Dispatches
Notes on process, design decisions and the numbers we measure — plus fresh web news from community members.
Google and the OpenAI Responses API found only about a quarter of the pages ChatGPT cited. Measuring visibility in AI answers means distinguishing between matching websites and matching URLs.
tsc-ts is an experimental port of the TypeScript 7.0.2 compiler to TypeScript. You can install it via npm and try it on your own project; comparisons with tsgo do not guarantee identical results on every codebase.
From October 30, Meta’s crawling rights will extend beyond advertisers to other businesses using its products. The terms also allow Meta to use collected content to develop and train its products.
AI respondents and people both named UX as the most common term for this kind of work. But people offered more than 50 alternatives, while synthetic participants gave about a dozen.
US shoppers can add products from different stores to Universal Cart through Google Search and Gemini. They can check out within Google or take their selected items to a retailer’s website.
Proa debuted on Hacker News as a Rust web framework for server-side rendering and components that output HTML and Markdown. Its creators suggest trying it on one route of an existing app.
Google Ads is introducing channel priorities and budget-share limits. Advertisers will be able to test additional inventory without turning it off entirely.
In Go 1.27, net/http.Transport will asynchronously drain unread HTTP/1 response bodies, up to 256 KB or 50 ms. This should help reuse connections more often without extra code.
ChatGPT links appear to have stopped passing UTM tags after the GPT-6 release. Some visits may now be counted as direct traffic, making it harder for site owners to identify where visitors came from.
CrUX now has experimental LCP, INP, and CLS metrics that account for navigation within single-page applications. Site owners can compare them with the stable metrics in CrUX Vis.
Mozilla has introduced Firefox Enterprise, a centralized browser management solution that can be deployed on company infrastructure. It includes policy controls, data protection, and access controls for internal apps.
All in One SEO has fixed two vulnerabilities involving shortcode execution and DOM-based XSS. Update the plugin to version 5.0.2.1 or later to protect your site.
Ask us directly. We answer within one working day. No calls out of the blue.
YAVKA
We usually reply within an hour
Hi! Ask a question or describe the task — we will reply wherever is convenient for you.
