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I made TypeSafe's Jev model play noughts and crosses and checked every move against a perfect solver. The model never changed, but the way I described the board and worded the question took it from 55% to 83% best moves.
Most AI analytics tools markup API costs by 300-1000%. I built AI Data Stream with a different approach: bring your own AI keys, pay zero markup, and get the context your AI needs to actually explain what’s happening in your data.
The Nginx Bad Bot Blocker script is fantastic and a no-brainer to install on any Nginx server hosting publicly accessible websites. As great as it is though, I’ve recently noticed a significant increase in the number of attacks on the servers which I administer and websites in general. So I looked into into integrating the
When using certain CRMs and marketing automation tools, Contact Form 7 submissions can all look like they came from the same form. This is especially noticeable in HubSpot which uses the class on the form tag to identify each form. Unless you specifically add a class to the shortcode then it will look like any
When recently working on a WordPress website that generated pages from an API that aren’t stored in the main site database, I discovered that the W3 Total Cache admin bar link to clear the current page’s cache didn’t work. The ‘Purge Current Page’ link in the Performance menu item works by passing the current post
In the page caching settings of W3 Total Cache there is an option to flush the ‘Post Terms Pages’ when saving or updating a post. This clears the listing pages for any terms that the post has been added to, but it doesn’t clear the listing pages of any parent terms that aren’t checked, even
How to map a Synology NAS with Windows 11 that you previously had connected with Windows 10
If you find that PDF files aren’t updating after changes, it could be that they are cached by the browser or a CDN such as Cloudflare.
Customizing the invoiceninja V5 client portal colour scheme.
Simple on demand Disqus comment loading without any library dependencies. Automatically loads when linked to directly and optionally for search engines.
I recently bought a new pc, and was a bit quick to install Windows, create a backup drive and remove the disk to install the larger ssd from my previous computer. The upshot of that was that, after installing the operating system on the new drive, it wouldn’t activate Windows as I didn’t fully activate
I recently ran into an issue whilst trying to change the nameservers for a German (.de) domain name. When I tried to point the domain to a whm/cpanel install I got the error ‘Failed to Modify Domain Nameservers: The domain DNS check has failed’. The reason for this is specific to .de domains.
There are many articles out there on how DNS prefetching works so I will keep it brief. It works by adding a link to the head of your web page with a relationship of ‘dns-prefetch’ and the url of a domain which holds assets needed for the page to load. That could be a cdn
For a while now in Google webmaster tools there has been an option under the ‘optimization’ tab called ‘Data Highlighter’. This is their new attempt at an alternative to structured data (or another way to add it without changing the structure of your pages). It is essentially a wizard interface to get Google to understand
Adobe recently released their ‘blank font’. It is essentially a font which contains no glyphs and is basically a css hack to stop the flash of unformatted text when using webfonts. I wrote a long time ago about how to cache the font files when using @fontface. That method can be used in conjunction with this
Spam mail is an unfortunate fact of life. The more things we sign up for, the more our addresses get sold as marketing lists. There is one area where we can try and minimise the collection of email addresses though and that is when pasting them on a website. These days, content management systems such
Last month (April 2013) Twitter announced the introduction of a new set of meta tags known as ‘Twitter Cards’. Adding these tags to your site allows extra information such as an image and description to be attached to any tweet which contains a url of a page on your website. You can read the twitter
Contact forms are supposed to make it easy for users to ask a question or just get in touch. These days, with all the captcha and anti-spam methods attached, the chances of a form being filled in incorrectly and not being sent is highly likely. The number of people using mobile devices who might loose
I was recently asked a couple of times about international SEO and targeting websites with similar content at the correct people without just serving up a duplicate site. The most obvious example of this is a .com website which is meant for American audiences and .co.uk which is meant for England, but it could also be
Ok, so I moved my site. I used to have a domain called serach-friendly-web-design.com, I moved all that stuff to here because I thought that the information I gave was benifical to other people and I should retain the pages. So basically, if anyone goes to an old page they will get to see what
I stumbled upon this yesterday whilst looking for something completely different… In windows 7 and vista you can activate a hidden ‘god mode’ which creates a desktop control panel giving you direct access to many useful features.
Although not on the official page speed site, Google have actually released a version of pagespeed that runs on Firefox 4. Why it’s not on the site I have no idea, I would imagine it would have something to do with pushing developers towards chrome. Anyway, the link is here:
I’ve been working for a search engine optomization company for many years now. I still see the whole process offered by many companies as a little bit shady. At the end of the day, nobody can make a search engine do what ever they want. You can’t pay google to move you up higher in
If you have the beta test version of firefox then it can be quite annoying when you upgrade to find that most of your addons don’t work anymore. I used to scour the internet for working versions that people had managed to pull from google trunk, but last night I discovered a must have extention
NOTE: This post is old and not relevant anymore. I have removed the link as it no longer works! Facebook has just released its new messenger for windows but it only runs on Windows 7. Prior to this there was a leaked version whilst in beta phase that ran on Windows Vista. The new version
Well, the google +1 works fine, the tweet this button is cool, but really…..FHTML is rubbish. Basically facebook never picks up the current url through fhtml, unless I’m even more stupid than I think I am. Here’s how to get facebook to take the right url for each page.
Many people seem to be having this problem. Here’s 2 solutions I found.
Placing a flash movie or Google map on your page can be useful, but not when menu drop downs fall behind the flash object or iframe.