Ivaylo Ivanoff

What's actually in the WooCommerce telemetry payload and four ways to turn it off — your store's revenue numbers are in there, sent weekly to a third party: roots.io/disable-woocom…

A guy in Bulgaria scammed $1 MILLION out of Spotify Spotify pays around $0.004 every time someone streams a song for at least 30 seconds So he uploaded 467 tracks that were all barely over 30 seconds After this he bought 1,200 Spotify Premium accounts, set them to loop his playlist 24/7 and sat back Those 1,200 bots generated 72 million streams a month, which accounted for over $400,000 in royalties from only $12,000 worth of subscriptions. The playlists were called "Soulful Music" and "Music From The Heart" Both made it into Spotify's global top charts and "Soulful Music" hit number 11 in the US, higher than any major label playlist at the time Meanwhile the whole operation was showing up in Spotify's own weekly revenue reports They sent that data to record labels every single week for months and nobody noticed it The craziest part is none of it was illegal The accounts were paid for with real money, real premium subscribers streamed the songs and every upload had valid copyright When journalists reached out for comment, a Spotify spokesperson refused to even call it a scam He only got caught because he got too successful. Breaking into the top 50 made one major label executive look twice at the charts By the time Spotify deleted the tracks in October 2017, he had already pulled over $1 million in royalties Years later an American named Michael Smith tried to do the same scheme with AI generated music and 10,000 bot accounts He made $10 million in royalties but to make it work he had to buy bulk email addresses, lie directly to Spotify when they flagged him and pay for subscriptions using fake names on corporate debit cards Those lies turned the whole operation into wire fraud The DOJ busted him in 2024, he pleaded guilty and had to return $8 million Same scam, different execution and a small detail changed the entire outcome One guy became rich, the other is waiting for his sentencing

MilliCache is a Redis-backed page caching for WordPress with surgical flag-based invalidation roots.io/millicache-red…

Pro tip: add a Cloudflare WAF rule to block common scanner paths like .env, .git, wp-login they get blocked at the edge and never touch your server

✨ We built WP Composer — an independent, open source Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes, with 17x faster cold resolves than WPackagist wp-composer.com

I really like the navigation in Laravel Cloud and decided to implement it in Filament v4. Check out the tutorial and code in the first reply ⬇️

Goodbye, Vercel. Goodbye, Datadog. 🙋‍♂️Hello, 20 lines of bash. 🚨 Instant alerts on your phone when your service logs an error. Free, simple, and effective.

I was interviewed by a Bulgarian journalist and writer. We spoke about programming, writing, philosophy, and the thin line that connects all of them. It was a great conversation, and even though it's not in English I wanted to share it here. karamanev.me/sreshti/alexan…

Turn on this VS @code Sticky Scroll setting and never be lost again

Tao of Node: A book about REST APIs and architecture with Node.js producthunt.com/posts/tao-of-n… by @alexanderkondov

Designing A Better Language Selector smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/design… via @smashingmag #ui #ux

Serif Fonts in UI Design ift.tt/VhvRYob

It is impressive how far CSS has come! 🤯 Dark/Light mode switch with system settings detection in 7 lines of CSS

Neubrutalism is taking over the web. by @michalmalewicz in @uxdesigncc uxdesign.cc/neubrutalism-i… #design

Take a minute to check this: Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding growth.design/case-studies/a…

shaper - A useful tool for exploring UI variations. You can copy the result in CSS. hihayk.github.io/shaper/

Why are hyperlinks blue? blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-cu… via @firefox

🤫 New shortcut: Press . on any GitHub repo.

Креативният Link Building – възможност или утопия serpact.bg/kreativen-link… #SEO

Mastering the Basics of Icon Design with Adrien Coquet by Jeremy Elliott blog.thenounproject.com/mastering-the-… #design