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Terminal screen of the lynx browser displaying google.com, which prompts the user to update their browser

Terminal screen of the lynx browser displaying google.com, which prompts the user to update their browser

ARE YOU TELLING ME MY LYNX BROWSER NEEDS TO BE UPDATED?!?!

05.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Martin informed me since that md can also have JS so, naturally, my year is ruined

03.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a cartoon snail with a purple background ALT: a close up of a cartoon snail with a purple background

does that mean we'll have a JavaScript-less internet?! πŸ₯Ή

03.03.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Who comes up with a name like "Punch, the monkey"?! No wonder everyone is bullying the poor thing

26.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten points for... well, not effort for sure

24.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Genius tech bro move:
Inventing the paragraph,
Calling it a chunk.

#showerthoughts

19.02.2026 10:39 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

I don't know

04.02.2026 07:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#showerthought What if the moltbook is not a demonstration of sentience, but a reflection of humans' (and bots') online shenanigans.

03.02.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know

03.02.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#showerthought LLMs rarely reply with "I don't know" to a prompt because we, humans, rarely ever admit online that we don't know something.

03.02.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

The coding agent I'm testing just suggested that we send temperature readings in Celsius to an LLM to make conversions to Fahrenheit, instead of making the conversion on the device, because ultimately we want reliability.

So, yeah...

18.01.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

ah, that was a good, albeit exhausting day. relatedly, also the day I learned the word "stanchion" o.O

17.01.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ah yes, the two loves of my life. my talk will be titled "how to get fired 101"

15.01.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Posit 1: browsers don't particularly care about the status code of the parent frame, they'll happily display wherever content the server sent.

Posit 2: crawlers very much care about the status code and they'll drop anything with non-content/transition status.

#MisuseEverything

10.01.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh great, you broke it

29.12.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds β€˜shaky foundations’ and eventually β€˜things start to crumble’"

fortune.com/2025/12/25/c...

29.12.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

curl?

23.12.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we migrated the googlebot.json file to a new location with a 301 redirect, would that break your fetches? Or the fetcher would just follow the redirect

developers.google.com/static/searc...

23.12.2025 10:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

KEDAKAI! AS GOD MADE HIM

16.12.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh, drive-by Conan.

we should be friends

16.12.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Google Search

www.google.com/search?q=67

I'm so confused...

16.12.2025 08:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

fine

30.10.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

can we stop now

30.10.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

not particularly, no

29.09.2025 19:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Update on the Autocomplete API Β |Β  Google Search Central Blog Β |Β  Google for Developers

Subtwee... subblue: using something as an API doesn't make it an official API.

developers.google.com/search/blog/...

20.09.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ask me how it's going at the Shenzhen SEO Conference.

19.09.2025 06:53 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Intro to How Structured Data Markup Works | Google Search Central Β |Β  Documentation Β |Β  Google for Developers Google uses structured data markup to understand content. Explore this guide to discover how structured data works, review formats, and learn where to place it on your site.

I'd check the documentation and if you can't find anything relevant, file a feedback. Our tech writer checks the feedback quite often and makes improvements based on them.

developers.google.com/search/docs/...

08.09.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think John is on it, don't wanna step on his toes

28.08.2025 13:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I do

28.08.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Crawler best practices This document describes best pratices for web crawlers.

I don't cos I'm on vacation, but we put this up with mirja a few weeks ago: www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

20.08.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0