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
What is myrm.club? myrm.club is a new way to display your model railway layouts so that people can find them quickly. I have created a page for each of my layouts and an overall page for Simon's Narrow Gauge Model Railway Layouts. It...
Last week we were hit by a sudden storm. We missed the sky clouding over, it was very quick and then there was an almighty flash and instand thunder that shook the whole house. Our power went off before the thunderclap stoppped. It was...
A new model of a row of cottages The baseboard of Whitesands Quay is bigger then the original plan by Reinier Hendrickson and so I had to introduce additional features which includes a back row of buildings. This started off with a row...
The AI revolution really began in 2022 for the common person but 2023 is the year where it really took off. Whilst everyone is trying to get the most out of ChatGPT, already on v4 Google Released its own text prompt AI yesterday called...
The old cottages Originally my extended layout design had two old single story cottages at the back between the shop and the boat builders. When I set out all the buildings on the plan and added some height to the back row I realised the...
Google Search Console sends out automated emails for issues including the 'Page with redirect' as an issue. If that's expected behaviour – you have changed a page URL and added the redirect – then check your sitemap.xml. Hopefully...
GSC was flagging some Canonical issue on this site so I decided to add the canonical using the page.url parameter in my base.njk nunjucks include. <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.simoncox.com{{ page.url }}"> However, I have...
I don't have a games console but really wanted to play Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out and Google Released it on Stadia so I go the package. It included a Chromecast Ultra and a very nice hand controller. Sadly, as with many Google...
I realised that the sitemap.xml file was listing the 404 page - we really don't want that in there as the search engines don't want it. The 11ty sitemap.njk file had the answer in its frontmatter for any page you don't want in a...
I have tried to add Webmentions to the site having read Max Böck's post on this and then Chris Bongers post - both very helpful and bewildering at the same time! Have found my natural limit again having got so far with 11ty!
No issues with coding the pages up as and when I need but if I am on the go somewhere making changes to the site will have to wait - except that I have now installed the Netlify CMS! It's very lightweight for a CMS and is based on the...
Many many years ago I owned a Spectrum +3 computer. For some nostalgia the Spectrum +3 operating manual is online. My friend Nick and I programmed a D&D Character generator in Basic on these. Took us months to do and then we added and...
There are many 11ty resources available but the one that I started with to get me going is Kevin Powell's Turn static HTML/CSS into a blog with CMS using the JAMStack and I keep going back to it!
Minifying css for 11ty sites is quick and simple. Quick Tip #001—Inline minified CSS Using the CleanCSS plugin and moving the css file to _includes and then pulling the code into one line in the base.njk head.
This website has been rebuilt many times since it was first put together in 1995 and it will probably go through more iterations in the future. Part of my enjoyment of the web is creating and optimising websites and I am always keen to...