Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
Latest Posts
A recent Mastodon post and blog post about writing less from Matt Gemmell made me think about the old short posts this site used to have. They were quick thoughts and links to remember for the future so I am starting them up again and I...
Steps to verify your website on your Mastodon profile Winters coming (Nothern hemisphere) and it's time to migrate. There is a large outbreak of avian birdflu around at the moment and in short people are looking toward other platforms to...
Time to sit back and do some model making Lockdown in 2020 had been an odd year. I was really busy – which is a good thing but a surprising one. Initially, I thought we would have no work, I would have a lot of time on my hands and I...
Chrome now natively lazy loads images and I explore how to do this with Cloudflare's Workers Some time ago Cloudflare announced that they were making Workers available. More recently, Google has built image Lazy Loading into its Chrome...
SEO experiments that no-one really cares about but they do increase the probability of other tests being useful. Pludgebanger. Every now and again I search for a word on Google that does not exist. Some people create words for their SEO...
I wanted to see if I could use Google Data Studio (formally Google Looker Studio) to report on site migrations from http to https The four different variants of your website — http, https, www and non www — are seen as different websites...
I built a new rail-bus in the style of Reinier Hendriksen I was inspired to build a copy of one of Reinier Hendriksen’s rail-buses from his original article of April 1999 edition of the 009 news, after I read the archived material from...
The most vigorous software for quality content and SEO Safecont was an online SEO tool from Data elasticity S.L in Spain, that analyses your website content and highlights where you should consider improving the content. Google is...
Embrace the security push With the announcement that Google will be highlighting all non-secure sites., https, from July 2018 website owners need to think about how their sites are being delivered to the public. For those not yet aware...
Canonicals can trip up your sites SEO Originally conceived for situations where articles were duplicated they would reference the original. Google tends to choose the oldest version of a page that it can find (but not the only method it...
Have you been unable to verify account name or password, or changed your keychain password and had issues with Apple mail and services such as Linkedin, Google, Flickr, Vimeo? I have had this situation and I was able to solve it with a...
without having that DNS propagation wait As part of an upgrade to a site we wanted to add a blog to provide news and updates. The site was flat filed so putting it onto Perch was the obvious way to go — there were plenty of other...
French meter gauge goods shed I was invited to display one of my layouts as part of the celebrations at the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway in France. a few years ago. Whilst there I picked up a plaster cast kit of a classic wooden goods...
Body work for the SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM In my first post about this new 009 kit of the Deutz. I got as far as adding ballast into the chassis. I then created added the cranks without the rods. This is quite a delicate...
Work in progress gets out the house Recently I realised that it was five years ago that I had built the baseboard framework after Richard Glover gave me the plans for Whitesands Quay. Yes, I have moved house since and yes I have a lot...