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By Greg Nowak, 20 June, 2026

Shorter TLS Certificates Make Renewal Monitoring a Server Job

Public TLS lifetimes are moving from 200 days toward 47. Manual renewal is now a reliability risk across ACME, reloads, monitoring, and rollback.

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By Greg Nowak, 16 May, 2026

Let's Encrypt Profiles Put Renewal Assumptions Under the Microscope

Let's Encrypt's May 2026 profile rollout left classic certificates at 90 days, but made ACME profile choice, challenge paths, hooks, and monitoring harder to ignore.

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By Greg Nowak, 15 May, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises the TLS Floor: How to Test Legacy Integrations

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS retires legacy TLS defaults. Learn how to inventory dependencies, test certificates and stage a rollback-ready upgrade.

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By Greg Nowak, 10 April, 2019

Cloudflare SSL for a VPS: A Practical Setup Without the Gotchas

Set up Cloudflare SSL on a VPS with Full (strict), the right origin certificate, clean redirects, and fewer Nginx surprises during client work.

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By Greg Nowak, 11 January, 2019

Enable TLS on a Linux Mail Server Without Breaking Delivery

A practical TLS checklist for Linux mail servers: separate public SMTP from authenticated submission, configure Postfix and Dovecot, renew certs, and align DNS.

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Illustrated infographic summarizing: If the Facts Need JavaScript, AI Search May Miss the Full Page

If the Facts Need JavaScript, AI Search May Miss the Full Page

2026-07-14

A practical guide to finding and fixing JavaScript rendering gaps that can hide services, prices, contact details and metadata from AI search crawlers.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Search Console Can See Social Posts—Your Reports Need a New Map

Search Console Can See Social Posts—Your Reports Need a New Map

2026-07-13

Search Console now reports how social posts perform across Google. Here’s a practical way to manage properties, permissions, baselines and exports.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: WordPress 7.0 Has an AI Client. Plugins Need Their Own Guardrails

WordPress 7.0 Has an AI Client. Plugins Need Their Own Guardrails

2026-07-12

WordPress 7.0 standardizes how plugins call AI providers, while leaving developers responsible for access control, cost limits, capability checks and graceful failures.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Google’s AI Search toggle needs a test plan, not a gut decision

Google’s AI Search toggle needs a test plan, not a gut decision

2026-07-11

Google’s AI Search control creates a measurable publishing choice. Test visibility, traffic and leads before changing the setting across your site.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: OpenAI Is Retiring Agent Builder: Save the Workflow, Not Just Prompts

OpenAI Is Retiring Agent Builder: Save the Workflow, Not Just Prompts

2026-07-10

OpenAI retires Agent Builder on November 30, 2026. Here is what teams need to preserve, how to choose a migration path, and how to cut over safely.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: AI agents need a browser policy before they start clicking around

AI agents need a browser policy before they start clicking around

2026-07-09

Browser-using AI agents can save time, but they need clear rules before they enter CRMs, CMSs, portals, or admin tools and start taking action.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: When AI writes JSON, one bad field can break the workflow

When AI writes JSON, one bad field can break the workflow

2026-07-08

Structured AI output is useful in real workflows, but teams need schemas, validation, retries, and logs before JSON reaches production systems.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: AI search is eating the click: measure the queries before rewriting pages

AI search is eating the click: measure the queries before rewriting pages

2026-07-07

AI summaries are cutting into search clicks. Start with a practical dashboard that shows query risk, bot purpose, page value, and crawler policy.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: AI shopping visibility now depends on boring product-data plumbing

AI shopping visibility now depends on boring product-data plumbing

2026-07-07

AI-assisted shopping puts more pressure on ecommerce catalog data, feeds, schema, prices, availability, and return-policy governance.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Drupal AI Demos Need a Permissions Rehearsal Before Launch

Drupal AI Demos Need a Permissions Rehearsal Before Launch

2026-07-07

Drupal’s July 2026 AI advisories show why agencies should test permissions, uploads, approval loops, logs, and rollback before client demos go live.