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
I have had some difficulties working out how to do draft posts in 11ty and went with a standard solution that has worked well over the past few years. However there was one big drawback for me. Last year I decided to reduce deployment...
I have had the disks from my Drobo 5N sitting in protective cases for five years. We had a power cut while it was doing something and from that point I was unable to connect to it despite everything I tried. I did get in contact with a...
I have received a 009 Society Kerr Stuart Sirdar, a new 009 narrow Gauge loco produced by Rapido Trains UK. The next day I received a package with two more from elsewhere. I had pre-ordered one when they were initially announced, then...
In a bout of inspiration this week I changed some of the framework on this site. It started by realising that the additional content below an article was wrapped up in the article tag. I found this when I tested SEOTesting’s new Content...
Spent the weekend visiting family on the East Kent Coast and decided we would pop over to St Margarets Bay as we had not been for some time. As a kid I was over here often and my dad used to run the GPO Repeater Station on the top of the...
What is OKF Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) was released on 12 June 2026 by Google Cloud and is essentially a formalisation of something developers and SEOs have been doing informally for a while — maintaining markdown...
When I work on a site migration I like to redirect everything I possibly can find, very much in a 'no one gets left behind' sort of way. Most migration projects don't do this, for a multitude of reasons, but years ago I was told to only...
I use Fathom Analytics for measuring my sites as it is privacy based and has a great dashboard. One of the features of the dashboards is that it has keyboard shortcuts to switch between the sites being tracked. They are 1-9 and 0. 0...
11ty templates set up In my 11ty templates I generally use the same content for the title and the h1 tags. In the frontmatter I always have a title field as the title tag is actually the only required html tag in a html document, did you...
We are life members of the National Trust so try and get out to see as many locations in a year as possible. One of the highlights that always brings us back to make repeat visits is the Christmas decorations - different in every house...
Here is the recipe! Ingredients Filling 275g breadcrumbs from a gluten free loaf – Shär Vitality Loaf 225g grated mature Cheddar cheese 1 large onion grated 3 tablespoons of The Coconut Collab Double Cream 3 tablespoons chopped sage 1.5...
Having enjoyed Kaj Kandler’s presentation at the 25th 11ty meetup July 2025 I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic. Schema files Structure in 11ty...
I was having issues sorting out the redirects on Cloudflare and have learnt a few things on the way so am documenting them here – because I will forget it all whilst in the pursuit of happier things. Directory migration I made a major...
I came across an odd bug in Apple OSX Messages and reported it to Apple a few months ago, but I am sure they have had other liquidy things to focus on at the moment. I use Messages on my Mac OSX desktop quite a bit as I find typing on...
I track keywords and phrases for websites even though I have had a long held belief that it's partly a waste of time. But I do it all the same because I like to watch the long term trends - it can be fascinating! A long term high ranking...