SEO Daily Brief
On "datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages"
Firefox's aggressive prefetching of link: rel=next is a real problem that most developers don't notice until they check their logs, and disabling it for HTML pages is the right call—you're wasting server resources and skewing your metrics on phantom traffic that never converts…
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On "NYT Cooking’s AI assistant saved my weeknight chicken, but almost ruined my cake"
AI recipe assistants work great for the thing they're actually good at—salvaging a weeknight dinner when you're stuck—and fall apart the moment you ask them to do anything that requires intuition or taste judgment, which should tell you something important about where these…
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On "Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems"
This is security theater dressed up as innovation—OpenAI's announcing a bug bounty partnership like it's frontier research when it's basically table stakes for any company handling serious data. The real story isn't that they found vulnerabilities; it's that they're publicly…
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