SimonCox

SimonCox

@simoncox.com

Tech SEO, and other things, other things Michaeleen. Available at https://www.simoncox.com and https://seocommunity.social/@simoncox Also does board games (euro not family) and narrow gauge railway modelling and bakes bread.

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SimonCox
@simoncox.com

I do this several times a day. Simons law: By the time you have found the response gif you were looking for the funny side of what you were going to post has diminished somewhat and you just close your social media app instead with a small amount of relief that you didn’t reply.

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Andrew Optimisey
@optimisey.com

Today's the day! The inaugural #SEOPundayMonday! Today's theme: COUNTRIES & CAPITALS IN AFRICA Need some help? Countries: www.afro.who.int/countries Capitals: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... #SEOPundayMonday go! === Wanna know what it's all about/how to play: bsky.app/profile/opti...

Andrew Optimisey@optimisey.com

Welcome to #SEOPundayMonday, the new Bluesky hashtag game to bring a bit of fun to kick-off your week. Here's all you need to know to join in...

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

Have a powercut - wife can’t watch strictly - i’m currently cooking a risotto on the gas hob by candlelight with a glass of Chianti (channeling Keith Floyd) and the log burner is keeping us warm. A cold wind blows in from the East…

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

Well have a client on 123reg (Go Daddy owned) and they still have not patched the PHP. I have had to shut the WP site withhtaccess so its not vulnerable. Can't get anything out of 123reg when the fix will happen (of course) so I have set up a cron job to ping me every 30 mins with the php version.

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

So 123reg put up a notice on their status page declaring that all thier severs were now patched. I know that CPanel doesn't show the sub versions but the WP install does, when its running, and my cron job is also telling me that the 123reg server this site is on is not patched. #Tut

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

Thought I'd pop in on an old chum I'd not seen for a while... Oh. Does Bing use Yandex servers?

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Vivaldi Browser
@vivaldi.com

Some of you have been asking whether or not Vivaldi is affected by Chrome’s #AI API, which some websites are using for tracking purposes. The answer is straight-forward: no. ✌️ We disable all the Gemini-related code bundled in Chromium, effectively preventing websites from using this API in Vivaldi.

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Andy Bell
@bell.bz

for some reason wordpress decided not to make the chart the featured image, so here it is

Andy Bell@bell.bz

New on the blog

bell.bzIn response to “The death of web development education”I read Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem. The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time…

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Gary Illyes
@methode.bsky.social

Depending on what side of LinkedIn you're on, you're going to run across JEV, hyped as the new shit of LLMs. It is not. It's the marketing hype of discriminative models, induced by some folks discovering that frontier LLMs really shouldn't be used for classification tasks (for a bunch of reasons)

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Joel Herron - Pica Pica Press
@joeyheroin.bsky.social

The nerve is great. If you don’t read it then you should. Hey @thenerve.news want me to print some paper copies for you with my Riso?

THE NERVE@thenerve.news

Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

OSX27 is better then 26 so far though you know all those warnings about universal apps not working in future versions of OSX - thats hit home now. Had to reinstall Git, and 4 other apps, Divvy isn't working and I really liked the keyboard shortcuts in Divvy. so far - good.

SimonCox
@simoncox.com

I ponied up for Rectangle Pro to sort out my window positioning shortcuts - surprised I had not come across this before - Divvy was good though - this may well be a lot better! At least it works with OSX27! rectangleapp.com

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Anton Shulke
@antonshulke.bsky.social

@sejournal.bsky.social just wrote about #seocharity @rustybrick.com @glenngabe.bsky.social @lisapaasche.bsky.social @techseovitals.com @zachchahalis.bsky.social @anaprecup.bsky.social @louisafrahm.bsky.social @fajela.bsky.social Michał Suski www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-for-paws...

searchenginejournal.comSEO For Paws Live Stream Conference: Free Tickets & Big Names For A Good CauseBarry Schwartz and Glenn Gabe headline SEO For Paws on Sept. 23. A free live stream on the state of search, raising money for pet shelters in Ukraine.

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Count Binface
@countbinface.bsky.social

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Tantek Çelik
@tantek.com.web.brid.gy

What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb? As several have shared before me: * own your domain and publish some content on it That’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or however you would […]

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