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Since 19 June 2026, most EU B2C webshops need a withdrawal button: an online route for the 14-day cooling-off right. WooCommerce doesn't ship one. What to build or check.

VictoriaMetrics is my default for a new monitoring stack: leaner on RAM and disk, simpler to run highly available, and boring in production. Here is the honest reasoning, the independent evidence, and the cases where I still pick Prometheus.

Bots now outnumber humans on the web, and AI crawlers are the fastest-growing slice. The bandwidth and compute land on you, often as billable 'visits'. Blanket-blocking is the wrong reflex: it also kills your AI-search visibility. Here's how to rate-limit selectively instead.

Google's current AI Search guidance is more boring than the hype suggests: fix crawlability, snippets, useful service pages, business details and page experience before chasing GEO hacks.

Nextcloud can replace a real slice of Google Workspace, but not the whole suite. The right question is which jobs you want it to own.

WordPress 7.0 turns AI provider keys into site-level operational credentials. Before enabling a connector, decide who owns the key, who may spend against it and which plugins may use it.

A WordPress maintenance contract is useful when it makes responsibility clear: updates, backups, security, recovery, hosting, response time, and what happens when work falls outside the package.

Kyverno Chainsaw lets you write Kubernetes end-to-end tests as declarative YAML instead of Go boilerplate or brittle bash. What it does, who runs it in production, and where it falls short.

Anthropic is about to open its restricted Mythos cyber model to the public. Here's what it actually does, why the 10,000-vulnerability headline deserves scrutiny, and the one shift that matters for the software you run.

Zarf packages container images, Helm charts, and manifests into a single archive for deployment to fully disconnected Kubernetes clusters. Born from a U.S. Navy submarine problem, its ConfigMap-based registry bootstrap is one of the cleverest tricks in the airgap toolbox.