Kaspars Dambis
@konstruktors
Building WordPress courses and enterprise-ready tools at @WPelevator. Previously Director of Systems Engineering @XWP. Blogging since 2007.
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The new types of bugs — AI prompt instructions.
On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We…
AI bots now make up over 1/3 of web traffic — and they’re scraping your content for free. The Fastly + @TollbitOfficial integration lets you detect, redirect & monetize AI bot traffic. No added latency. No extra lift. Just control + compensation. 💸 🔗 fastly.com/blog/how-to-co…
Proud of the Cloudflare team working to build a sustainable business model for the AI-driven web. Happy Content Independence Day! No AI-scraping without compensation.
We’re looking to acquire or partner on a WordPress plugin generating $60K–$150K in annual revenue. DM if interested.
What else could we host within DNS? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/g… With DIDs and DKIM and Nostr we already have identities. What else?
That also simplifies feeding your app context to AI 😅
Photo AI is 30,000+ lines in index.php
“Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google” open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-br…
What is a WordPress User? wpsecurity101.com/lesson/what-is… Check out the free lesson from the wpsecurity101.com course No signup, no email gate straight access to the lesson. You can check out the other free lessons as well.
Finally! 🎉 I tried to record and publish this course in 2023 but wasn't satisfied with the result and removed it completely. Now, it is much better! rudrastyh.com/course/gutenbe…
Calling all WordPress professionals be you a site admin, Developer or SysAdmin. Tomorrow is the release of Module 2 of WPsecurity101 all about USERS! That means today is the last chance to bag yourself a bargain and get the course for £145 instead of £195.
YunoHost is a friendlier cPanel for the modern web and non-technical people. Very refreshing! Hosts should start offering pre-installed VPSes yunohost.org
Today I learned that Docker on Ubuntu doesn't have log rotation enabled by default. I just cleaned out 20GB of logs 😅
Who here is on Nostr? Would love to follow you there, too! Please share your address or NIP-05 domain. I'm npub1s56tpp9rlprtcqeucazfqj76avqvfzfgvz5qkud74ekk8zpdx9hss09rt7 or [email protected]
Getting AI to review plugin submissions based on all the predefined criteria and historical info should be a no brainer. There are zero reasons to make theme and plugin authors wait these days.
Does "Plugin bloat" refer to the sheer number of plugins, or an effect being had on existing plugins? There are currently 401 plugins in the review queue.
Wait until you see how many are doing this reddit.com/r/overemployed
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
Here is the product that @Cloudflare just announced: cloudflare.com/press-releases… > "Upon sign-up with Cloudflare, every new domain will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, giving customers the choice upfront to explicitly allow or deny AI crawlers access."
Making money with ads and consumer subscriptions will no longer work. Publishers need to create a system where all crawlers must pay for access instead of making deals with just a select few. Share the updside in a sustainable long-term way. Cloudflare is working on a system to…