I like Budget day because the prediction-pundit-clickbait types get to switch from inventing scenarios and getting mad about them, to being shown to have been wrong and suffering zero consequences, to fuming about the actual Budget that has occurred (conveniently forgetting their fantasy version).

With its potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030, the metaverse is too big for companies to ignore.

This is old news about convenience store egg technology, but it was the most interesting thing I learned today (this says something about me), and I'm sharing in an attempt to remember the word "kimipuchi" in future. soranews24.com/2020/01/15/f...

every line in this six second clip of the case closed dub

Looks like clickbait but is just a regular ad for a shoegaze guitar www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWR...

"hey - here's that new blog post you asked for - oh."

do you think it's better to watch harrowing movies when you are already feeling bad? e.g. 'Come and See'

Landlords are the most crybaby (and baby-like) class of investor. "Can you explain what you mean by that?" No.

A high saturation thumbnail of a man, with completely white teeth and slightly larger than human eyes pointing at a computer while making a shh gesture. Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing. NEW POST ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c... NEW POST

A high saturation thumbnail of a man, with completely white teeth and slightly larger than human eyes pointing at a computer while making a shh gesture. Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing. NEW POST ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c... NEW POST

God I love this podcast - www.spreaker.com/podcast/bals...

By the comments this is a high effort shitpost www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQT... (she is collaborating with herself here)

There's a phenomena with generated content (text, audio, video) where I think the relief/euphoria some people feel once it produces something that looks right ("now I don't have to do this anymore!") clouds their assessment. "Is this good enough?" may be safer in the hands of someone uninvolved.

Want to read a story about solving a weird issue with embedded YouTube videos not showing in video search? Of course you do, you're only human. Luckily I've got one right here!! chris-spann.co.uk/what-happene...

Got bored and built a background removal tool that after removal adds a checkerboard background and saves it without transparency.

when a client gets an agency sales pitch and the critical priority tech SEO issues get forwarded on for me to comment on

the youtube vs yt-dlp arms race is hilarious, because of how lopsided it is. on the one hand, you've got a company with the GDP of Denmark who has about a manhattan-project's worth of developers they can assign to this. but on the other end, you've got every bored or annoyed javascript hacker.

I am editing a blog post and it just seems to be a list of gripes, apologies in advance (I am getting older, this is to be expected).

Ghost fishing but it's a VPS with GSA / Xrumer / SeNuke just running and running and running. Shitting all over the internet until the card expires.

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