One of the biggest headaches that those of us who design and maintain websites have are spammers. Those nefarious people who try to invade your website and use your servers to send out their junk to the masses. Since I maintain my own virtual private server (VPS), one of the biggest problems was spending the time to go in and delete the bogus accounts that were created or checking the logs to see if someone had found a way to insert malicious code into the site.

I say 'was' because a couple of years ago I found a company called CleanTalk. After installing their service, my spam attacks dropped 99%. Seriously. The most I ever see anymore is a little comment spam or people trying to access a page that doesn't exist. I have been really amazed at how well their software works and how much time it has saved me.

Being into all things computer, I read an interesting article about the WWW code being up for auction. Tim Bernes-Lee, a London-born computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. This ended up revolutionizing the sharing and creation of information - one of the most significant inventions since Gutenberg invented the printing press back in the 15th century.

Sotheby's is auctioning off the digitally signed Ethereum blockchain non-fungible token (NFT), a one-of-a-kind digital asset which records ownership, includes the original source code, an animated visualization, a letter written by Berners-Lee and a digital poster of the full code from the original files.

NTFs have really become popular in recent months, including at auction. For instance, a digital-only artwork by American artist Mike Windelmann sold for nearly $70 million at Christie's in March.

Most websites have the objective to keep you coming back, but unfortunately many use deceptive tricks to get you to do it - something we refuse to do.