Tag: tech

All the articles with the tag "tech".

• SEO is not enough: AI agentic search optimization is the future

  12 Jul, 2026

  Search is moving from ranked links to synthesized answers. Marketers and developers now need to make websites accessible, understandable, and worth citing by Claude, Grok, GPT, and Gemini.

• The Rise and Fall of the $5 Droplet

  10 Jul, 2026

  DigitalOcean was every freelancer's first cloud. In 2026 it's an AI company whose headline metrics no longer count small customers. What changed, the real numbers — and where the $5-droplet crowd actually went.

• The GoDaddy tax: what a domain should really cost — and where to actually buy it

  8 Jul, 2026

  A .com is a commodity — the same name, the same DNS, everywhere. So why does GoDaddy renew it at ~$22 when at-cost registrars charge ~$10? A look at the domain-registrar pricing spread, the teaser-and-renewal trap, and how to stop overpaying.

• How I added a whole language to a 200-page site with an AI agent — the prompts and the code

  6 Jul, 2026

  Adding English to a website used to be a five-role, multi-month project. I did it to a 200-page site in one afternoon with an AI agent. Here are the actual prompts, the code patterns, and the one thing the machine still can't do.

• Deploy a website in minutes, for £0 — the GitHub + Cloudflare recipe

  3 Jul, 2026

  Star a repo, connect it to a free Cloudflare account, set one build command, and every git push ships your site to a global CDN — HTTPS and all — for nothing. The exact 5-step recipe, with my side project NamLoop as the guinea pig (works for any site).

• WordPress isn't dying — it's decaying. And developers and small businesses feel it first.

  30 Jun, 2026

  It still runs ~42% of the web, so 'dying' is clickbait. But its share is falling faster every month, 96% of its security holes live in its plugins, and its own governance is in court. The honest state of WordPress in 2026 — through the site I just tore out and rebuilt: my wife's.

• NamLoop, Part II: git push, and it's live — how embarrassingly easy deploying became

  27 Jun, 2026

  The weekend YouTube looper needed a home on the internet. It got one — global CDN, HTTPS, custom domain, CI/CD on every push — for $0, in less time than choosing its name. What deploying a backend-less web project looks like in 2026.

• Rebuilding my wife's website, Part IV: the site was live — then she sent me a WhatsApp message

  24 Jun, 2026

  Three things shipping taught us that QA couldn't: a link preview that undersold her in every group chat, a layout bug at the viewport nobody tests, and finally cornering the phantom Lighthouse LCP. All fixed on the live krystle.hk.