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What we're shipping this week.
A running log of what askmeidentity is shipping, thinking about, and reading. Follows the /now page convention popularized by Derek Sivers. Updated every Monday. Last updated .
Week of May 25, 2026
Shipping
- Months 4-6 SEO plan distribution surfaces — per-category RSS, JSON Feed, WebSub.
- Embed widgets — glossary, JWT decoder, incident tracker (iframe-able with CC BY 4.0 attribution).
- IAM Top 50 Tools 2026 award page + methodology.
- 5 directory pages — podcasts, newsletters, books, conferences, YouTube creators.
Thinking about
- What the AI search citation graph looks like after Wave 51 — speakable + Dataset + ItemList schema everywhere; expecting Q3 to lift us from ~5/30 to ~10/30 cited queries.
- Whether the next move on PAM is a "PAM in the era of AI agents" pillar or a quarterly vendor-moves cadence — leaning toward the latter.
Reading
- OWASP Top 10 for Non-Human Identity 2026 draft
- NIST 800-63-4 final draft commentary
- Auth0 / Okta CIC consolidation post-mortem from a customer architect
Past weeks
Archive.
Week of May 18, 2026
Shipping
- Wave 51 wrap — IAM RFP template generator + PAM vendor selector quiz + compensation benchmark research surface.
- Two pillar pages — IAM certification roadmap + IAM frameworks compared.
- Sitemap + speakable selectors carried through.
Thinking about
- Whether to publish the State of Identity 2026 raw dataset as JSON + CSV for AI-search citation, or keep it scoped to the visualized report.
Week of May 11, 2026
Shipping
- Wave 50 — 37 new pages: 12 city landing pages + 20 practice × industry intersection pages + 4 fresh insights + Dataset schema rollout.
- StickyContactBar on case-study detail.
- InlineContactCta wired into the MDX components map.
Thinking about
- The case for one cleanly-scoped pillar (cert roadmap) every two weeks vs many shorter how-tos — pillars compound for SERPs + AI search.