Infrastructure
PHP2Shell: What Website Owners Need to Do Now
Two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind WordPress and most of the web, were fixed on 21 October. Here’s what they are, how to check your site, and what to ask your host.
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Proton Mail Free Plan (2026): What You Get and Where It Stops
Proton Mail’s free plan is one of the few free inboxes that isn’t paid for with your data. It is also tightly capped. Here is exactly what you get, the limits you will hit first, and when it is worth paying.
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Email Providers
KT8 Mail vs Fastmail: Own Your Email, or Let Someone Else Worry About It?
KT8 Mail puts your email on your own Cloudflare account. Fastmail looks after everything for you. I help develop one and I earn commission from the other, so here's an honest look at what owning your email really gives you, what it costs you in responsibility, and who should pick which.
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Link Inspector: Find every broken link on your website
Links quietly break over time, so I’ve helped build Link Inspector, a tool that checks your whole website and shows you exactly where each broken link is.
Updates
What’s New in KT8 Mail: Masked Email, Smarter Spam Checks and More
A personal catch-up on what’s changed in KT8 Mail since launch, and a couple of side projects I’ve been helping with alongside it.
Email Providers
KT8 Mail: Private Email on Your Own Cloudflare Account
KT8 Mail is a new email service that you own outright: your own domain and your own Cloudflare account, with no mail company in the middle. It starts from Cloudflare’s Agentic Inbox, improves on it and makes it simple to install. Members can request an invite code today.
Fastmail
HEY vs Fastmail: Which Email Provider Is Right for You?
HEY wants to reinvent how you handle email, while Fastmail wants to fit however you already work. After six months inside HEY and years of writing about Fastmail, here's an honest, fact-checked comparison of pricing, features, privacy and the trade-offs that matter day to day.
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