Making truly useful guides for tractors

I started writing longer descriptions for the most popular tractors on our platform. The goal is to be engaging (for tractor fans, that is), while keeping it factual and neutral.

An example of this is the section about the John Deere 7810.

It’s very nice to be able to create truly useful and interesting pages, without the objective of selling something. I also like the collaborative aspect of it. The community can make corrections and add photos, videos, reviews and questions, making it a destination that is less dry than Wikipedia and more factual than any AI generated slop page.

ChatGPT hypocrisy towards copyright issues

After having my server absolutely pummeled to death by GPTBot, copying all content on all my websites without asking, this seems hypocritical on a whole other level:

We have observed accounts associated with DeepSeek employees developing methods to circumvent OpenAI’s access restrictions and access models through obfuscated third-party routers and other ways that mask their source.

www.reuters.com/world/chi…

Amazing alternative to Sentry

If you have a Laravel project and think about using Sentry in production, there’s an amazing open source alternative that works great with Docker, out of the box: BugSink.

Self-host on your own servers and handle millions of events with no per-event billing. It saved my ass on multiple occasions now.

They offer a hosted plan if you want to avoid the hassle of self hosting. I’m not sponsored, they don’t have an affiliate program, it’s just awesome.

Early Hints with Laravel Octane + FrankenPHP

EarlyHints.dev screenshot with a satisfying result

So today I added EarlyHints to my FrankenPHP application server. I use cookies to prevent sending them on every request. It’s one of many steps I had to take to compensate for the fact that Laravel, while awesome, is just not as quick as I want it to be.

PDF Coloring Sheets

My kids ask me to print out coloring pages about twice a week. That’s where I got the idea for:

A Coloring PDFs website!

By focusing on the agriculture, transportation and automotive sectors, it nicely aligns with the other websites I’m running.

TractorFan.app

Launched a new, non gccTLD domain name for the global tractor enthusiasts:

TractorFan International

Also 301 redirected some older domains in that direction. And made the new domain the x-default in my hreflang cluster.

A bit of a gamble as it’s hard to predict how search engines will respond.

Stroom- en gasprijzen per uur, hoe werkt dat?

Ik heb met het oog op de prijsstijgingen op het gebied van energie een website gemaakt met informatie over uurprijzen voor stroom en gas. Met een dynamische stroomprijs / gasprijs kun je veel geld besparen. Sowieso is het tarief lager dan een gemiddeld variabel tarief:

Nu bezig met het in kaart brengen van alle dynamische contracten van de diverse energieleveranciers.