A contact form needs somewhere to send its data. HTML sends the submission to the address in the form's action attribute; the page itself has no mailbox. A thank-you message alone does not establish that an email arrived. GitHub Pages…
Deploys often copy more than intended into the web root. Three files cause most of the damage when they are publicly readable. 1. Test your own domain From a terminal, using your own site: curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n…
I'm a solo dev in Abidjan. On October 13 I launched Upstar, a site that ranks the GitHub repos taking off inside each topic: self-hosted, Rust, local LLMs, Android, agent skills, 69 topics so far. The idea is simple. GitHub Trending is…
Sorting GitHub by stars when you pick an SEO tool selects for the author's marketing skill, not the tool's engineering. Data from the agent-skill directory I run — 765 skills, each scored on a six-dimension rubric — makes that separation unusually clean. Here…
Today a hosting provider forced a password reset across its customer base (111 points). Somewhere in that crowd is a team that did everything right: credentials documented, secrets in a vault, an escrow copy of the source in a second location.
Yesterday, Google Labs announced Correlate, a new tool takes Google Trends and throws it in reverse. With Correlate, researchers instead start with a trend and correlate that data to search terms. PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you…
This post covers the whole lifecycle: what happens after you save a custom domain, how to watch it progress from the command line, why you should fix mixed content before you enforce HTTPS, and what to check when provisioning genuinely…
Google Trends is the go-to free source for "which of these is more popular?". But it has two limits that break any serious keyword research: So if you export 20 batches of 5 keywords and paste them together, a "50" in batch 1 and…
Google Trends is still one of the few free signals for "what are people searching for, relatively". But if you try to use it from code, you quickly run into three problems: This post is a practical guide to all…
The cover chart shows 12 search terms on one Google Trends scale, US, past 12 months. You can't get that chart from Google directly. The compare box stops at 5 terms, and each comparison is rescaled so its own top value is 100. I…
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