In the past. The oldendays. You know, that bricks and mortar world in which the corporeal and the incorporeal were much less, well, combined, we would do things like create lists, and go to the shops to buy the things on those lists.
AMP
AMP is the Google-launched fully Open Source mobile page speed project and service which is an abbreviation of the phrase “Accelerated Mobile Pages”.
Capable of being served directly from Google, or other search engines, without ever hitting your server, AMP pages are very very light pages which load really fast on handheld devices like smart phones and small tablets, to facilitate a speedy mobile web, even over bad and slow connections.
Gold Standard: Horse Racing on the Web
For those in the know, it’s Gold Cup week and the internet is a-flurry with coverage of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival meet where the cream of the horse racing world gather for top-class Group 1 racing.
Genuinely modern business banking from Revolut
A quick post to make a recommendation of a banking product for business which is not truly horrible.
UK & European Equivalent to RobinHood Fee-Free Share Purchase & Trading App
Is there a UK equivalent to the Robinhood share trading app which allows fee-free share trading and buy & sell transactions?
New Google AMP Warning “Image size smaller than recommended size”
If you’re running AMP for fast loading pages on the mobile web (and, if you’re not, you should give it a try, it’s awesome!), you maybe got a notification in Search Console (AKA Google Webmaster Tools) that “Image size smaller than recommended size” for some or all of your AMP content.
Search Console Error “Referenced AMP URL is not an AMP”
This error will show up in Google Search Console (AKA Webmaster Tools or WMT) if there is an error with some or all of your AMP pages.
The need for site speed
I just talked about binning Google Analytics, so it seems appropriate to show the speed impact that this action has had on this site.
“No code” and client services: developer, be less rockstar
Kelsey Hightower made the following excellent statements on “no code” (in relation to a wider discussion about serverless and Kubernetes, here which I highly recommend giving a listen to):
A Twenty Seventeen Child Theme
A while back I wrote a thing about using the More tag in Twenty Seventeen theme, and because this site uses a (hastily put together) child theme of WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme, and I described that in a little detail, people started coming into this site looking for that.
Hey isn’t there a simple Twenty Seventeen child theme I can just download and get hacking away at? I wondered. There wasn’t. At least, I couldn’t see one.
So today, I released my own.
Welcome to my website
Welcome to my website. This is a first post, also known as a “hello world” blog post.