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Dave Smart
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(semi) professional goth. Full-time idiot with a computer. Tech SEO & Dev at tamethebots.com #Webdev #TechSEO
You don't want technical SEO that's too runny, or too thick. It has to be a good consistency, or the Goldilocks of ranking will complain.

I often think it's doing quite "boring" things right, often the same way, over & over. I find that satisfying, but I get it's not the most exciting thing ever.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's a shame you can't set auto responses " thank you for your submission, it has been forwarded to the Google Web spam team"...

Mind you, probably automated anyway, & that's assuming they'd care a fig even if they did read that.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Mincing fruit is bound to be a little dangerous. I guess you can never guarantee it's 100% free of someone's fingers.

But it does have a "these underpants MOSTLY have no deadly scorpions in them" vibe doesn't it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Much like hotdogs, they did apparently used to have meat in them, the sugar and spices acting as a preservation method.

To be fair, unlike hotdogs I don't yearn for the return of beef in them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'll have look over the coming days
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
yeah, for sure, and it would be a good aim to see if those could be reduced too.
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
email me a example of some rules, if you want btw.
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I think a preflight thing where you could enter a URL and see what happened would be essential
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
>I know you know but for clarity of "I'm not a d*ck, honest" - the 'by this afternoon' part was a joke.

Oh 100% understood!

Yeah it's an interesting one alright, I think a tool might be cool, even it it's just a few of the more popular systems supported.
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
> Have it on my desk by this afternoon
I can offer *an* afternoon. Perhaps 😉

Big problem is there's no one method / flavour of specifying, so your wordpress system will be different to cloudflare, which is different to nginx etc. But does sound like an interesting problem.
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sounds interesting, what would you want to input, and what would you expect the output to be?
a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo asking , `` you rang ? ''
Alt: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo asking , `` you rang ? ''
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
“The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.” - Horace, An Epistle to the Pisos, circa 100 BC.

Tale as old as there have been grumpy old bastards, which has been since about forever in human history.
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Loved the episode, and it reminded me I miss the weather frog on android.

Being on an episode was naturally a real favourite moment, and a favourite episode is perhaps Zoe Clifford's one on rendering youtu.be/XBT_DUzUbOI?... (hard to choose, I am a sotr fanboy)
Rendering JavaScript for Google Search | Search Off the Record
YouTube video by Google Search Central
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm here for the explanation of your exploration.
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Neat.
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It seems to have promise! I've heard a few folks talk about pinksky, hope it's a federated (is it federated?) proto that takes off?
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM