An honest look at AdSense RPMs for general content versus better niches, how AI Overviews cut clicks and traffic, plus the real traffic steps to Mediavine, Raptive, and Ezoic—and when upgrading pays off. Always verify current thresholds yourself.
A $20-a-month AI website builder can get a simple site live fast. Here’s where those tools win—and where hiring a human still makes sense for a small business.
Next.js 16.3 ships first-party agent Skills, including next-dev-loop. Here is what it is, how I set it up, and how it changes building with a coding agent.
How I use openssl rand -hex and -base64 to make strong secrets for my site, when I pick each one, and how I use them for auth, cron jobs, and setup tokens.
The React Compiler is stable and built into Next.js 16, but it is still opt-in. Here is what it does, when I would turn it on as a solo dev, and where I still write useMemo by hand.
I upgraded this site to Next.js 16—Turbopack builds, Promise-shaped params, and a partial-rendering behavior change that quietly turned one of my security assumptions false. Here's the real upgrade: what broke, what was a non-event, which headline features I deliberately didn't adopt, and the habit that caught the subtle stuff.
