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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 1d

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...

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 2d

A shopping trolley on a pavement. Inside there is only a 2L bottle of volvic, lying on it's side.

Inside is 1.7L of urine.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 2d

youtu.be/G5_uaLKpoRQ?...

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Chris Johnson @defaced.dev · 10d

Got bored and built a background removal tool that after removal adds a checkerboard background and saves it without transparency.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 11d

when a client gets an agency sales pitch and the critical priority tech SEO issues get forwarded on for me to comment on

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 11d

the youtube vs yt-dlp arms race is hilarious, because of how lopsided it is.

on the one hand, you've got a company with the GDP of Denmark who has about a manhattan-project's worth of developers they can assign to this.

but on the other end, you've got every bored or annoyed javascript hacker.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 11d

I am editing a blog post and it just seems to be a list of gripes, apologies in advance (I am getting older, this is to be expected).

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 11d

Ghost fishing but it's a VPS with GSA / Xrumer / SeNuke just running and running and running. Shitting all over the internet until the card expires.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 18d

The problem with describing classic works of philosophy as "challenging" is it doesn't capture the distinction between those that are legitimately arcane, and those that are talking about something a middle schooler could grasp but keep circling the point like the author's getting paid by the word.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

turkey fiddlers 😑

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

whenever I mention Google's 'twiddlers' I start doubting myself and think it might be 'fiddlers' and eventually talk myself back out of it because that would sound much worse.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

It might - I also can't remember if this was client side date+time or server side date+time.

it's lucky I stumbled across these screenshots but this is such a mess which is why I never put a blog post out.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

can't edit, I misread that first screenshot - it's a URL from the start of the test being recrawled and using the correct dates (I think the aim was to see if older URLs would canonicalise to "current date")

Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

One part of this was the Search Console interface seemed to mislead about the time quite a lot?

(I don't think this part is quite interesting enough to rerun, and I may be misrembering - my guess was schedule date)

cc @markwilliamscook.com @adoubleagent.bsky.social (I think I saw you on Linkedin)

URL inspection tool with some date discrepancies - the crawled page content matches the last crawl content, but the URL is 2 days in the future.

A Google search result with a timestamp of 23 September, but the SERP snippet title is 26/09/2022

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 17d

In 2022 my blog had a noindex page which linked to a URL containing today's date in a ?

These destinations were getting requested and indexed > 6 months later.

Used for discovery: ✅
Used for PageRank: idk, I'm not a wizard.

Didn't publish because I migrated my blog forgetting any running tests 😢

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 19d

"hey, let me ask the guy(s) I asked you, the sycophant machine, to make up based on very little detail (wow, you've made the most generic guy(s) based on your training data! - I'm loving these responses!)"

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 19d

Twitter is making up a guy to get mad at
Personas are making up a guy to help

Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 19d

For some reason when people say 'potential audience' or 'ideal customer' I'm fine, but as soon as they say 'persona' I think they are being too cowardly to admit they enjoy astrology.

1. I am being unfair.
but also
2. I have never seen personas applied in a way that didn't leave me more confused.

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 19d

Some Kind Of Monster is one of my favourite documentaries

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

I enjoyed the book about the making of as well - iirc they were originally making a short promotional fluff piece but things kept getting worse.

‘Never fails to delight’: why Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers celebrating their most rewatched comfort films is an ode to the scrappy 2004 music documentary

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 20d

I hope I remember this when it would next be useful.

chrisleverseo.com/blog/how-to-...

from @chrislever.bsky.social

How to fix Shopify crawl issues in Screaming Frog and Sitebulb using Web Bot Auth - Chris Lever

If you’ve ever tried crawling a Shopify site at scale, you’ll know how quickly those dreaded 429 Too Many Requests errors can derail your audit. For years, it has been one of the most common frustrati...

chrisleverseo.com

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 21d

I wandered along to both the 'Unite the Kingdom' and 'Stop Trump' rallies in London over thr last week. Here are some photos from each...

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 24d

Bots everywhere -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Yordan Dimitrov @yordan-dimitrov.com · 24d

Google Removed the &num=100 earlier this week.

I collated insight from several sources to get a balanced overview.

Google Removed the ‘&num=100’

Discover the impact of Google's removal of the '&num=100' parameter on SEO tools, analytics data, and how it's reshaping the measurement of success in SEO.

www.reflectdigital.co.uk

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Oliver H.G. Mason 📉 @ohgm.co.uk · 24d

Thanks for sharing - I was looking for a list of these cliches the other day because I kept coming across what this calls "Negative parallelisms" in blog posts.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 24d

TIL that LinkedIn will start using our personal data and content to train their AI models.

This setting is set to “on” by default, unless you opt out.

➜ You can turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Or go to Profile > Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

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