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Lots of Google Search documentation changes worth a look this month. Search Engine Roundtable’s November recap notes that Google’s guidance on AI-generated content now says to fact-check and review it, that Google has warned against deceptive authorship information, and that robots.txt guidance was updated for AI crawlers. The September 2026 spam…[Read more]

Figma is pushing further into AI agents. At its Config event in India, Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor for documenting your design language that both your team and AI agents can use as a reference, plus a central place for design libraries, code libraries and guidelines so agents stick to brand rules. Code layers, which turn…[Read more]

Nice supply-chain security win for PHP devs: Composer 2.11 (released 3 November) adds an optional cooldown policy. You set a period like “7 days” in composer.json, and Composer won’t pull in package versions published more recently than that, giving the community time to spot and pull any malicious release. You can exempt your own packages and…[Read more]

Laravel Herd 2 landed on 5 November, and it leans heavily into AI coding agents. The headline features are Herd Studio (agent chat, live preview, diff view and logs next to your local sites), Workspaces that give each agent its own git branch, subdomain and database, an automatic dev server, and one-click deploys to Laravel Cloud. Herd itself,…[Read more]

Heads up, Django folks: the Django team issued security releases 6.1.3, 6.0.10 and 5.2.19 on 3 November, fixing six security issues. That follows another round of security releases (6.1.2, 6.0.9 and 5.2.18) on 6 October, so if you skipped last month’s patch, there are now two to catch up on.Details are on the official weblog: djangoproject.com/webl…[Read more]

Black Friday is on 27 November, but with “Black November” deals already running, the pressure on Shopify stores is building now. I’ve just published a practical checklist for SA store builders: load testing the real checkout journey, a sensible update freeze for apps and themes, showing delivery costs early for first-time buyers, payment gateway…[Read more]