9+ min ago (467+ words) As AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot continue to reshape how users find information, brands must adapt to a world where visibility depends on being included in AI-generated answers, not just traditional search results. AI engines give single, definitive responses " meaning only a handful of brands appear at the top of every query. To stay competitive, businesses rely on AI ranking analyzer tools. These platforms evaluate how often your brand appears inside answers generated by leading AI models, identify the phrases associated with your business, and highlight gaps where competitors perform better. Below are three powerful AI ranking analyzer tools " starting with the most complete solution on the market. AI Rank Checker stands out as the most comprehensive tool for analyzing, measuring, and optimizing your visibility inside AI search engines. While most tools focus on either tracking or…...

15+ min ago (331+ words) Welcome to the new old internet. The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US " GeoCities Japan managed to hang on until 2019). GeoCities was a free web hosting service that launched in 1994 and once hosted millions of personal HTML websites, from pop culture shrines to teachers" pages for their students (and truly everything in between). Neocities is the heart of the indie web, but Nekoweb has also picked up a following over the past year since it launched in 2024. The two hosting platforms form the main hub of the movement. The indie web is about reclaiming space on the internet for human-created content. It"s not about creating the best website, the most optimized one, or the most popular one. It"s about creating whatever you want…...

54+ min ago (241+ words) QR codes are everywhere " restaurant menus, payment apps, event tickets, WiFi sharing. Yet, most QR tools online are either: I needed a single-purpose micro-tool that does ONE thing elegantly: Generate and scan QR codes instantly with a clean, modern interface. QR-Genie is a lightweight, beautiful web app that solves this tiny but annoying problem: " Generate QR codes from any text or URL instantly " Scan QR codes using your device camera " Download as PNG with one click " Copy to clipboard for quick sharing " No ads, no clutter " just pure functionality Kiro is an AI-powered development assistant that dramatically sped up my workflow. Here's how: Kiro helped me define clear requirements and design specs upfront in the /.kiro directory: I described what I wanted, and Kiro generated the complete React components: "Create a QR code generator component with textarea input, generate button,…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1497+ words) Your traffic dropped 40% overnight. You checked Google Search Console. Then checked again. Refreshed the analytics dashboard three times because surely the data was wrong. It wasn't. Welcome to December 2025, where Google's latest Helpful Content Update decided your perfectly good content wasn't so helpful after all. The thing is, this update isn't like the others. And the recovery tactics that worked in 2023? Yeah, most of those are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. I've spent the past three weeks analyzing over 200 sites that got hit'some recovered, most didn't. Here's what actually changed and what's working for recovery. Let's cut through the noise. Every SEO guru on LinkedIn is posting the same recycled advice about "creating quality content" and "focusing on user intent." (Translation: we have no idea either, but this sounds authoritative.) But here's what the data…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago (409+ words) As businesses and researchers rely ever more on web data, large-scale scraping has become a mission-critical activity in 2026. The success of such projects hinges on choosing the right proxy provider'one with global coverage, high reliability, powerful anti-bot capabilities, and strong compliance. In this article, we compare industry leaders: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Smartproxy, and NetNut. At scale, web scraping quickly hits obstacles like geo-restrictions, IP bans, and CAPTCHAs. Robust proxies allow you to rotate identities, reach any region, and bypass sophisticated anti-bot systems, all while protecting your infrastructure from blocks and blacklisting. Pro: Industry-leading tools and reliability for high-volume, complex scraping. Con: Some tools may feel advanced for beginners. Oxylabs provides AI-powered scalability with a comprehensive suite of proxy and scraping tools. Their robust selection of residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies is matched by advanced API options and automation tools, making…...

2+ hour, 28+ min ago (177+ words) In this video you will see how you can use the Google Workspace Events API so that your app can process or respond in real time to changes in Google Chat. 0:00 Intro 0:32 What are Google Chat events? 0:59 How your app can use Google Chat events 2:38 How to set up subscriptions 3:43 How the payload for an event looks like Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@googleworkspacedevs/ Subscribe to our Google Workspace Developer Newsletter: https://developers.google.com/workspace/newsletters #googleworkspaceplatform #googlechat #chatapp Follow youtube.com/@googleworkspacedevs In this video you will see how you can use the Google Workspace Events API so that your app can process or respond in real time to changes in Google Chat. 0:00 Intro 0:32 What are Google Chat events? 0:59 How your app can use Google Chat events 2:38 How to set up subscriptions 3:43 How the payload for an event looks like Need help with…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago (478+ words) For a lot of victims, the story starts like this: Result is always the same: This post is a patch for that mindset. We're not law enforcement. We don't have badges or warrants. What we do have is: And surprise: a lot of the time, identifying the "mouse" behind the screen is easier than getting a special agent to pick up your ticket. Reality for a big chunk of crypto scam operations: When you start collecting and structuring evidence, they stop looking like hackers and start looking like what they are: People running stolen code on discount infrastructure, assuming nobody will ever audit them. The DestroyScammers ecosystem is boring by design. No magic, no "zero-days", no access to internal systems. Just systematic use of data that is already public. Scammers are lazy. Common patterns: Passive DNS + WHOIS history lets us:…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago (192+ words) The use of emojis in text messages is regularly derided as something millennials rely on too much. But they're still wildly popular " at least, according to Emojipedia's real-time tracker. In April, iOS users finally got their hands on the new emoji icons introduced in the Unicode 16 update; we can expect to see the list of Unicode 17 in 2026. However, if you're on Android, specifically using Google's NotoColor Emoji, you can try the new emoji right now " including the highly anticipated Distorted Face emoji. Emojipedia offered more insight into the emoticons winning our little red hearts earlier this year, via their World Emoji Day stats. Voting on the Unicode 17.0 release revealed that Distorted Face was the most anticipated emoji, followed closely by Fight Cloud and Apple Core. The remaining 17.0 emojis you can expect on iPhone in 2026 include Ballet Dancers, Hairy Creature, Orca,…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago (208+ words) The use of emojis in text messages is regularly derided as something millennials rely on too much. But they're still wildly popular " at least, according to Emojipedia's real-time tracker. In April, iOS users finally got their hands on the new emoji icons introduced in the Unicode 16 update; we can expect to see the list of Unicode 17 in 2026. However, if you're on Android, specifically using Google's NotoColor Emoji, you can try the new emoji right now " including the highly anticipated Distorted Face emoji. Emojipedia offered more insight into the emoticons winning our little red hearts earlier this year, via their World Emoji Day stats. Voting on the Unicode 17.0 release revealed that Distorted Face was the most anticipated emoji, followed closely by Fight Cloud and Apple Core. The remaining 17.0 emojis you can expect on iPhone in 2026 include Ballet Dancers, Hairy Creature, Orca,…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago (188+ words) If you've ever tried scraping modern websites, you know the pain. SPAs that never fully load, lazy images hiding content, bot protections blocking your every request" I was losing hours, sometimes days, just trying to get usable data. One late night, fueled by coffee and frustration, I thought: There has to be a better way. That's how FlyScrape was born " a TypeScript Node.js package that makes scraping fast, reliable, and developer-friendly. Sound familiar? I knew there had to be a smarter approach. FlyScrape is modular, typed, and production-ready. It combines Playwright, stealth techniques, and AI-powered content cleaning to deliver structured, LLM-ready Markdown from any web page. I can now scrape dynamic content, handle infinite scrolls, and avoid bot detection " all with minimal code and zero frustration. Why I Built It This Way How It Changed My Workflow Before FlyScrape,…...