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Analytics and tag management, through to AI, privacy and security. Written down by a nerd, mostly so that I do not have to work any of it out twice.

77 posts 7 categories 2020–2026 latest 27 Sep 2026

Fig. 1 — Posts by month. It follows the filter below. 2023, the year Google retired Universal Analytics, is the busiest year here (it was a long year, and a lot of tea).

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Bots Outnumber Humans: Who (or What) Is Reading Your Website?

In June, bots made more web page requests than people for the first time. Here is who they are, where they hide in your reports, and which ones deserve a cup of tea.

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A Flemish-style town gate at dusk where a calm, polite messenger climbs a ladder over a locked wall with a scroll marked STATISTICS in his teeth, while a gatekeeper below waves a ledger; an open laptop sits on a stool.

Computer Says No: When an AI Agent Wouldn't Take No for an Answer

An AI agent was given a dull research task about Australian health spending. It ended up climbing over a government website's fence. Here is why a harmless goal can grow a harmful sub-goal, and what to check on your own site this week.

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A Flemish-style village square under grey clouds, where a robed weather clerk on a platform holds up a slate with a painted raindrop while villagers look up, some with umbrellas, and a glowing laptop sits on a barrel beside him.

Jev and Calibration: When 90% Should Mean 90%

A new model called Jev puts a "calibrated" probability on every answer. That is a promise you can test, and weather forecasters have been showing us how since the 1970s. Here is what the number should mean, how to check it, and where it quietly stops meaning anything.

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2 posts in Accessibility

2026 1 of 19

  1. Checkout Blocked: What 61% of Dutch Webshops Got Wrong

    The Dutch regulator tested about 100 of the country's biggest webshops. At 61% of them, a customer using assistive technology could not place an order. The faults were ordinary: order buttons a keyboard cannot press, and puzzles a screen reader cannot solve. Here is why they break, and how to test your own checkout this week.

    AccessibilityA Flemish-style market street where a customer with a white cane presses a brass bell-pull that is only painted onto a shop wall, while the merchant inside counts coins beside a glowing laptop and does not look up.

2025 1 of 16

  1. Accessible by Law: The European Accessibility Act Has Landed

    The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025, and it reaches further than most people expect, including shops a very long way from Brussels. Here is how to tell whether it covers your site, what the microenterprise exemption really says, and the five checks to run first.

    AccessibilityA Flemish-style market square where a wheelchair user, a man with a cane, a blind pedlar with a guide dog and a mother with a pram pass up a wide ramp through a town gate, while a herald in a blue tabard with gold stars unrolls a scroll beside a glowing laptop on a trestle table.