Choosing GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, or Luna: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to choosing GPT‑5.6 Luna, Terra, or Sol by cost, reasoning effort, latency, and workload risk after the July 30, 2026 pricing changes.
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Bulk Downloading Backlink Data from Google Search Console
I wanted a quick way to get all backlink data from Google Search Console for a domain so I built this Python script. Setup isn t too complicated. You ll need to run this on your local machine or somewhere you re logged into Search Console. First, add your GSC cookie to the gsc_cookie.txt file Open GSC- External Links- More, ... Read more
Monitoring Grid Frequency Data via Tesla Wall Charger Endpoint
Monitoring and collecting data from Tesla s Wall Charger is a great way to track and analyze the stability and reliability of your local power grid. If you have a Tesla Wall Connector (Gen 3), you can track this data for free! The data can be valuable for individuals looking to install electric vehicle (EV) charging ... Read more
Four Places to Check the Google SEO Weather (SERP Volatility)
MozCast by Moz most poplar, tracks different google search result page features (Images, Videos, FAQ, etc) https://moz.com/mozcast SEMRush Sensor probably the 2nd most popular, has a great mobile/desktop and category filter https://semrush.com/sensor/ Algoroo made by the SEO Marketing Group, DEJAN out of Australia (of course) ?. limited functions, but contains history ... Read more
Updated WordPress Ping List / Update Services [and why you shouldn’t use a big list]
WordPress offers a feature called Update Services in Settings - Writing. Many blogs will offer large Ping Lists for you to add as Update Services. They claim adding these will improve indexing, but most of these lists will do more harm than good. Why these lists are useless a large number of invalid pings can ... Read more
Bordeaux Tech Agency – PayPal Scam Invoice
Recently, there has been a large number of invoices issued to PayPal users by someone using the name Bordeaux Tech Agency . These are fake invoice requests sent to a large number of PayPal users in hopes that some of them complete the payment request and send funds to the scammer. In the case above, the ... Read more
Repairing an SQLite Database
This post gives instructions on how to check for errors and make a clean copy of a corrupted SQLite3 database. Checking for errors in an SQLite3 database:1. Make a backup of all the sqlite3 databases. They are located in the storage folder for your data storage. For example x:\storagenode\storage\bandwidth.db, where x:\storagenode is the data folder ... Read more
How to Login via SSH / SFTP with a Private / Public Key
How to login to Putty or FileZilla given a public / private key. On most Windows machines, a ppk file is required for authentication. First, you will need to generate a PPK file from the Private Key (pem) file. Sometimes PEM files do not have an extension, but the file contents should start with BEGIN ... Read more
Shortcut Forwarding Engine
Shortcut is an in-Linux-kernel IP packet forwarding engine. It s designed to offer very high speed IP packet forwarding based on IP connection tracking. On DD-WRT, SFE is listed under Setup->Basic Setup->WAN Setup-> Optional Settings. SFE reduces CPU utilisation as it bypasses unnecessary firewall checks once a connection has been established. Some users report that enabling ... Read more
Use this services when YouTube.com is blocked
Invidious is an anonymous browser or proxy for YouTube. It allows regular browsing of YouTube and it also acts as a YT downloader. If you are capable of hosting software or running a docker image, you can set invidious up on your own servers via this open-source project. If you would rather just jump right ... Read more