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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 24/10/2024

Apparently there is Babybel raclette -- I think I need to stop researching now. (Pro tip: don't eat the underwear)

An ad (I think) for Babybel raclette cheese, with 2 cheeses having fun while a third is melted. And cheese underwear for no apparent reason.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 26/09/2024

Someone turned up the flouride in the water this week.

Screenshot from Dr Strangelove, with the text "that's why I only drink rain water" (alluding to flouride making people communist)

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 11/09/2024

Alf photos are back on the table, I see. This is great. More Alf, please.

Alf, the illegal alien, having a friendly chat with the First Lady of the US.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 03/05/2024

Who remembers Windows 95? How has it been 10 years already ... Anyway! Here's *Windows95Man* from Finnland, with the banger "No rules" for this year's Eurovision contest. Who needs rules when you can have Windows 95? I get it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1N...

Windows 95 Man is emerging out of a giant egg, wearing a Microsoft cap & t-shirt. The world is not weird enough.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 28/04/2024

One of the big Swiss retailers seems to have started using AI-generated images in ads. Caption "Make it" -- shouldn't it be "Fake it"? Anyway.

Likely AI-generated image from a Swiss Migros ad. Man with funky fingers, arms stretched out. Countless bird-houses in physically impossible configurations. A lot of birds in the sky, some look like petrodactyls.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 25/04/2024

The most threatening sign I've seen in a restroom.

A sign showing a toilet line graphic with the text "keep it clean like browser history"

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 27/03/2024

The drone-photos from North Korea are pretty fascinating. TLDR: Back in 2020's pandemic, someone flew a DJI drone from China into North Korea over a city, and just published some of the photos / videos on Reddit. new.reddit.com/user/XiaoHao2/ new.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...

A drone photo of a road crossing, a handful of cars, old'ish buildings

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 04/03/2024

Follow me, if you want to die.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, in some movie scene, where he says "live" instead of "die", but anyway, it's a meme, ok?

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 09/12/2023

Search your @ on Google and click on the image tab and share a screenshot. Mmmh, tasty.

Whole bunch of photos of toast. Some cheese, some avocado.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 06/12/2023

Someone ( twitter.com/LewisMenelaw... ) posted this on Twitter as a parody of the "login-with" excess that's sometimes out there.

a login-dialog with 16 different providers listed, half of them don't make sense - like being able to log in with your Olive Garden account.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 29/11/2023

This seems appropriate to share on Bluesky - if I had known... and with hashtags because I'm non-conforming. #spotify #wrapped

Spotify wrapped summary of the music I listened to in 2023 so far, showing a total of 69410 minutes listened.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 25/09/2023

So close. It's probably a nice house, but this ... oh my. www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

A house door, with an arched window above it. The roof is right above the arched window, and the edge of the roof is almost, but not quite, aligned with the top of the arch. Offset by maybe 10-20 cm? If you don't see the image, I hope this alt text was useful, and be glad that you don't see the image. Does anyone read this though?

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 11/09/2023

The Big Mac index has made way for the Monthly Cheese Index. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Screenshot of a Reddit comment thread, starting with "$1200 for my iPhone thats still running fine after 5 years. Thats $20 a month. I spend more than that every month on cheese."

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 10/08/2023

I wouldn't expect (not having looked at all, lol) a change in URL or site impressions. Maybe in clicks, but even that, would they go up or down?

Martin, with fancy purple/blue hair, telling John "it depends".

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 03/08/2023

Your newsletter is the bees' knees.

A bunch of bees, showing off their cute little knees. On a tablet. WTF, Midjourney, WTF.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 26/07/2023

'Every 404 error is just a 301 redirect waiting to happen.' -- nice one.

John asking Chatgpt: give me some insightful, SEO-related inspirational quotes from Barry Schwartz. Use gen-z slang, make it click-baity, and include hashtags.

