Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

WPVibe.ai just passed 40k installs 😍 I'm truly humbled by the kind words and support from our community. If you've been following the journey, just 2 weeks ago, we were at 20k installs!! WPVibe lets you connect your WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites. If you've not given it a try yet, you're seriously missing out. WPVibe is a game changer!! AI + WordPress unlocks a new level of flexibility and power that no other platform can match. You can start for free at WPVibe.ai Huge shout out to the work @johnturner and team are doing in implementing user feedback and continuing to make WPVibe even better.

Claude Code just shipped mods... I made one that connects you to a multiplayer Doom server while Claude is busy. Every other player in the match is a person waiting for their Claude to finish.

Since we published the big Google Ranking Factors Expert Survey, I’ve shared many of the graphics with clients. A good chart can often explain a complex SEO concept *instantly* So we went BIGGER 🌎 We took all 103 ranking factors from the survey and put them into one giant mega-graphic. It’s seriously huge, and it can help folks see at a glance which "factors" experts believe help/hurt your visibility in traditional Google search results + AI answers (1/2)