I’ve spent a lot of today on calls for work, but not actually achieved much at all, and it’s very frustrating…

So here’s something fun: I took the data I collected from my massive SIM mobile plans comparison table and pivoted the info to look at some different angles.

Factoring in current discounts, this is the average price per day across all plans, by provider.

I really like robot vacuums, but sometimes the mapping software makes me want to go on a rampage.

What do you mean I can’t split the room because it’s “too small”? That’s my ensuite, you bastard, and I want it separate so you don’t go mopping its floor before you clean the rest of my house.

I am 95% confident that my own personal hell would just be the devil forcing me to repack robot vacuum review units.

I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with AI-generated slop recently, but these images produced by the OPPO Reno12 for my review have just pushed me over the edge.

Why does this crap exist? Who wants it? I can’t understand why companies are pushing it.

Here’s the source image:

Does anybody understand Bing?

Since I’ve moved to Ghost, I get no traffic from Bing. Sitemaps are all setup in Webmaster tools and everything seems fine, except that I haven’t figured out a way to setup IndexNow on Ghost (Pro).

I know Bing is rubbish and small, but I would love to solve this.

Wow. This is an entirely unsurprising, yet still depressing read on Google and its search results.

Google is so, so broken.

I have hit the point that I need to start applying for “real” jobs, and for all the technology in the process, recruitment is so broken.

I just uploaded my CV, then had to spend 30 minutes retyping it into the “previous experience” section of a site’s recruitment page because it did such a bad job of automatically pulling out that information.

Like, can’t you just read my CV? Is that so hard, recruiters? Why make me waste my time on something so incredibly stupid.

I don’t like to spend a lot of time looking back wondering “what if?”, but in year 10 my career survey said I was best suited to be a Maths teacher and I often wonder if I didn’t fuck up my life by pursuing a career in the media instead.

I finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago and started creating video content for YouTube, TikTok and instagram. I don’t love it - I’m not very good I don’t think. But it’s not as terrible an experience as I thought it would be.

So it has been about a month since I began migrating BTTR from Wordpress to Ghost. I’m still fixing things and tidying up errors and SEO issues I keep finding from the migration. Despite the fact it’s still not performing as well as the old site before Google penalised it, I’m feeling pretty good … read more

With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of the Copyright Gods, as I don’t own the Copyright. But given the current owners are shuttering the publication I want to make sure this stuff isn’t lost … read more

With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of the Copyright Gods, as I don’t own the Copyright. But given the current owners are shuttering the publication I want to make sure this … read more

I wrote a thing on Linked about Pedestrian’s decision to shutter Gizmodo (and other titles). Because I don’t trust the algorithm, I’m going to post it here as well: Some memories fade with time. Others stand out, clear despite the intervening years. I remember my 28th birthday … read more

I just published my 100th product review on BTTR. Gonna have a little party on my own tonight to celebrate.

I have to admit that the inspiration for this post is anger. Pure unadulterated rage. As many would know, last year I launched my own product review site, bttr.com.au. I’ve been working hard at trying to make it great, I’ve experimented with some things (including AI content), and have … read more

Somebody in Canada has come to BTTR, viewed 24 pages and clicked on 88 different affiliate links in one session. Because they are Canadian, they aren’t going to convert. They have, however, stuffed up my performance metrics for the week.

I have so much work to do, but feel completely shattered today. Productivity is a struggle.

I deleted my Facebook account back in 2019 or so, and have not regretted the decision at all. The feed was always full of crap I didn’t care about, I never posted and any connection with my “friends” wasn’t actually meaningful. But, in order to try to push BTTR along, I set … read more

Went to set up a bunch of home security cameras for review and one of them requires professional installation. Not sure I’ll be getting that one done any time soon, unfortunately.