ChatGPT:
"On the hunt for SERPs, be the SERP! In SEO, it's always about outplaying yourself, not just the algorithm. #RedefineTheGame #SERPGoals #SchwartzSpeaks"

"Yo, don't be a poser! SEO isn't about fitting in; it's about standing out and speaking the language of the algorithm. #AuthenticityWins #SEORealness #BarryBits"

"Fam, keep in mind: SEO isn't a one-time fling; it's a long-term relationship with Google. #PatienceIsKey #MarriedToSEO #SchwartzWisdom"

(and more)

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 26/07/2023

In today's episode of "Life at Google", Gary came over and asked "do you remember what Eric Schmidt used to say?" ... ... and I haven't been able to stop asking Bard/ChatGPT for Eric-quotes since then. Either Eric said a lot of things, or these two are very creative. Hmm.

Culminating in "Do what you love, and the rest will come." - probably the most fitting for BlueSky.

The rest:
Sure, here are some additional quotes associated with Eric Schmidt:

"Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems."

"Innovation never stops, and you always have to be ready for what's coming next."

"Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."

"The ability to work hard and make unique contributions is at the heart of America’s strength."

"If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative."

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."

"There is a tremendous opportunity for a new form of identity, which is not your real identity."

"We need to act now to avoid the surveillance state."

"Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries gr...

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 23/07/2023

What's a potato? (scene from a bike-ride today -- a domain name for the German word for potato in the middle of a field -- so random, yet, so ... potato)

Bigass field with the word "kartoffel.ch" in big white letters randomly in the middle.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 11/07/2023

Look, we saw a a clear uplift.

Graphic from Search Console, showing an implementation with an extrapolation based on a few datapoints. Don't do this. Really

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 09/07/2023

Good weekend so far. Reprogrammed half the devices at home yesterday (smart homes are supposed to save time, I think, but sometimes you just want to do something), and went for a long bike ride through the mountains this morning. So far, so good. How about you?

Bike ride coming down from a slight hill, next to a small lake. Blue sky, blurry road (camera settings), another bike rider on the road somewhat in the distance.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 07/07/2023

Everyone's talking about Threads and I'm just sitting here, sad that Currents / Google+ went away yesterday. support.google.com/a/answer/13137538

The Spiderman "just sitting here working" meme. There's no text. I know, he's not "working working", but that makes it even more fitting for here.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 03/07/2023

2015 I sent out an internal newsletter, showing how WordPress was set to take over interest in HTML. "The web is turning into a CMS, and HTML is becoming irrelevant!" It turns out, HTML can hold its own, and Wordpress has stagnated.

Google Trends showing HTML vs Wordpress in 2015 -- with wordpress basically catching up

html vs wordpress in 2023 -- WP isn't catching up.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 28/06/2023

The markup on this garlic bread is way too much. (found on www.reddit.com/r/garlicoin/comments… )

A bunch of HTML tags & attributes on a garlic bread label.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 22/06/2023

The national yodeling festival was in a nearby town on the weekend. I tried to get some videos of me yodeling, but unfortunately/luckily Bluesky doesn't support videos. Here's a snapshot of some alphorns from there instead.

A bunch of folks playing alphorns in Switzerland. We don't do this every day, I'm sorry. I really like alphorns.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 17/06/2023

I have no idea what Album Archive is either, but apparently it has old images from chat/hangouts/talk/gwhatever. Here's a few years back when my son visited me in the office. The cardboard horse is called "user-agent". There's spock. And a diving gas tank. And someone's pre-covid mask. o_O

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 16/06/2023

I put a wifi switch on my espresso machine, and made myself a wifi button to turn it on while I'm doomscrolling on my phone in the bed in the morning. (The wifi switch also measures power usage, and it totally surprised me how much power the machine pulls, so now I don't keep it running all day :))

Small 3d-printed wifi button device with a coffee cup embossed on the top, sitting on top of a keyboard. No banana for scale.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 15/06/2023

Bluesky on RTO - plus a few non-conforming cows (the best kind).

lightly curvy road, next to a field with a bunch of spotted cows; covered by a blue sky with spotty clouds.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 12/06/2023

Watching Reddit poke itself in the wheel is kinda sad, but realistically, it'll have a relatively small effect on the user numbers in the short term. It will push a bit more for other platforms though, like Twitter did, creating more incompatible diversification. Maybe that's ok for the web.

