New #doctorwho theory… It seems more or less canonical that when The Doctor regenerates, they choose a face from their own past. Someone they’ve seen before. But where does the personality come from? Why are they grumpy, or funny, or cunning, or brave? Well, what if that personality is also someone they
Linux is thirty years old. From a single email back in 1991, Linux has touched nearly every aspect of modern computing. Early in my career, I was deeply embedded in the Microsoft stack and, like a lot of developers around me, felt like having an MSDN subscription made me part
I’m pretty relaxed about the whole Timeless Child thing. I get why some parts of Who fandom are angry about it, I get why some parts are confused by it (I am, if I think about it too hard), and I get that a lot of people are fine with
The Jurassic Park Test was one of the first pieces of SEO advice I wrote. It was one of the first chapters I wrote for The Truth About SEO and one of the first videos I recorded for YouTube. Here I am, all the way back in 2019 waxing lyrical
A quick shout-out to a tool I’ve used a few times now for easy site migrations – the 10Up Site Migration Tool. https://github.com/10up/MU-Migration A free, open-source alternative to the migration capabilities of tools like UpDraft, 10Up Site Migration has helped me move sites from standard WordPress installations and multi-site installations
When the news broke that Google had lost its appeal against the 2017 ruling that deemed it had “self-preferenced” its own services in search results, breaking EU antitrust rules, I was fortunate enough to see this excellent post from Thomas Höppner (Partner at Hausfeld & Professor of Law at TH
Towards the start of this year, Rand Fishkin’s SparkToro caused a minor Internet storm when they highlighted that two thirds of Google searches ended without a click. SEOs were outraged. Some were outraged with Google for stealing traffic whilst others were outraged with SparkToro; complaining about what they claimed was
The clock is now officially ticking for any website developers who’ve been saying “Page Experience only affects mobile” to clients, with Google setting their deadline for when it will start to roll Page Experience into desktop search as a ranking factor. It’s coming, and it’s coming in February 2022. Although
Leaving #digitalmarketing means I have a chance to call things out thst I previously would have put aside for fear of looking like I was going out of my way to have a pop at competitors. Something I’ve noticed this week is a number of marketeers on social media asking
I joined a writing group recently and as a published writer it seems people expect me to know about… stuff. Writing stuff. Editing stuff. Publishing stuff… The first question they’ve come up with is help writing a synopsis… Where to begin? I decided to start out by explaining the difference