Many news sites give you a few free articles a month, then ask you to subscribe. The count has to live somewhere, and on most sites it lives in your browser: a cookie that goes up by one with every…
If you work in search, you’ve probably had this argument. Your page ranks third. A colleague says it ranks first. You’re both looking at the same query on the same day, and you’re both right, because…
A cookie banner asks “Can we use cookies?” and most people assume nothing happens until they answer. This case study runs on a made-up outdoor shop, Peak Outfitters, built the way plenty of real shops…
For most of the war, the Bosporus itself has been the quiet part of the Black Sea. Ships queued off Istanbul, paid their lighthouse fees and went north or south as they always had. The danger began…
On 13 February 2026 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came to Boğaziçi University to open a dormitory. To receive him, the university shut its own campus. Classes went online. Students living in the dormitories…
For most of Istanbul's history the only way across the Bosporus was a boat. The first bridge opened on 30 October 1973, timed for the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, and turned a city of two…
Mozambique sits on some of the largest gas discoveries made anywhere this century. Between 2010 and 2013, drilling in the Rovuma Basin off Cabo Delgado found well over 100 trillion cubic feet of gas…
Sites change their trackers all the time, and nobody tells their readers. A new ad deal, a new plug-in or a theme update can add a company to every page overnight. The Last visit section is there to…
Picture the owner of a small clothing shop. She added a cookie banner because her web designer said the law needed one, and she assumes nothing goes out until a visitor clicks Accept. This case study…
The best time to find out what a page sends is before it’s live. Watchkeeper opens a local copy as easily as a public site, so a developer can check a build on their own machine before anyone else…