28. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. Or So They Say.
I turned 28 on 31 October 2026. On growing up, the responsibilities nobody hands you a manual for, and why Spider-Man keeps coming up in my head.
Why Your PageSpeed Score Moved Without a Single Page Edit
Lighthouse 13.6.0 shipped on 27 October 2026 and changed the loading simulation behind the PageSpeed Insights lab score. A report from before the update and one from after it are measuring different things, and JavaScript-heavy pages move the most.
One Piece Chapter 1198 Makes Luffy the Scariest Thing on Elbaf
Chapter 1198 of One Piece ends with Luffy in a form nobody names, Imu running out of time and Loki beaten in one blow. The leaks held, 2 details did not, and 1199 has 5 questions waiting.
What a BSE SME Listing Changed About How My Team Sells SEO
EMIAC Technologies listed on BSE SME on 13 April 2026. What changed afterwards was the question the business asks about marketing, because a public company answers to shareholders and rankings are not something a shareholder can check.
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Back a Shared robots.txt Opt-Out for AI Training
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI said on 30 October 2026 that they will read a shared robots.txt token for AI training preferences. The token adds no new syntax, a wildcard group does not express it, and none of the three supports it yet.
Crawled but Not Indexed: 4 Checks in the Right Order
Google crawled the page, read it and left it out of the index, so pressing Request Indexing again changes nothing. Four checks, run in order, separate a thin page from a duplicate, an orphan from a site-wide problem.
4 Checks Before You Install a WordPress Plugin
The WordPress plugin directory publishes four fields that decide most installs, and the same numbers come back from a public API. Measured on 3 plugins that run on live sites, including the security, cache and SEO plugins on my own install.
Brave Sells 30 Billion Pages to AI Companies, and Its Crawler Has No Name
The New York Times sued Brave on 2 November 2026 over an index of more than 30 billion pages it says was copied and sold on to AI companies. Brave’s crawler carries no separate name, so robots.txt cannot keep it out without keeping Google out too.
Netflix Orders a 1950s Stranger Things Prequel for 2028
Netflix ordered Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure on 6 November 2026, a live-action prequel set in Marion, Nevada in 1955 and due in 2028. Kate Trefry runs the show and Joe Wright directs the first three episodes, with the Duffer Brothers staying as co-creators. It is the franchise’s fourth property and its third series.