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Merchant Center and free listings still cost nothing, but since mid-September 2026 free product blocks have reportedly vanished in the EEA. Here is how to tell if you are affected and what to check.
Akash Mohapatra · October 28, 2026 · 7 min read
GitHub Agentic Workflows is generally available. Each run is capped at 1,000 AI Credits ($10) and each workflow at 5,000 a day ($50) by default, and the docs' own K and M examples raise that sharply.
Akash Mohapatra · October 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Software GuidesWhich plans include Gemini notes in Google Meet, who receives the notes doc by default, where it is saved, and the documented reasons the button is missing or no doc arrives, read from Google's pages on October 29, 2026.
Akash Mohapatra · October 28, 2026 · 9 min read
Software GuidesSlack replaced Later with a To-dos tab in October 2026. Here is where your saved items went, how to build a Slack to-do list, and which task tools Slack's own pages say need a paid plan.
Nihar Rout · October 28, 2026 · 6 min read
Software GuidesTailscale published four security bulletins for SSH and Serve and shipped v1.104.4 on October 28, 2026. Here is which of your nodes are in scope, how to update, and the interim setting.
Nihar Rout · October 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Software GuidesStripe debits every marketplace refund and dispute from your platform balance first. Here is how to recover it from sellers, when to reverse the transfer, and the Sharetribe payout trap.
Nihar Rout · October 27, 2026 · 10 min read
Software GuidesWhy FTS5 rank is negative, how to weight titles over bodies, why scores collapse to -1e-06 on small tables, and how to quote user input. Every figure checked against the documented formula.
Akash Mohapatra · October 27, 2026 · 8 min read
Software GuidesEight steps to a working Google Calendar booking page, why its time slots go missing, and which features Google keeps behind a paid Workspace or Google One plan. Read against Google's help pages on 2026-10-28.
Nihar Rout · October 27, 2026 · 8 min read
Software GuidesA Playwright test that fails once and passes on retry leaves your CI green. Here is how to count those flaky tests, keep the trace of the first failure and reproduce them, checked against the 1.64 docs.
Akash Mohapatra · October 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Software GuidesA Stripe deposit is one net number covering many sales, refunds and fees. Here is how to match it to Stripe's itemised report, record it in QuickBooks Online, and chase a payout that never arrives.
Nihar Rout · October 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Software GuidesA seven-step Quartz 5 setup for publishing an Obsidian vault to GitHub Pages for free, built around what the docs say about drafts, attachments and public repositories.
Nihar Rout · October 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Software GuidesSet up continuous SQLite backup to S3 or a compatible store with Litestream v0.5, then learn why a replicated transaction can still fail to restore and which settings widen the window.
Akash Mohapatra · October 24, 2026 · 9 min read