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All articles available in EN · RU · ES (links on each article).

The "Money Button" Illusion: What Crypto Bots Are Actually For

A crypto bot is not magic and not passive income. We debunk the myths — "set and forget", "bots have no emotions", "ready-made settings" — and walk through real infrastructure (WebSockets, exception handling), API-key security, IP-whitelist, and the actual reason algo trading exists. RU · ES.

2026-05-18 · ~6 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

I audited my own SaaS for AI agents. Half my content was invisible.

A solo founder's wake-up call: I ran an AI-Readiness audit on my own site and found 12 critical issues. Here's what every SMB SaaS is missing in 2026. ES.

2026-05-14 · ~8 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇪🇸 ES

How to Make Your Website AI-Agent Readable in 2026

Practical guide to AI-agent readiness for indie sites — llms.txt format, MCP server cards, JSON-LD structured data, robots.txt for AI crawlers. What ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity actually need to cite you. RU · ES.

2026-05-07 · ~10 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

WordPress / WooCommerce Checkout Anti-Fraud — 9 Production-Tested Defenses (2026)

Real-world anti-fraud stack for indie WooCommerce stores. Turnstile vs reCAPTCHA, BIN matching, velocity rules, address validation, 14-day hold logic. Without enterprise budget. RU · ES.

2026-05-07 · ~9 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

WordPress CVE Response Playbook 2026: First 24 Hours After a Critical Disclosure

What to do when a critical WordPress plugin or core CVE drops. Triage in 30 minutes, patch sequence, monitoring for active exploitation, communication template for clients. RU · ES.

2026-05-07 · ~8 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

Trading Systems Architecture: Lessons from a Civil Engineer

Civil engineering principles — load calculations, load-bearing structures, drainage — applied to trading system architecture. An engineer's perspective on algo-trading. 🇷🇺 Russian only.

2026-05-14 · ~7 min read · 🇷🇺 RU only

Black Thursday in algotrading: how we lost 40% of accumulated profit in a single day

Honest post-mortem of Phantom Paper and NEXUS Testnet for May 6, 2026. PnL chart, what technically happened, what we changed. Available in RU · ES.

2026-05-07 · ~6-8 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

"I'm tired and might mess up" — when an AI honestly told me to stop after 5 hours of coding

Context window saturation in LLMs — what technically happens when an AI starts to "get tired", and a simple workflow trick to reset context without losing progress. RU · ES

2026-05-07 · ~4 min read · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇷🇺 RU · 🇪🇸 ES

WordPress Maintenance Cost: $59/mo vs $240/yr Real-World Breakdown (2026)

The sticker price of "$59/mo" maintenance plans rarely reflects true annual cost. Hosting, plugin licenses, malware cleanup, "out-of-scope" work — broken down with a real comparison table.

2026-05-05 · ~7 min read

Best Free Website Monitoring Tools (2026): No Credit Card, No Bullshit

8 free uptime monitors compared — UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Uptime Kuma, Gatus, healthchecks.io, and more. What "free" actually buys you in 2026, and when it stops being enough.

2026-05-05 · ~10 min read

How to Compare WordPress Maintenance Providers — A 5-Minute Checklist (2026)

7 questions every prospect should ask before signing a maintenance contract. Hosting, plugin licenses, malware, scope, billing, ownership, exit clauses — the things vendors stay vague about.

2026-05-05 · ~10 min read

Codeable Alternatives 2026 — Real Pricing, Real Hidden Costs

Codeable's $70-$150/hr rates and minimum-fee model are not for everyone. 8 alternatives compared — WP Buffs, FixRunner, Maintainn, Toptal, Upwork — with honest pricing and trade-offs.

2026-05-05 · ~10 min read

Self-Hosted vs SaaS Monitoring in 2026 — The Hidden Cost of Each

Free Uptime Kuma vs $20/mo Better Stack — when self-hosting saves money and when it just shifts cost to your time. Cost-axis vs ops-time-axis trade-offs, with a decision matrix.

2026-05-05 · ~10 min read