Notes
24 notesQuick thoughts on tools, releases, gadgets, and workflows. Not blog posts. Just things I've tried, tested, or found interesting.
- I redesigned this site in a day. The fonts took two.
- Google is encrypting its search result URLs. I'm still recovering all of them in one pass.
- Reddit fell out of ChatGPT's citations, not out of the model
- Yelp is licensing its reviews to ChatGPT. The local data I read in July was all Google.
- Google just put your social accounts in Search Console. It's a scoreboard play, not a gift.
- Cloudflare just changed the AI crawler defaults, and there's a trap in it
- Your firewall can block AI crawlers while your robots.txt waves them in
- Lily Ray put me on a slide
- Google shipped an open format (OKF) for AI agents. My site already spoke it.
- AI search data is in Search Console now. The clicks are missing, but they're coming.
- I installed EntityMap on this site.
- Preferred Sources just arrived in AI Mode. I added the button the same day.
- Google's new AI optimization guide. Mostly right.
- Manus is renting cloud computers to its own AI agent. Looks a lot like a paid OpenClaw.
- I assumed an npm package name was mine. It wasn't.
- Should I turn my blog posts into podcasts? Here is a sample, you tell me.
- Google just dropped Gemma 4. You can run it on your phone.
- SEO is finally dead
- Google just added a crawler that ignores robots.txt
- The Next Wave of Search Is Crawling Markdown
- I asked an AI agent to subscribe to my newsletter. It did.
- Google Stitch is the missing piece between idea and code
- Google AI Studio's vibe coding just got serious
- Starlink just launched in the UAE. I ordered one immediately.