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DyadStats dashboard: telling humans from bots July 4, 2026

The DyadStats front page is now a live dashboard that separates real visitors from crawlers and blocked bots across every tracked site — with a leaderboard of…

World Cup fixtures and TV guide July 4, 2026

A self-contained World Cup 2026 page — every fixture with its running score, and which channel (BBC or ITV) each match is on — is now linked from the homepage…

The network, on the front page July 4, 2026

The homepage now shows the other projects in the Half Baked Ideas / CyberMat network — Local Journal, CamWebDir, CamVino and DyadStats — each with a few live…

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Recipe ingredients now read naturally July 2, 2026

The recipe bank now understands everyday recipe phrasing — "the rind of 2 lemons", "a few drops of vanilla essence", "plain flour for dusting" — splitting each…

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The Cambridgeshire parish directory fills out July 2, 2026

The directory now lists a website for 182 of the county's 239 parish and town councils — up from 145 — after a sweep recovered dozens the national source index…

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New Home Page Launched June 23, 2026

The CamWebDir search engine project has recently been rebooted. Its mission has been refined and a ton of work has been done to train its bots and search for…

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CamWebDir now finds job vacancies June 22, 2026

CamWebDir now spots careers pages on the sites it crawls and works out which hiring platform each company uses. Where a platform publishes its openings…

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Capacity caps and waitlists June 20, 2026

Events can now carry a cap on numbers. Once an event is full, further yes-RSVPs go onto a waitlist and are promoted automatically, oldest first, when someone…

Venue headcount share links June 20, 2026

Event hosts can now share a no-login link that shows a venue the headcount for a booking and nothing else: numbers, never names. It gives a restaurant a covers…

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Recipe bank is live June 21, 2026

The Quesadilla recipe bank is now public. Ingredients are stored once and reused across dishes, so a tweak to an ingredient flows through every recipe that…