be best described as Baba Is You meets Math:
https://bigosaur.com/bbb
You can see my progress on my Twitter: @bigosaur.
You can e.mail me at milan_at_bigosaur dot_com.
https://mywebsite/1-post-title
https://mywebsite/2-post-title-second
https://mywebsite/3-post-title-third
https://mywebsite/4-etc
https://mywebsite/1-post-title/2-post-title-second
https://mywebsite/1-post-title/3-post-title-third
Since the blog engine simply discards everything after number (1,2,3...) and just serves the content for blog post #1, #2, #3,... the web server returns a valid page. However, all those pages are the same.
The main problem here is that there is no website page that has such compound links like https://mywebsite/1-post-title/2-post-title-second
So it's clearly some bug in the crawler.
Maybe OpenAI is using AI code for their crawler because it has so dumb bugs you cannot believe any human would write it.
They will make 90000 requests to load my small blog with 300 posts.
Cannot imagine what happens with larger websites that have thousands of blog posts.
I have a business facebook account and got a message from them to verify the business. The only link in the email was going to facebook.com/support, which I typed into the browser and it really showed a message (supposedly) from the Facebook support team. Basically, asking for company info, most of which can be obtained from public resources online. Here's a screenshot:
https://bigosaur.com/fb/request-company-info.png
Interesting thing is that they never mention my company name, but I only have one company registered with them, so I guess that was it. So, I replied to that since the info is public anyway.
This was about 2 weeks ago. Today, I get a new message claiming that I applied for "Facebook fundraising tools". Of course, I never applied to that, my company isn't even a non-profit, which seems to be a requirement. At first I though someone must have typed in my company name wrong, but there's a peculiar thing: Now they did include the company name, and it's IN THE SAME THREAD as the first message.
The request wants a copy of ID card for "Ana Petrovic". I have no idea who that is. It's a very common name, like Jane Smith in US. Here's a screenshot, note the same item_id:
https://bigosaur.com/fb/request-ana-petrovic.png
This looks like a phishing attack, but I'm trying to figure out how it works. How did they manage to initiate the conversation as if Facebook is contacting me? If I send any info back, does the attacker get it?
What if I reply, "I don't know Ana Petrovic, my name is XXX", will they then ask for my ID documents?
If anyone from Facebook is reading this and needs more info, please feel free to contact me via the email in my HN profile.