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09/01/2026

Need a cold beer to kick off Football season? Check out Oakestown Brewery in Grandville! And while you are at it, check out the website I made for them last year!

Or for their sister brewery Harbor Light Brewery in South Haven. Great places!

08/10/2026

Looking for repairs for your Apple devices, of maybe a used Mac? Try my friends at Grand Rapids Macs!

And while you are there, check out the refreshed website I recently built for them!

Used MacBooks, MacBook Repair & iPhone Repair at Grand Rapids Macs. We Sell Used iMacs, iPads & iPhones. Cash for iPhones, iPads & MacBooks.

06/18/2026

Despite the hype, 97% of llms.txt files receive zero traffic. No bots and no humans are fetching them. Our study of 137k sites suggests these files are currently a speculative bet with almost no impact on AI visibility. If you publish one, don't expect it to be read.

We analyzed 137K sites & found 97% of llms.txt files are never read. See why bots ignore these files & what this means for your AI visibility

06/01/2026

Imagine a kid who grows up reading history books where every page is stamped “WARNING: THIS BOOK IS LYING.” You’d expect them to come away skeptical, or at least uncertain. New research on so-called “negation neglect” finds that LLMs in a roughly analogous situation don’t behave that way. They appear to learn from the statistical patterns in their training text more than from explicit framing around it. Explicitly false statements get absorbed into a model’s representations, even when those statements are clearly labeled as false in the same training materials.

Fine-tuning tests show "bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true."

05/27/2026

The perfect video about Ai! This wins the internet today!

If AI was a person, it would never pass the job interview.SOURCES:Starbucks fires AI: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-scraps-...

05/19/2026

A great conference that I had the privilege to attend!

CRTA had the privilege of attending the ARDA 2026 Spring Conference in Las Vegas. This serves as one of the primary timeshare industry events each year.

05/09/2026

I just had an argument about this the other day with a client. Turns out I was right!

FAQ rich results will no longer show in search and the Search Console features will go away.

05/09/2026

I'm a big fan of Cloudflare!

When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation.

05/04/2026

Some recent WordPress attacks have come through plugins that were acquired by new owners and turned into malware... here is a great resource to stay on top of this type of thing

Checksums for the WordPress community. Every plugin uploaded to WordPress.org receives a corresponding checksums file like this: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin-checksums/woocommerce/8.6.0.json. These checksums are used by tools like WP-CLI to verify that nothing has been tampered with. Many....

04/21/2026

Disappearing Google Reviews... So one of the things scammy SEO companies are doing these days is creating phony reviews for their clients, or just setting them up wrong. Both are bad ideas...

4 likes, 1 comment. "Disappearing Reviews, New Business Name Policy, AI Visibility How-to|E28 The Whitespark Local Update"