By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-02.
“Allow AI” and “block AI” sound decisive, but they no longer describe the choice a publisher is making. The same public article might belong in conventional search, be acceptable as a source for a grounded answer, and remain off-limits for model training. An advertising landing page may need to be available for review without opening the door to unrelated reuse.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-01.
A WordPress site can load perfectly well on a server stack that no longer belongs in production. WordPress 7.0 still supports PHP 7.4, even though WordPress recommends PHP 8.3 or newer and warns that legacy releases have reached end of life.
The distinction is easy to miss. WordPress’s minimum requirement tells you whether core can run. It says nothing about whether that PHP branch still receives security fixes, or whether the rest of the site is ready for a maintained version.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-31.
It often starts with a small, sensible request. Reconcile two exports. Build a dashboard. Enrich a customer list. Automate the report that consumes Friday afternoon. Someone uses an AI coding assistant, gets a working result, and shares it with the team.
Then the tool sticks. Colleagues begin to depend on it, perhaps without knowing who built it or how it works. What began as a quick experiment is now part of the operating machinery, but nobody has formally accepted responsibility for it.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-30.
An AI integration can run perfectly well in production right up to the day its model endpoint disappears. The surrounding software may be healthy, but once the provider retires that model, the workflow can still stop.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-29.
GitHub has filled a useful gap in Copilot reporting. Its usage metrics API can now show, by repository and day, pull requests created or merged by Copilot cloud agent and pull requests reviewed by Copilot code review. It also reports review suggestions by comment type and whether teams applied them.
That gives engineering leaders a much clearer view than an organization-wide adoption number. You can see where AI-assisted work is entering the delivery process and which Copilot features teams actually use.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-28.
Most AI integrations start with the same pattern: send a request, wait for the answer, continue. That is appropriate when a customer is chatting with an assistant, an employee is drafting a live reply, or another system is blocked.
It is harder to justify when 40,000 product classifications simply need to be ready by tomorrow morning.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-27.
Putting a site behind a CDN does not automatically reduce the load on its origin. Cloudflare has to store a response and reuse it before any of that work disappears. One misplaced header can quietly prevent both.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-26.
Long-lived TLS certificates can make a fragile renewal process look dependable. A calendar reminder prompts someone to act. A DNS record gets changed by hand. The new certificate reaches the server, but nobody reloads the service. Because this happens only occasionally, the team usually has time to recover.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-25.
An AI agent submits an order. The receiving API accepts it, but the response is lost during a network timeout. From the agent's point of view, the call failed, so it tries again. If the integration cannot recognise both requests as the same piece of work, the customer may end up with two orders.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-24.
An AI visibility dashboard can look reassuringly precise while measuring something quite unstable. A rising line might mean your source coverage has improved. It might also mean the model changed, the interface changed, one test produced a favourable answer, or somebody edited the prompt set between reports.
If the methodology cannot tell those situations apart, the dashboard is not ready to guide budgets or priorities.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-23.
AI workspaces are becoming much easier to administer through code. OpenAI now supports workspace-scoped Admin keys for supported ChatGPT and Codex administration APIs, covering group management, spend controls, cost reporting and analytics. Anthropic’s beta Admin API can manage Claude Enterprise members, invitations and groups, as well as expose custom-role information.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-22.
OpenAI Presence comes with a straightforward proposition: help enterprises move voice and chat agents out of the demo environment and into production. For most businesses, though, the immediate question is not whether an agent can do useful work. It is whether a particular workflow is ready to give one access, authority, and responsibility.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-21.
To the customer, a chatbot conversation happens in one place. Behind the interface, the same text may pass through an application database, a model provider, an observability platform, analytics, security logs and a support system. Each stop can create another copy, with different access controls, retention periods and deletion behaviour.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-20.
Cloudflare Service Key authentication stops working on September 30, 2026. From that date, requests using the X-Auth-User-Service-Key header will no longer authenticate. Integrations need to use API tokens with the permissions required for their work.
The credential change itself is usually the easy part. The harder question is whether you have found every caller.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-19.
An AI workflow can look flawless in a demonstration and still be nowhere near ready for customer contact. Demos tend to be cooperative: the input is clean, the tools are available, the request is familiar, and someone is standing by to intervene. Production is less obliging. Customers are ambiguous. Records have gaps. APIs fail. Permissions vary. A plausible answer may hide the fact that the wrong action was taken.
Every village has rules nobody remembers the reason for. Underbeck has
three: pay the goatherd, hold the Tallowing on time, and keep the door
poor.
Vegan Power began as a simple Android game in 2020 with a very plain joke at its heart: eat fruit, not friends.
It is now playable at veganpower.grn.dk in any modern browser. There is no app store, no sign-up and no setup. Open the page, move the little yellow hero, and start catching fruit.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-19.
KotobaMon (コトバモン, “Word Monster Safari”) is a small 3D game that runs entirely in a web browser. You walk a low-poly island, meet wild monsters and catch them — and because every monster is a Japanese word, catching them is how you pick up vocabulary. It is live at fantasy.grn.dk, needs no download, and was built as a self-contained side project.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-18.
WordPress 7.0.2 was published on July 17, 2026 to fix one critical and one high-severity security issue. WordPress recommended installing it immediately and, given the severity, switched on forced updates through its automatic-update system for affected sites.
That should protect a large part of the WordPress estate quickly. It does not prove that every site you are responsible for has been patched.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-17.
Most IndexNow projects start in the obvious place: notify search systems when a page goes live. The trouble usually comes later. A price changes. An office moves. An offer expires. A product is withdrawn. Guidance is corrected. If the integration only listens for the original publish event, none of those changes may reach the notification queue.
