web development

What Is a Canonical URL in SEO and When Should You Set It?

How Google picks one URL from a set of duplicates, and how to influence it.

What Is a Soft 404 Error and How Do You Fix It Fast?

Why Google treats some 200 OK pages as missing, and the two correct fixes.

When Does Django 5.2 LTS End? Support Until April 2028

The official support dates for Django's current long-term support release.

How Often Does Google Chrome Release a New Version?

Chrome moved to a four-week major release cadence in 2021. Here is how to read the official schedule.

WordPress 7.1.3: The Third Security Update in Three Weeks

WordPress 7.1.3 (Oct. 6) fixes seven security issues after 7.1.1 and the critical 7.1.2 in September. Patchstack's severity breakdown, the cached-embed gotcha, the new canonical MCP Adapter plugin for AI agents, and a six-step checklist for site owners and freelancers.

ufo vs URL: 2.4 KB vs 0.5 KB Gzip

cookie-es vs cookie: 2.3 KB vs 1.4 KB Gzip

Dayjs vs date-fns: 3.5 KB vs 6.9 KB Gzip

UnoCSS vs Tailwind v4: Which Ships Smaller CSS?

UnoCSS 66.5.2 (presetWind3) vs Tailwind CSS 4.1.13 (@tailwindcss/vite) on Vite 7.3.6: 80 HTML cards, same utility set, minify off. CSS 10,454 B (118 selectors) vs 18,473 B (119). Warm vite build medians (7 rounds, cache cleared): Uno 749 ms vs Tailwind 416 ms. Fixture /workspace/bench-unocss-tw/.

Vite vs Parcel: 0.69s vs 1.72s Cold Dev Start

Vite 7.3.6 vs Parcel 2.16.4 on a 40-page React 19 TS fixture (147 modules): cold serve-ready median 692 ms vs 1,718 ms (~2.5x); cold prod build wall median 2,586 ms vs 1,806 ms; JS 228,426 B vs 227,172 B with Parcel --no-source-maps.

oxfmt 0.72: native Markdown formatter, Prettier 3.9.9 parity test, sorted imports in code fences (5 Oct 2026)

oxfmt 0.72.0 (5 Oct 2026) swaps its Prettier-backed Markdown path for the native oxc_formatter_markdown (breaking). ShopperCove formatted 221 Markdown drafts with oxfmt 0.71.0, 0.72.0 and Prettier 3.9.9: byte-identical output, ~2 s vs ~16 ms. Plus opt-in import sorting inside code fences, the documented divergences, ignore-file and LSP fixes. No affiliate links.

Ready Client Sites live demos: 15 prebuiltwebs previews, admin panel, SEO checks (Oct 2026)

New Ready Client Sites angle: ShopperCove fetched all 15 live prebuiltwebs.com demos — client-rendered React SPAs with hash routes, built-in admin/enquiry/upload APIs, placeholder content JSON, no robots.txt/sitemap, soft 404s — and turned it into a pre-purchase SEO and handover checklist. Distinct from the Node.js packs and launch-checklist posts. One disclosed hop. No purchase.