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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 06/10/2026

I'm using Sloop now, which I think is the 4th CFW I've seen

Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Oh what's that? You're a successful entrepreneur who sold their first business at 21? You drive a Porsche and want for nothing? That's cool and all but I spent the day watching nu-metal concerts on a 14" CRT, so I think we know who the real rich man is

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 07/09/2026

What a great way to spend a Monday evening

I knackered old GBA SP. The paint is worn and it's dirty and tired looking.

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/07/2026

ALERT ALERT: Coffeepot, my dirt cheap Tiny SEO Monitor has had a HUGE update - internal link checking, domain expiry alerts and more! Head to coffeepot.app to check it out

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/06/2026

More and more sites are serving AI markdown while asking you to bat away signup modals, load MBs of JS and X away ads But if they're serving markdown... Why not read that instead? If you're giving bots VIP access to your content, I'm going to pretend to be one. chris-spann.co.uk/impersonatin...

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Hey! Doing a mad deal on the SEO Monitoring tool I released the other day - sign up now and get ten quid off the big boy package forever. - Monitor 50 URLs a day - Notifications if they break - Retain html for 180 days. For NINETEEN BRITISH POUNDS A MONTH Go to coffeepot.app and click "Get Venti"

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 18/06/2026

Hey check it out! Come along if you're in the northwest!

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 16/06/2026

SEO freelancer, or a tiny SEO team? Tired of finding out too late that a change no indexed your big product pages Meet Coffeepot: a tiny SEO monitoring tool that checks your URLs daily & alerts you to problems. JS rendering, 90-day HTML history, dirt cheap. Good stuff. coffeepot.app

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 15/06/2026

So what are we doing here guys

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 13/05/2026

Didn't click the link in the post above? Here's what you're missing out on:

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 17/04/2026

Wait a minute @tcgs.co live show in Shanghai???

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 10/03/2026

Me when my wife comes out the door to help get the big shop and the kids into the house

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 05/02/2026

Facial recognition misidentified a non-white person!? Again!??!?

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 27/01/2026

OUT NOW: This Station is Non-Operational Issue 1: Clean Web Layers, Crow Compression and Calm Web Readers shorturl.at/6sqJF A newsletter about living and working in the tech world in 2026. Check it out here or visit buttondown.com/thisstationi... it would mean a lot if you checked it out!

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 07/01/2026

Gemini pro. My wife isn't here so I don't know if it's right or not

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 14/12/2025

PoV: my dad has just phoned and is using the death of my friend's mum as a springboard for his weird vaguely anti-doctor rhetoric

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 04/12/2025

My dad is so riddled with untreated ADHD (that I don't think he believes in) that he's recently been forced to sell his house and he now lives in a caravan at 74, but you go off Wes

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 03/12/2025

The great thing about winter running is the going out dressed like a little ray of sunshine

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 29/11/2025

Tried to take a nice picture of me and the dog

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 27/11/2025

Tell me you have two kids and an office job without etc etc

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 05/11/2025

It's bonfire night so this brave boy has got his special hat of fortitude on

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 01/11/2025

This is incredibly boring, but this slightly incongruous wall has been down the road from me my whole life; about 6mo ago I found out it used to be part of a railway bridge and now I can't believe I never clocked it

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 31/10/2025

I run past this building all the time and I am pretty sure the gate only unlocks if you have three chess piece shaped keys

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 30/10/2025

I absolutely guarantee you there's 34 septims and a levelled sword in there

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 25/10/2025

Great news for Phishers everywhere

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 24/10/2025

Tiny, stupid hill I am prepared to die on: we need a new term other than hallucination to describe when an LLM is just factually incorrect

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 23/10/2025

If you want one of these stupid stickers come find the stupid guy with this stupid badge #brightonseo

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 13/10/2025

Re-up for the evening crowd: uncovered some weird grok behaviour, found some weird keywords, none of it makes sense. chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 13/10/2025

Wrote up a little unsolved mystery I found in a few client GSCs; accidentally discovered that Grok will Google stuff then lie to you about it: chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 01/10/2025

Maybe this is purely down to me being an unrepentant Brave user, but the sheer size of these sponsored results has absolutely bent my head. Look at it!

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 25/09/2025

Absolutely reckless behaviour

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 13/09/2025

Tatton Park Run with the TCGS crew for a good cause. Cheeky post-second-child 5k PB, and a lovely day and place to do it, even if I did have to dodge a trip of rutting deer

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 11/09/2025

It's *slightly* cooler than it has been this morning so you know what that means That's right, it's big pink fleece time

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