Having a lovely time with a coffee and @forgottenworlds.bsky.social while my daughter is at Ballet

It's new job day! I work at @surveymonkey.com now!

@toygrind.bsky.social I pray for your PO Box

Why stop at phrenology when you can add another old pseudoscience to justify racism.

It's bonfire night so this brave boy has got his special hat of fortitude on

OHGM actually stands for "oh! herculean guidance, man"

You absolutely don't need another few hundred words about Grokipedia but here's some anyway: How Grokipedia has created an impossible problem for Google: chris-spann.co.uk/grokipedia-g...

Has to be “Orson Welles from Transformers: The Movie”

They tried pulling this when Millennials were the age gen z is now, but back then it was a coffee every day. Even intergenerational blame is affected by inflation

I run past this building all the time and I am pretty sure the gate only unlocks if you have three chess piece shaped keys

I absolutely guarantee you there's 34 septims and a levelled sword in there

Fell asleep at my laptop last night midway through writing a blog post about image hashing. Didn't realise it was possible to fall asleep while partaking in such a high octane pastime

What Brighton SEO taught me about Corporate Technical SEO for Global Businesses: If you spend three days living on beers, Subway sandwiches and little coffees and then spend six hours on a train it will take your brain about 5 days to recover to the point where it can handle corporate technical SEO

Great news for Phishers everywhere

betamax is back - as a laser disc

Well I'm going to have to read this now

Tiny, stupid hill I am prepared to die on: we need a new term other than hallucination to describe when an LLM is just factually incorrect

Watching @charlesmeaden.bsky.social speak at Brighton SEO and resisting the urge to shout "YES!" roughly once every fifteen seconds

Absolutely wild to see how excited so many people are to install what is basically Chrome but with a big hole in the side of it labelled VULNERABILITIES

Incredible infographic at the state fair

Sort of annoying how brilliantly actionable @jlwchambers.bsky.social's Brighton SEO talk is

Listen right, if you have a small personal website and you want some free analytics but don't want GA4 (Nobody wants GA4), goatcounter.com is absolutely perfect. I don't know why I've felt the urge to tell you this now, but here we are.

If you want one of these stupid stickers come find the stupid guy with this stupid badge #brightonseo

Off to Brighton!

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Hey I don't work at Lumar anymore! But don't worry, I'll be working somewhere else soon and I'm well excited about it

I think they called it "React" because "Recoil in Horror" is harder to market

Public Service Announcement. @ballxpit.com

I love good news, don't you? My favourite type of news

Happy Friday youtu.be/V_D-qJ4hfss

Hello, I am a billionaire who owns an LLM. Me and the lads have had a chat and we've decided to cancel all the novel physics and cancer curing we said our models can do and instead focus on tackling the internet's only true everest: AO3

Why are all AI generated images so yellow?

I've been working in SEO for 15 years now. I don't ask for much, but dear god please one day let Boots or Superdrug get a penalty so I can make my "IS THAT BECAUSE THEY WERE SELLING LYNX" joke

In the runup to the last ChatGPT update Sam Altman was talking about how it was going to allow users to stare into the face of god Now: it'll write you smut and emojis are back baby!!!

So does the 8 mean there's 8 letters between the two Ns, or are we calling it n-eight-en

Re-up for the evening crowd: uncovered some weird grok behaviour, found some weird keywords, none of it makes sense. chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...

Bloody hell is Brighton NEXT WEEK??

Wrote up a little unsolved mystery I found in a few client GSCs; accidentally discovered that Grok will Google stuff then lie to you about it: chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...

I can't wait to see how chatGPT led purchasing goes down with millennials, who famously won't buy anything more expensive than a jumper on anything other than "the proper computer"

"The new site's React"

Want to read a story about solving a weird issue with embedded YouTube videos not showing in video search? Of course you do, you're only human. Luckily I've got one right here!! chris-spann.co.uk/what-happene...

If you're struggling to hit a PB in your exercise of choice and you're thinking of trying supplements to give you the edge, I really recommend a big spoon of righteous fury

Shout out to our local yodel pickup shop who, years in, still seem equally baffled and furious every time you go in and ask for the parcel of yours they have

Is refreshing your inbox the same as manifesting

Shout outs to my fellow huskier folks who are looking at the weather getting colder and whispering "outfits" to themselves in a sort of quiet reverie

Archive.org is so enormous, and its search is just wonky enough, in about 20 years I reckon you'll have people performing digital archaeology on it

Actually the most 2025+ thing I've seen all day by a long shot. love that.

I'm not convinced social media is a good thing, but it does let me see that a musical hero of mine, a man who has soundtracked the last 25 or so years of my life, a man whose every lyric I pored over as a 16 year old, also forgets his coat at exactly the worst possible time and then typos in anger

I've just had an incredible idea for some black hat LLM japery Does anyone have a (ideally a majestic million) wordpress site I can ruin?