Posts tagged “Web & Platforms”

PHP shipped fixes for two remote code execution bugs on October 21, 2026. We patched 66 hosted sites that day. Twelve more needed nothing, because we had rebuilt them as static HTML in August, and the server logs show what that rebuild changed.

Since October 12, 2026, Google Tag Manager can send data to Google Analytics, Google Ads, Floodlight and Merchant Center without loading a separate gtag.js file. The upgrade is optional, and it moves every privacy setting into one versioned place.

A crawler identifying itself as OpenAI’s GPTBot spent four days downloading lyric videos from our music project and left a $749.06 CloudFront bill. How it got in, how we closed the door, and what AWS’s support bot said when we asked for mercy.

Part 2 of 2. If your CMS isn't the predictor, what is? Six operational practices we run across 79 WordPress sites, custom Go applications, and hosted builders. Pick any platform. The operating layer is what wins.

Picking the 'right' CMS won't save a small business in 2026. We run 79 WordPress sites, 47 client reporting workspaces, custom Go applications, and hosted-builder sites in parallel. Seven myths about platform choice, and what the 2026 data actually shows.

Marketing stacks suffer the same dependency rot as code: GTM containers full of dead tags, unpatched plugins, and third-party scripts doubling page weight.