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Building Digital Experiences Backed by a Marketing Mindset. Long Time SEO! Founder of Strongly 🏋️‍♂️ Startups, Tech, Weightlifting & Film geek 🤘 Building with Next JS // Payload CMS // Swift 📱 https://willkennard.com https://strongly.uk

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · Jul 25

Even if you’re not a marketer, I hope the first 2/3 of this article is super interesting for you. Clears up some misconceptions too hopefully.

Appreciate any shares 💜

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How to do SEO for AI Search Engines — Will Kennard

This is a subject that is now impossible to ignore. I’ve talked about AI in my newsletter ( go subscribe, obvs ) a couple of times, but I wanted to put my thoughts in one place and cover a few important aspects of it, and give some practical advice. This is an article for both marketers who impleme

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react.dev @react.dev · 2d

Introducing the React Foundation

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 18d

For me part of the appeal of Notion is that it's really simple/minimal at first, and you can make it a bit more complex.

This feels like it's moving into something that could get bloated. I really hope it doesn't!

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Notion’s new AI Agents will basically do your job for you

The AI Agents in Notion 3.0 build pages and databases for you, and more.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 23d

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 23d

Casio wants to break into wellness tech. Its plan? A fluffy AI robot - The Wall Street Journal

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Casio Wants to Break Into Wellness Tech. Its Plan? A Fluffy AI Robot — The Wall Street Journal

The Japanese company behind G-Shock timepieces wants to bring the furry electronic pet to the U.S. and the U.K. next

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 23d

Apple mail is the best mail app. I’ve tried so many and always end up back with simple old Mail.

Although I haven’t tried Superhuman and everyone keeps banging on about it!

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 24d

Payload CMS >> Sanity CMS

Just to let you know x

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 26d

A little thread of the best O’Reilly book memes for Sunday

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 27d

Looks great, got too many books on the go for now, think I’ll aim for a Christmas read. Love a good looking hardback too 😻

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 27d

The Tahoe wallpaper is the absolute GOAT. Just lovely. #MacbookPro

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

WebFlow has built in support for LLMs.txt lol

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Yeah no updates showing, weird. Maybe UK getting it slower haha

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Mine doesn’t 😢😢

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

“The name is misleading. no-cache actually means “store this, but revalidate before reusing it.”

Finally finished @jono.id guide to caching, took me about a week 🤣

www.jonoalderson.com/performance/...

A complete guide to HTTP caching

Despite being so fundamental, caching is one of the most misunderstood aspects of web performance.

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Amazing 😂 that's better than my painting setup after 2 years lol.

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Nice 👌

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

😆😆 I did wait to the public beta tbf. Installed dev one on my iPad about a month ago and it was not great. Seems fine now though!

Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Gone Liquid Glass on my phone too. Still feels just as fast! And looks lovely. Was reluctant at first but now I’m loving this design system. Going to update my iOS app at the weekend 👌

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · 28d

Installed Tahoe on my Mac, the Liquid Glass is a really nice refreshing change I think.

Some areas do look a bit unpolished though!!

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Samuel @samuel.fm · Aug 25

few know this but CTO stands for Chief Testflight Officer

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Will Kennard @willkennard.com · Aug 15

After a week with using GPT-5 for coding, I can safely say that Claude-4 Sonnet is still way, way better. Like it's not even close.