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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've seen Google's AI mode just fall apart like this a bunch of times in the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it starts adding 2-3 commas all over the place. Has it always been like that? I just noticed it recently.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I had no idea dial-up was still available! We didn't have a computer until we got a hand-me-down from a family member. I had tons of those AOL CDs saved up, waiting for the day I could use one. I still remember how exciting it was doing the trial. It also meant no more library to get online!

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The poll on Bing Rewards today. I'm surprised at how high the number is for people who still have CD/DVD drives. I haven't actively used a computer with a CD/DVD drive in probably a decade (though I still have some of my really old computers that do).

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I'm sitting in jury duty and they're going through the presentation and it said we are not allowed to post on social media, such as on "myspace..."

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Two words I can never spell right: grafitti and buritto

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I just realized, nobody talks about the Apple Vision Pro anymore. I wonder how sales are going.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This looks like a screengrab from a horror movie

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I'm doing a content audit on one my own sites (a site that I've clearly neglected based on the date of the article in this image) and I saw this post where I mentioned my "girlfriend." We've been married for so long that it's just weird to see. It's a little hard to delete old posts like this!

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

For the last few days, I've been working on a written review of the 1986 NES classic, Metroid. I've put too much work into the article already but I just can't help myself! I'll do some photo editing tonight and hopefully I'm done. Then I might do a video review...

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Huh... good point. I guess I'll be eating a sandwich and chips for breakfast around 1pm today.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I don't know if this is widespread or just in the bio-tech space (where I've spent a lot of my time in the last year), but Google seems to ignore canonicals a lot. I know canonicals are only a "hint" and not a directive, but Google seems to care very little about canonical tags in this space.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Setting up Recaptcha with Google sure is a pain since you have to connect it to a Google Cloud account. On the plus side, I also got a site set up to send GSC data to BigQuery, which I've been meaning to do.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My old boss used to say "we don't HAVE to work with our clients, we GET to." As an employee, it didn't resonate. But I think of it all the time as a dad. My daughter often asks me to scratch her back before bed. I don't always feel like it, but I'm grateful I get to. And I know I'll miss it one day.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Found at Goodwill for $2! I can't wait to read it in a couple of years when I get through all of the other books I buy. I've seen the author on TedTalk and she was really good so I might move this up in my list.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I like to collect video games, but I wonder what's going to happen in 20 years with the games of today that require day-one patches to be playable (like Cyberpunk 2077). Will the patches still be available? It'll be annoying trying to connect to the internet, too. The Xbox 360 is already pretty bad.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I'm writing reviews of the anime, Solo Leveling. What an amazing series! It's about a guy who is given the ability to level up as he fights, like a video game. It's a lot of fun. But I've typed too much tonight. When I'm constantly getting typos and hitting the delete key, I know it's time for bed.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Here's a free, Open-Source A/B testing tool from my friend Devon at ConversionTeam. For more than a decade, Devon ran the CRO tests for my SEO clients. He's a pro. I haven't tried this tool yet, but I bet it's amazing! www.conversionteam.com/nantu/docs/i...

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ahrefs shows that a new keyword came up for one of my old game reviews from 2013. This site was destroyed in a hack years ago. I fixed the site but lost the images and didn't have backups. But I found the images on Archive.org! Wow, I forgot how much I liked RE6 www.getmogames.com/resident-evi...

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My daughter is really into rollerskating, but I rarely skate anymore because I've become afraid of getting hurt. I think as I've become more of a spectator over the years, I've seen too many injuries and it's gotten to me. But I don't want to be afraid! So I went out there today and it felt great .

Lower legs of someone wearing black roller skates with orange laces and wheels.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My wife got me this amazing book for Christmas! I saw it at Barnes & Noble a couple of months ago and thought it was such a cool idea and she remembered. I can't wait to work through it!

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Not everything can be insane... can it?

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I have a feeling that AI is going to be the death of the Amazon Vine program. People in the Vine program are leaving reviews that are so unhelpful. Sure, they sound well-written, but they're practically fake. And they sound like marketing copy. Check this one out.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm excited to be starting these two books. One for learning and one for relaxing.

Two books on a table - Leading with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Akira Himekawa

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm trying to understand Nathan Barry's "flywheel" method. I get that it's about building a process that feeds into itself and becomes better with each cycle. But what's special about that? I've seen examples and it's not clicking for me. It sounds like any process - test, improve, repeat, right?

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Two services that I hope have Black Friday sales - Descript and OpusClip. 🤞

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I just finished this book about scaling in ResearchOps. It's not about marketing, but I wanted to learn something new. There are actually a lot of similarities between ResearchOps and marketing, and also leadership, building processes, and growing a business. It was a great read.

Cover of the book "Research That Scales" from Kate Towsey

The table of contents from Kate Towsey's book, "Research That Scales"

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Well, I bought a PS5 for Black Friday! And Silent Hill 2 to go with it. 😬 I don't know if I'm ready for the heart pounding anxiety and jump scares.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bummer. Looks like the November core algo update has taken back some of the recovery I made from the August core update.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I love the name of this recipe blog

Recipe blog called Spaceships & Laser Beams

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm debating getting a PS5 during the Black Friday sale. I wanna play Silent Hill 2, Spider Man, and Stellar Blade. But are there enough exclusives to make it worth it?

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Watching an Online Courses Q&A with Ashley Gore at SPI. Always great stuff from SPI

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How many people are going to lose their jobs at Forbes, CNN, and WSJ after Google's manual action today?

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I played around with this beauty today. It's the Comica VM40 shotgun mic. The audio it captures is awesome. It has 32gb of storage for on-board recording too. How awesome is that!? I love this mic.

Comica VM40 shotgun mic, shock mount, boom adaptor, and wireless receiver

Gain dial and buttons on the Comica VM40 shotgun mic

Capsule end of the Comica VM40 shotgun mic

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The mass exodus from X is funny! I haven't really used Twitter in years, but it's still useful for real-time news. Like last night during the Tyson fight, I didn't know if my internet was messed up or if it was Netflix. Turns out it was Netflix. I hope BlueSky can become that replacement.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

This was such a great interview with Virginia Kerr on the Social Media Examiner podcast. She's a former TV news anchor, now a content creator who teaches video strategy. The podcast was packed full of great info about storytelling, being authentic, and being in front of the camera.

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

There are so many Google updates now that they're not even news anymore. I'm just going to always assume we're always in an update

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Alex Juel @alexjuel.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The most important sound clips in my life, minus The Price is Right losing horn (which I have in a different folder) Here they are: - Metal Gear Solid Alert - Sad Trombone - Crickets - Ba dum tss - Big toot

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