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/ 🙏🖤

Oof, that’s a brutal decline data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...

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

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 But it never is… as there are always out of date dependencies to sort out before a simple date change can be deployed successfully.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.

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.

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...

That’s the gluten free veggie sausage rolls done! Been making variations of these for many years.

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.

Strictly final is on - perfect. Gives me 2 hours 10 mins for Cyberpunk 2077. Boom.

The Christmas cheese just arrived - I have sampled the Stichelton - chefs kiss!

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]

Gah! Nearly finished a job and there’s a powercut - whole village is out. I could tether into this phone but a brew beckons. #seolife

THEY. ARE. BACK. TOMORROW LIVE! We’ve got ⭐️ Dawn Anderson (@dawnieando.bsky.social) and ⭐️ Dixon Jones (@dixonjones.bsky.social) for SEO Office Hours, alongside Jo Juliana Turnbull and Michael Chidzey, this Friday at 9:30 am (GMT). To join live, head over to our website. Everyone’s welcome ❤️

Refactored my personal site today. Had been meaning to build category pages for ages and knocked up a tags page to see what I had used - right old mess so the first job was to go through all the tags and rationalise them - and fill in all the missing ones. Good job jobbed. #11ty

Only 6 days to go! pop-the-bubble.xyz Hat Tip to @rhys.wales as 'twas in his newsletter!

🍾 Unfinished Business #138: Would you like a glass of champagne? unfinished.bz#ep-138 In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy and Rich talk about retainers and maintenance contracts, and Andy asks Richard’s advice on how to sell them to new clients

What a ride this week has been! Yesterday, Google announced another core update had started rolling out. And right before the Christmas holidays! But never fear, we've got an excellent lineup this morning for SEO Office Hours at 9:30 am.

OH - my Flickr Year is out - How it started - 404 How it finished - 0

Radiohead sings "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" youtu.be/4D6_IhZA9Cg?...

Yes - Tricky one done with no clues or mistakes! Get in! cluesbysam.com

🎅 We’d like to give away a FREE magazine to Bluesky to say thanks for helping make this project a success 🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week vole.wtf/doctype/

just gonna share this a couple more times cause i really like the thing we’re making, and think it deserves reach

ICYMI: Yesterday I released my new game - Mari Lwyd's Pantri Panic. Organise Christmas food within your Pantry! Play for free here - rhyswynne.itch.io/mari-lwyds-p... - downloads for Windows/Mac/Linux are available. Here's the release post - www.rhyswynne.co.uk/mari-lwyds-p... #gamedev #pico8

Hello there! If you and your team are looking to level-up your Design System by introducing a bespoke Design Tokens workflow, I have availability in January. Let's talk! 🙏🖤

🚨 YouTube drop alert! Our brilliant hosts Simon Cox (@simoncox.com) and Mike Chidzey were joined by two SEO legends - Bengü Sarıca Dinçer (@bngsrc.bsky.social) and Geoff Meakin - for #SeoOfficeHours. 📺 Catch the full episode now on our website, and 📅 add SEO Office Hours invites to your calendar!

The 2025 Remastered Big Lizard in My Backyard album plus the alternate take tracks are now available for digital download from our pals at The Giving Groove! thegivinggroove.limitedrun.com/products/871...

incredible writing

I’m eclectic, I’m in a family full of eccentrics I’ve done things you never expected And you need more time

You know that thing where you twist in your chair and the arm rest taps into your desk and all you screens instantly turn to dark mode… that just happened. or was that just a coincidence today?

In the early 1940s, Directors General of the BBC, Cecil Graves and William Haley spoke about the revolutionary technology of radio and television broadcasting. [read attached image] Now read that again, this time replacing ‘broadcasting’ with ‘AI’ and imagine how different things could be. #ai

Well that was an interesting search term from Bing WMT: simoncox + paypal -site:facebook.com -site:instagram.com -site:youtube.com -site:tiktok.com -site:paypal.com -site:linkedin.com -site:reddit.com -site:soundcloud.com -site:stripe.com -site:adyen.com -site:squareup.com and i ranked 1! Get in.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We've hit peak Psychology Humour

Happy birthday @zeldman.bsky.social 🎂

You can keep your Poirots and your Marples, the greatest murder mystery moment on tv is when John Nettles discovers Selina Cadell has been popped into a tumble drier

Drat! I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 25th 2025 (Easy), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟡🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

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🆒 NEW GAME! 🆒 Only the coolest people can draw a Cool S really fast vole.wtf/cool-s/

One nil to me then.

Help guide the future of Eleventy by participating in the Eleventy Community Survey (and Suggestion Box) 11ty.dev/survey/2025/

Can you beat my time? I drew a Cool S in 9.74 seconds, rating 🧣 Chilly vole.wtf/cool-s/

⏰ It’s that time again… Your friendly neighbourhood Kelvin here, once again shilling to convince you to sign up for the #brightonSEO & #HeroConf ballot. forms.gle/HMnSVmmWy4fm...

Adobe is acquiring Semrush (~$1.9B) 🤯 Combining AI-driven marketing with SEO & GEO expertise to give marketers a full view of brand visibility across search, AI and web! investors.semrush.com/news/news-de... #SEMR #ADBE

While you are sitting around waiting on Cloudflare to resolve itself, you can make some annotations… 😀

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