Every builder has a graveyard. This month mine got a new grave.
Index Health Monitor was an SEO tool with 59 passing tests. Then I found out publishing it needed a paid plan, and it quietly died on my laptop. Most side projects go that way: they don't fail, they fade.
Side Project...
Lantern Sale: a frosted-glass Halloween promo template 🎃
Lantern Sale is a Halloween promo for anyone running a seasonal offer: SaaS plans, coffee shops, online stores. A jack-o'-lantern lights up behind a frosted glass card while the deal, promo code and button build in, in an...
"Discovered" vs "Crawled – currently not indexed" need opposite fixes
Two Search Console statuses get mixed up all the time, and treating one like the other wastes weeks.
Discovered – currently not indexed. Google knows the URL but hasn't fetched it yet. Nothing has judged your...
Launched a site and it's not showing up in Google? Before rewriting content, check the boring stuff. These are the first five things I check, and each one is quick to find and fix.
1) A leftover noindex. A staging setting (meta robots tag or X-Robots-Tag header) shipped to...
Copied something on Linux, closed the app, and the paste came up empty?
It's not a bug. On X11 the clipboard holds no data, only a promise. The app you copied from keeps the content and hands it over when you paste. Close the app and the promise goes with it.
A few xclip...
