The problem with describing classic works of philosophy as "challenging" is it doesn't capture the distinction between those that are legitimately arcane, and those that are talking about something a middle schooler could grasp but keep circling the point like the author's getting paid by the word.

whenever I mention Google's 'twiddlers' I start doubting myself and think it might be 'fiddlers' and eventually talk myself back out of it because that would sound much worse.

In 2022 my blog had a noindex page which linked to a URL containing today's date in a ? These destinations were getting requested and indexed > 6 months later. Used for discovery: ✅ Used for PageRank: idk, I'm not a wizard. Didn't publish because I migrated my blog forgetting any running tests 😢

For some reason when people say 'potential audience' or 'ideal customer' I'm fine, but as soon as they say 'persona' I think they are being too cowardly to admit they enjoy astrology. 1. I am being unfair. but also 2. I have never seen personas applied in a way that didn't leave me more confused.

Some Kind Of Monster is one of my favourite documentaries www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... I enjoyed the book about the making of as well - iirc they were originally making a short promotional fluff piece but things kept getting worse.

I hope I remember this when it would next be useful. chrisleverseo.com/blog/how-to-... from @chrislever.bsky.social

I wandered along to both the 'Unite the Kingdom' and 'Stop Trump' rallies in London over thr last week. Here are some photos from each...

Bots everywhere -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Google Removed the &num=100 earlier this week. I collated insight from several sources to get a balanced overview.

TIL that LinkedIn will start using our personal data and content to train their AI models. This setting is set to “on” by default, unless you opt out. ➜ You can turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... Or go to Profile > Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

Silksong's bosses gate the content until I am calm. A bouncer who takes my ID and then does tricks with it and flicks me in the forehead before making me walk around the block to try and convince them that I am, in fact, in full control of my emotions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintend... I did not know Nintendo used to sell ROMs in stores so early (but I did know about the weird satellite thing - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satella...)

Dreamt I found a GBA cartridge for FIRE EMBLEM: BAND OF THE HAWK (this does not exist). Apparently there does exist a romhack (I'm not sure I want this).

People on LinkedIn vs Same people in person at conference 😆

The charity which advocates for and supports people with the condition(s) in the UK have had their offices burned down. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-app... www.facebook.com/NiemannPickUK

checking to see if I've deindexed the site (again) and seeing ads on the term (nice)

no talking until I've had my

trying to write at the moment and the problem with that is I think when I write and I end up coming up with ideas.36+++++++++++++++++++++++++my cat doesn't need to try to write he just writes. He can't even read.3333333333

I wonder if the response rate is lower for Unknown, or about the same as everything else

deadlift world record (nude)

when the test environment doesn't share any data with the production environment and comes with a big list of features which would deindex the site if they were pushed live, but don't worry they're isolated, please ignore for now, also the ticket you are testing will only fully work on prod we think

[needing this more than anything I have ever asked a person] no worries if not!

I can't really use LLMs to help me write because I know I am a lazy piece of shit and will go "yeah that's close enough" when attempting to edit the first pass and convince myself it's remotely similar to how I'd have written it.

I have verified my age on here using a truthful and legitimate approach.

Thank you YouTube Algo and The Grammy's channel (?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8te... Such a skilled vocalist (she sounds super in control with any distortion and hope she starts putting gutterals into her music to confuse people)

A few weeks ago I mentioned something offhand like: "...or we could look at reimplementing this in {industry standard, sensible, default way that actually works}, but I'm sure there were good reasons it was set up this way" but there weren't any good reasons, and they came back having fixed it (!)

this song is my go-to for warming up at karaoke www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXp...

These feel accurate (when you delete "non-" & "avoid")

Irony and/or detachment are insufficient to protect you from repeated LinkedIn exposure. You are not different. You will succumb.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0OB... "The piano [...] was an already broken piano that we intercepted on its way to the waste reception center and that was unfixable. We had neither the budget nor the heart to break a working piano. We gave it one very last moment to shine." see 1812 Overture w/cannon

Seeing Random Tweets from X, the everything app in Google discover now. No thanks. Bizarre choice. Might as well show us Etsy listings and neopets profile pages. Could also dredge up some ultra rate Reddit comments or Pinterest boards while they're at it.

First, we need to enact the big ideas from the big, serious thinkers to supply enough power to make these machine minds suffer on an adequate scale.

bass practice stream maybe for 1 hr twitch.tv/ohgm

granting access to documentation and then getting sent a fix which does not work because you can see they have not looked at the documentation they requested access to so you get to paste part of it into an "as per" email and then the issue gets fixed and the client gets billed slightly more 🌈

Royal Mail and Parcelforce have recently merged so you can now take your Parcelforce parcel to any of the convenient drop off points their website directs you to, where it will fail to scan.

"im a big reader" "oh word what do you read" "uh the shadow's blood trilogy, the ravenblood chronicles, city of blood and bone, boneblood raven chronicler of the city"

Genuinely very happy for this team. Sounds like they managed to avoid a lot of traps.

We can expect the first year long video essay about Signalis in 2034.

"in Chinese culture handing reporters cash hidden inside an empty potato chip bag is a traditional gesture of friendship"

I think this "Products" result type with the categories looks slick and would be very desirable if it took you through to those category pages. (right now they go to KW + Brand SERPs so they can serve you one final ad)

with site:https://grok.com/share/ + {keyword} you can see how the sausage (high quality affiliate content) is made

Required vs Optional styling in Index vs Live test for URL Inspection (maybe something else going on)

Tried low fat, it's just as questionable but had slightly more protein.

"How is it possible for CrUX to say 90% of page loads are good, and Google Search Console to say only 50% of URLs are good. Which is right?" It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures... 1/5 🧵

Casio guitar (1987) as a midi controller for my friend's microkorg (~2004)

if you pour a bunch of cottage cheese into kool-aid man it won't kill him but it will slow him down

many users died to bring us these ux insights

I forgot about this for a while but the Bryce Elder "Sam Altman's kitchen" piece may be one of my favourite things I've read in business or tech history. www.ft.com/content/b180...

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