Now: Archive

Everything I've tested and formed a verdict on. 12 items across 3 months. Most recent first. Back to /now/.

June 2026

  • isitagentready.com Kept Ran it while writing the agent-ready guide. Good first-pass protocol scanner: robots, sitemap, Link headers, well-known files, Markdown negotiation, MCP, Web Bot Auth. Worth keeping as a quick first check.
  • Multi-signal keyword attribution Kept Shipped a free, open skill that joins Search Console and GA4 in BigQuery to estimate revenue per organic keyword, with a confidence score on every row. The honest answer to "which keyword actually made money" once the query is hidden in (not provided). On GitHub.

April 2026

  • Firecrawl Agent Kept Works really well. Already implemented across a few internal Snippet Digital tools. Read the note.
  • WebMCP Kept Implemented and working on this site at /mcp/. Be honest: getting it set up was painful. Documentation gaps, the widget paste UX is rough, and you fight the host page CSS. Once it works, it works. Still waiting for the W3C Chrome spec to mature so the widget step disappears.
  • Google Stitch Passed Tested it. Then Anthropic shipped Claude design and the gap closed. Using Claude design now for the same workflow. Might still write a comparison guide.
  • BigQuery + GSC + GA4 Kept The piping experiment turned into a content cluster: BigQuery MCP server with 32 tools, 6 GA4 + GSC blending tools, and the multi-signal attribution skill with a confidence score on every row. All free, all open source.
  • Cloudflare Markdown for Agents Kept 44-day Phase 1 experiment shipped. 1,421 markdown requests, growing volume, Claude as the #2 consumer at 500 hits, three brand-new markdown-specific user agents appeared during the test. Phase 2 is citation tracking via Ahrefs Brand Radar, when the budget allows.
  • reverse-SynthID Kept Tested. Useful. Recommended. Reverse engineers Google's SynthID watermark on Gemini-generated images using spectral analysis, no encoder access required. Holds up well enough to be in the toolbox.
  • Bloom Kept Mixed verdict. Bloom is genuinely nicer for local recording and the cost story is unbeatable (free vs Loom subscriptions). For sharing, transcripts, and the polish layer Loom still wins, so I haven't replaced it. Bloom for personal walkthroughs, Loom for client-facing.

March 2026

  • Google Workspace CLI Kept Genuinely impressive. Makes managing Workspace feel like it should have always worked this way. Still using it daily.
  • Scrapling Passed Interesting adaptive scraping library for Python. But Firecrawl and ScrapingBee already cover everything I need. No gap to fill.
  • Khoj Passed Open source AI second brain. Promising concept, but OpenClaw handles the personal knowledge layer better for my workflow.

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