The best e-readers in 2026, from the $109 basic Kindle to the $629 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. Eight picks tested, with the catch you should know about each one.
7 best 4K YouTube downloaders tested for PC and Mac. Real prices, honest limits, and the one I keep on every machine. Lifetime picks under $40.
Use my Stop Slop skill to catch AI slop in prose, UI copy, and code before shipping, with nine tells, examples, install steps, and a checklist.
WordPress 7.0 brings native AI to core via the Abilities API, AI Client library, and the official AI Plugin. A hands-on tour from RC2 in production with all five connectors compared.
After eight months on a dozen WordPress sites, here’s why I bought the Independent Analytics Agency lifetime license and stopped opening Google Analytics 4.
Most PDF work — viewing, compressing, editing, unzipping — now runs in a browser tab. Here’s the workflow, the tools, and where desktop software still wins.
Emailit is the best email delivery service for WordPress right now. $20 for 100,000 emails, credits never expire, works with Fluent SMTP in 4 minutes. I’ve run it on my own sites and client projects. Compared with Postmark, Resend, SendGrid, Amazon SES, Brevo, Mailgun, and Mailtrap.
A long X history becomes a problem the moment your account starts doing real business. An honest breakdown of bulk-cleanup workflows, the X API’s 3,200-post ceiling, and why ongoing hygiene beats panic wipes.
Press releases still carry prestige, but the math has changed. An honest breakdown of when they work, when they don’t, and where the same $1,500 gets a bigger return in 2026.
7 cheapest dedicated hosting providers: Hostinger VPS (actually VPS), OVH, Hetzner, Kamatera, Contabo, IONOS, Server.pro. Real specs under $60/month.
10 free personal blog sites: WordPress.com, Bear Blog, Mataroa, Substack, Ghost Pro trial, Medium, Blogger, HashNode, Dev.to, Write.as. Which to pick by goal.
The five hardened base images I’d actually trust in a Kubernetes cluster, ranked by how they fit real platform teams.