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.
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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🚨 YouTube drop alert! Two SEO legends - Becky Simms and Josep M Felip - joined Michael Chidzey and Jo Juliana Turnbull for #SeoOfficeHours. 📺 Catch the full episode now on our website, and 📅 add SEO Office Hours invites to your calendar!
January 14, 2026 at 11:54 AM
🚨 YouTube drop alert! Two SEO legends - Becky Simms and Josep M Felip - joined Michael Chidzey and Jo Juliana Turnbull for #SeoOfficeHours. 📺 Catch the full episode now on our website, and 📅 add SEO Office Hours invites to your calendar!
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"Deterrents are a funny thing. If someone demands that you follow their orders or they’ll burn your house down, so you do, and they burn your house down anyway … well, you’re a bit of a fool if you keep on doing what they tell you, aren’t you?"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
"Deterrents are a funny thing. If someone demands that you follow their orders or they’ll burn your house down, so you do, and they burn your house down anyway … well, you’re a bit of a fool if you keep on doing what they tell you, aren’t you?"
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12 months ago, I deleted all my content from Twitler. Here's how I did it. brucelawson.co.uk/2025/deletin...
Bruce Lawson's personal site
» How and why I deleted all my tweets
brucelawson.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
12 months ago, I deleted all my content from Twitler. Here's how I did it. brucelawson.co.uk/2025/deletin...
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Just remembered this classic yet again (stick with it til the chorus, trust me) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNG...
Toto - Africa (Vocals 1 Step Out of Key & Off Beat)
YouTube video by Pluffnub
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January 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Just remembered this classic yet again (stick with it til the chorus, trust me) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNG...
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Countries with an Independent International Search Engine
March 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Countries with an Independent International Search Engine
Went on a ramble around Scotney Castle at the weekend - lake was completely frozen!
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Went on a ramble around Scotney Castle at the weekend - lake was completely frozen!
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"Don't touch that plug._________"
January 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM
"Don't touch that plug._________"
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The dust of decades settles on your keyboard as you push aside lines of vendor prefixes
Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter
ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS
www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/
🙏🖤
Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter
ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS
www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/
🙏🖤
ReliCSS - Web Interface
www.alwaystwisted.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The dust of decades settles on your keyboard as you push aside lines of vendor prefixes
Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter
ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS
www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/
🙏🖤
Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter
ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS
www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/
🙏🖤
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Oof, that’s a brutal decline data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...
- Stack Exchange Data Explorer
Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers
data.stackexchange.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Oof, that’s a brutal decline data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...
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SEO Pricing for Independents, Freelancers, Consultants theseocommunity.com/resources/bl... by @ilovechoclates.bsky.social
SEO Pricing for Independents, Freelancers, Consultants
Preeti goes through different freelance pricing models, and how to determine your price, price the engagement efficiently, and things to watch out for.
theseocommunity.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
SEO Pricing for Independents, Freelancers, Consultants theseocommunity.com/resources/bl... by @ilovechoclates.bsky.social
From the Search Engine Roundtable newsletter…
Hmmmm. Define 'working'. (of course it depends…)
🤣
Not a complaint - I love John's meme report!
#SEO
Hmmmm. Define 'working'. (of course it depends…)
🤣
Not a complaint - I love John's meme report!
#SEO
January 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
From the Search Engine Roundtable newsletter…
Hmmmm. Define 'working'. (of course it depends…)
🤣
Not a complaint - I love John's meme report!
#SEO
Hmmmm. Define 'working'. (of course it depends…)
🤣
Not a complaint - I love John's meme report!
#SEO
Jan 1 - copyright date update day. Simple.
But it never is… as there are always out of date dependencies to sort out before a simple date change can be deployed successfully. This is the day of the year I miss using php.
But it never is… as there are always out of date dependencies to sort out before a simple date change can be deployed successfully. This is the day of the year I miss using php.
January 1, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Jan 1 - copyright date update day. Simple.
But it never is… as there are always out of date dependencies to sort out before a simple date change can be deployed successfully. This is the day of the year I miss using php.
But it never is… as there are always out of date dependencies to sort out before a simple date change can be deployed successfully. This is the day of the year I miss using php.
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Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬
It’s very windy outside - some felt has come off the shed roof.
Also it’s quite windy inside - I have found the pickled eggs.
Also it’s quite windy inside - I have found the pickled eggs.
December 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s very windy outside - some felt has come off the shed roof.
Also it’s quite windy inside - I have found the pickled eggs.
Also it’s quite windy inside - I have found the pickled eggs.
Sausage roils away!
Thanks to @hejchristian.com and @jonassickler.bsky.social for asking for the recipe! Here it is:
www.simoncox.com/post/2025-12...
Thanks to @hejchristian.com and @jonassickler.bsky.social for asking for the recipe! Here it is:
www.simoncox.com/post/2025-12...
Gluten free veggie sausage roll recipe
My version of a classic vegetarian sausage roll recipe.
www.simoncox.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sausage roils away!
Thanks to @hejchristian.com and @jonassickler.bsky.social for asking for the recipe! Here it is:
www.simoncox.com/post/2025-12...
Thanks to @hejchristian.com and @jonassickler.bsky.social for asking for the recipe! Here it is:
www.simoncox.com/post/2025-12...
That’s the gluten free veggie sausage rolls done!
Been making variations of these for many years.
Been making variations of these for many years.
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
That’s the gluten free veggie sausage rolls done!
Been making variations of these for many years.
Been making variations of these for many years.
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Halved the traffic to my own site last week by putting a Cloudflare challenge in place for traffic from a country where all the traffic was hitting single pages, 1 an hour, with no interaction (thank you Clarity), all from a variety of cities, no referrers.
The challenge does not stop real users.
The challenge does not stop real users.
December 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Halved the traffic to my own site last week by putting a Cloudflare challenge in place for traffic from a country where all the traffic was hitting single pages, 1 an hour, with no interaction (thank you Clarity), all from a variety of cities, no referrers.
The challenge does not stop real users.
The challenge does not stop real users.
Strictly final is on - perfect.
Gives me 2 hours 10 mins for Cyberpunk 2077. Boom.
Gives me 2 hours 10 mins for Cyberpunk 2077. Boom.
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Strictly final is on - perfect.
Gives me 2 hours 10 mins for Cyberpunk 2077. Boom.
Gives me 2 hours 10 mins for Cyberpunk 2077. Boom.
The Christmas cheese just arrived - I have sampled the Stichelton - chefs kiss!
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Christmas cheese just arrived - I have sampled the Stichelton - chefs kiss!
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Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas: a series of animated shorts featuring Gromit having to deal with the aftermath of Wallace’s inventions (like a rabid cracker vacuum and a remote-controlled shopping cart). Free on YouTube. [kottke.org]
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas
In 2002, Aardman Animations produced a series of short episodes called Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. In each episode, Wallace unveils a new invention, which Gromit then has to deal with. For the holiday seaso
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December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas: a series of animated shorts featuring Gromit having to deal with the aftermath of Wallace’s inventions (like a rabid cracker vacuum and a remote-controlled shopping cart). Free on YouTube. [kottke.org]