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Google Search Console Updates – Content Keywords & Site Grouping

If you manage a website the chances are that you’ve heard of and use the Google Search Console, the artist formally known as Webmaster Tools. If you’re sitting there scratching your head and wondering what I’m talking about then go and check out this article from Moz and get yourself started. The console is always […]

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Getting back to podcasting

You should be very aware that I love a great weekly newsletter. One of my recent favourite newsletters to receive is Paul Jarvis’ Sunday Dispatches where Paul imparts a very useful piece of nerdy knowledge each week. The content is around 95% educational and allows you to learn a lot about the web and how […]

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Is CriticalCSS harming our site performance?

In a recent article on Medium, JP DeVries wrote about “Unfolding Critical CSS“. Are you building a single web page that users will visit once never to return to or are you building a multi–page website that most users click around on for a while? If you inline an average of ~20kB of critical CSS […]

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My local WordPress MAMP site slow

While I was on the train ride home today I was writing an article on my local copy of WordPress when I thought to myself “This is actually slower than working with the patchy wifi and GPRS”. The best thing about running your site locally is that you do not require an internet connection to […]

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Accessibility Dashboard – Pa11y Dashboard

Today I came across a wonderful article by Una Kravitz, a UI Engineer over at Digital Ocean, about how to set up an accessibility dashboard for your site/s in just 15 minutes. Usually these kinds of articles say “it’s easy! All you need to do is after you set up NPM, Gulp, Grunt, Node, Ruby, […]

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Min | A smarter faster web browser

This is a pretty fast little browser that I can see myself using more and more. It’s light weight and at the moment not the hog that some of the others are (looking at you Chrome on Mac). It doesn’t have anything in the way of dev tools so it’s not practical for work, but […]

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GoldenLayout

Golden layout is a multi-window javascript layout manager for webapps Visit Link

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XKCD Garden

This is a strange XKCD, but also a little bit of fun. The page loads blank with the ability to add up to three grow lights. You can position them on the screen, change the angle of the light, change the light focus (wider and lighter or narrow and brighter). Apparently you can also change […]

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tmux

A program that sits on top of iTerm. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more. Visit Link

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Analytics Academy

Subscribe to get your free email course! You’ll learn the basics of how to think about analytics and level-up to implementation strategies for what data to collect—each as one lesson per week. Visit Link