There is a bug is the current (v7.5.x) Folding@Home 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 …
How to fix Windows 10 bootrec /fixboot ‘access is denied’
If you’re getting the ‘access is denied’ error when trying to fix your master boot record (MBR), this fix will have you going in a few minutes.
Google appears good at ignoring canonical tags on non-equivalent pages
TL;DR SEO test
I created two key phrase unique pages and tested if I could get one to rank for the other by using the canonical tag. Google completely ignored it.
How to bulk delete Twitter likes instantly through Chrome
You can quickly and easily delete all of your Twitter likes through Google Chrome, without having to use an app.
Svertorobotingle – PHASE ONE of indexing (no javascript)
TL;DR SEO test
New pages can appear almost instantly in Google SERPs for keyword searches. It appears it takes longer for Google Search Console to report these pages as indexed and that operators such as site: info: and cache: do not work immediately.
Catan Universe: Friend online but can’t join or invite to game fix
I recently had an issue with the phone app version of the Settlers of Catan game, Catan Universe. My friend and I could see each other online but could not join each other’s games.