The same four-part shape keeps appearing across StyloBot: establish a base, retain the useful delta, measure drift, and consolidate when the evidence warrants it. Compression is not a component; it is...
Thursday, 10 September 2026 12:00
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14 minute read
Bot detection should not stop at allow/block. This post shows how StyloBot's classification result becomes application logic in ASP.NET: tag helpers in Razor, action filters and policies in...
Monday, 01 June 2026 10:30
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22 minute read
Bot detection should not stop at allow/block. This post shows how StyloBot's classification result becomes application logic in TypeScript: server middleware for Express and Fastify, template helpers...
Monday, 01 June 2026 10:30
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19 minute read
Identity-based bot detection (IPs, user-agents, headers) collapses the moment automation starts rotating identities. StyloBot models clients as behavioural shapes in a 130+ dimensional vector space....
Monday, 01 June 2026 10:30
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23 minute read
How do you test a detector whose answer is supposed to change as it learns? This post is about BDF, the Behavioural Definition Format that makes StyloBot testable: one file defines a class of traffic,...
Monday, 01 June 2026 10:30
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23 minute read
Long-running services tend to slowly drift toward unbounded memory. Here's how I find that drift, how I think about fixing it without papering over it, and a worked example from StyloBot's vector...
Monday, 01 June 2026 10:30
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21 minute read
Heads up: this one is for the nerds. It's a deep technical dive into StyloBot's adaptive learning system (EWMA updates, hysteresis thresholds, verdict caching, variance watchdogs), with real code from...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 11:00
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22 minute read
Most software still assumes the world will hand it clean inputs and stable rules.
Production usually does neither.
This post is the through-line behind a bunch of things I've been building: DiSE,...
Friday, 13 March 2026 10:30
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15 minute read
Enterprise bot detection shouldn't require a PhD in infrastructure (or thousands a month in expenditure to use!). Two lines of code, zero external services, and you're running (up to) 21 detectors in...
Monday, 16 February 2026 10:30
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20 minute read
Part 1 was the why. This is the show-and-tell tour of what StyloBot does that is rare in production bot stacks.
Thesis: StyloBot models bot detection as a progressive, early-exit topology of...
Sunday, 15 February 2026 10:30
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20 minute read