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Zero-Click Search Is Here: How a Small Blog Survives

SparkToro’s latest study put a number on the thing every blogger has been feeling: roughly two-thirds of Google searches now end without a single click to the open web. Rand […]

Running Local AI Models on a Budget Laptop (From Dhaka)

Every AI subscription is priced in dollars, and my electricity bill is priced in taka. That math is exactly why I got curious about running local AI models — open-weight […]

AI Crawlers Are Eating Your Hosting. Block Them Smartly

Your hosting bill has new tenants, and they don’t pay rent. AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, and a swarm of anonymous scrapers — are hammering websites at a scale […]

How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews (Small Blog)

A strange thing happened to my analytics thinking this year: I started caring less about ranking on Google and more about whether ChatGPT knows I exist. If AI assistants now […]

Is Vibe Coding Safe for WordPress? My Honest Verdict

“Vibe coding” had a strange year. The term went from Andrej Karpathy’s playful description of letting AI write your code while you vibe, to a global hobby, to something even […]

WordPress Plugin Backdoors: My 5-Minute Audit Checklist

This year’s scariest WordPress story wasn’t a zero-day. It was a purchase. As TechCrunch reported, an attacker quietly bought an established plugin portfolio — dozens of plugins running on thousands […]

Bangladesh’s Freelance Tax Break: What Actually Changed

For once, some genuinely good news for freelancers in Bangladesh — and it came from the least likely place: the national budget. The 2026-27 budget proposes waiving the source tax […]

AI Browsers Are Coming for Your Website. Is It Ready?

There’s a new kind of visitor on your website, and it doesn’t have eyes. AI browsers — Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and the agentic features Google keeps folding into Chrome […]

Hands-On With WordPress 7.0’s AI Features: Honest Take

WordPress 7.0 landed with the most controversial feature set in years: AI baked straight into core. An AI Client, an Abilities API, and a Connectors hub in Settings that hooks […]

The AI Slop Backlash Is Great News for Small Creators

“Slop” made the word-of-the-year lists, and anyone who’s opened a search result lately knows why. The internet is drowning in machine-made mush — auto-generated listicles, faceless AI videos, articles that […]