I read a lot of AI research. Most of it is interesting to the people writing it and nobody else. But every once in a while, something comes along that has real implications for the rest of us. Google Research just published a paper on a set of compression algorithms
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Every industry has its own language. That’s fine. Specialized work needs specialized words sometimes. But there’s a difference between using shorthand because it’s efficient and using it because it’s become a habit nobody questions anymore. A habit that ends up putting distance between people who should
Today I found my first website on a Zip disk. Well, probably. I can't actually open it. We're in the middle of a move right now. Boxes everywhere. That phase where you're pulling things out of closets and drawers that haven't been
WordPress 6.9.4 dropped this morning. If that version number doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry. You also missed 6.9.2 and 6.9.3. They all came out in the same 24-hour window. A security patch broke things. So they patched the patch. Then
I never wanted to be a leader. That was never the plan. I wanted to sit in the corner and build stuff. Write code. Solve problems. Put my headphones on and disappear into the work. That's what made me happy. That's what got me into this
5 months ago, someone posted a leaked creator brief on Reddit that confirmed what a lot of us in the SEO industry already suspected. https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1nm6daz/fyi_geos_ugly_campaign_of_intentional/ A company called Search Party, a GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) startup that