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Chris Spann
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Technical SEO, technology ephemera, ruining the internet.

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Never knowingly underengineered a solution to a problem.
Ah I've had the opposite experience, where they're announced via email or short all hands Zoom, and that's the last contact you ever have with them and HR spend a month sending you apologetic emails and you feel bad for shouting at your line manager
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Pledged!
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Let me write this down
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Fuck sake I was just about to recommend into the breach
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My immediate thought whenever this comes up is "cool I'll write a chrome extension that detects them and now I don't need an adblocker"
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is a bit like having a conversation with my five year old
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Switching to YouTube revanced was revelatory for me
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please make prints of this!
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Weirdly I've just come across redirects.net as I was staring blankly at linkedin
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Feel like I've not been enormously helpful!
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'd love to understand how Wales is going to experience faster property price growth than London
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Normally what I do is accept I might be able to automate a % then do the rest manually; for example if all of /topic/ is redirecting to /new-topic/ then I'll do those that way, and save my mental energy for /unique-landing-page/ or /product-that-doesnt-have-a-direct-replacement/
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM