If you have an error flashing up in Unity Hub for a moment that says “Unity is already in list. you cannot locate the same version” and your editor fails to start, this fix may well work for you.
Making a UK COVID-19 vaccine Twitter bot
I’m not sure how much of my life I have spent watching progress bars, spinning circles, and animated hours glasses but it’s probably a lot. Why not make one on Twitter that can help us hold onto some strands of sanity while we wait for a COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out?
Feeding AlsoAsked.com questions into AI
What is meant by Search Engine Optimisation? If you have been involved with the internet for any length of time then you must have heard the term “search engines”. If you have used the internet to find some information about some product or service, then your search led you to a web page that was …
How I accidentally found people’s bank statements online while trying to build links
While on a foolish errand to do some ‘experimental’ link building, I found a credit company exposing peoples’ payslips, bank statements, and more online. They didn’t seem to care much.
Will Google discover pages from links on noindex pages? (x-robots & on-page)
Google will not render Javascript on noindex pages. This test will see if a page with only 1 link from a page that is marked as noindex (x-robots and on-page) will get found.
[email protected] 3D visualisation not working fix (Windows)
There is a bug is the current (v7.5.x) [email protected] client for Windows that is unlikely to be fixed soon that causes the 3D visualisation to hang in “demo mode”, but there is a fix!
SEO and PPC curated memes and shitposts
[This page can take a while to load, because Twitter.] It’s forensic When the ‘expert’ #SEO recommends the 14-page website needs an “in-depth technical SEO audit”. pic.twitter.com/jNhVc5ENBv — Mark Williams-Cook = 🅼🅰🆁🅺 🅲🅾🅾🅺 (@thetafferboy) September 21, 2020 Title tags aren’t hard MRW an #SEO is insisting there is a ‘correct’ length for a title tag. …
Scraping and identifying faces on Twitter with Python #FaceApp
There’s been a lot of very worried people tweeting about FaceApp after a story broke that it is ‘uploading all of your photos’ to Russians. Despite the story shrinking, realising that their terms are no different from any other app and they’re not actually uploading photos there are still some very worried tweets like this: …
Google’s crazy leg counting in featured snippets
I saw this thread about Google answering number of leg queries and thought I would expand to see how many I can find Google is getting wrong: Google is really, really bad at counting legs. pic.twitter.com/yM67Wy5Nan — ⓂⒶⓁⓉⒺ ⓁⒶⓃⒹⓌⒺⒽⓇ (@MalteLandwehr) May 11, 2019 Here are the examples I can find, including the ones in the …
Does noindex in robots.txt work with Google?
Post updated: 02/07/2019No, not as of September 2019, according to a Twitter update from Gary Illyes who announced Google will be dropping undocumented support for noindex in robots.txt As promised a few weeks ago, i ran the analysis about noindex in robotstxt. The number of sites that were hurting themselves very high. I honestly believe …