The meme with a person riding a bike and poking a stick in their front wheel.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 07/06/2023

Thank you for fixing the front door, @pfrazee.com :)

A blurry home icon with an open front door

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 31/05/2023

Yes! We put the machine into overdrive, now you can queue up the monthly reports for tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

Our doggies are busy at work -- at a laptop

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 30/05/2023

Swiss people really like their trains. And now, you can like them too -- mostly live even -- just hop over to ... OnlyTrains : trains.jo-m.ch/#/trains/list?tiles=…

Screenshot of the OnlyTrains tile-view, showing a bunch of Swiss trains passing by.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 25/05/2023

You don't have to show cookie consent banners, if you don't collect cookies.

The guy who looks like Eddie Murphy but isn't, with his finger tapping on his forehead. Imagine it as a GIF.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 25/05/2023

Suddenly those offers of oil tankers & cargo ships that I used to get as email spam are sounding interesting. Imagine if *my* ship were stuck in a canal, how cool would that be. /desperately trying to avoid double entendres, but whatever, lol

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 23/05/2023

I think this could work, if it's from the POV of the computer. You staring into the screen, eyes wandering, confused face. Distressed face. and finally, aha! this is how we do it. Concentrated, working, jubilation.

Louis Gray and John Mueller, giving you "the look".

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 17/05/2023

URL shorteners, up and to the right!

Google Trends showing "url shorteners" with a slight edit

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 17/05/2023

Today's special offer from Switzerland: watching grass grow, 24/7 live-stream. "Scientists" say, part of the mountain is going to fall down and ruin the grass-growing, but so far it's been pretty calm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N80eDCnqaM Background: bit.ly/3o6irrQ

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 16/05/2023

Not quite what I was looking for, but I can see how you might have been confused.

A Google maps listing for Blue Sky Horse Feeds & Corn Supplies -- a company not very related to the bluesky feeds I was looking for. It's got corn though. A big lump with knobs. It has the juice (it has the juice). I can't imagine a more beautiful thing (woo). All of this could apply to Bluesky too.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 16/05/2023

I went through the cellar and found this. I was thinking of posting it on Mastodon, but didn't want to get banned.

Book cover of a book about computer algorithms

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 13/05/2023

What a week. Time to shake off the grumpiness, somehow. Have a good weekend! #ai

A grumpy cat working at a laptop, with a funky hat on. AI-generated by Midjourney.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 08/05/2023

Bluesky's What's Hot on ... a tiny ESP32 with a display, running off a powerbank. #weekendproject

ESP32 device running a Bluesky client with a powerbank in the back.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 07/05/2023

Normal hands for the hot-stream, got it.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 05/05/2023

Site-migrations -- what to watch out for when it comes to SEO? 1. Use 301 server-side redirects 2. Don't mess up 4. Be consistent and watch the details. 5. Update all links 6. How do you SEO an invite-only beta? 7. Disregard this post, sorry.

I asked CHatGPT about site migrations, here's what it said... Site migrations are like hair transplants for websites: sometimes they look great, but other times, you're left wondering if it was worth the pain.

Site migrations: the SEO equivalent of a blindfolded game of musical chairs, where nobody knows which seat they'll end up in.

Migrating a site for SEO is like trying to herd cats through a maze of broken glass: chaotic, painful, and often leaving you questioning your life choices.

Site migrations are like a game of Jenga: one wrong move and your SEO ranking comes crashing down.

SEO site migrations are like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube in the dark. You're pretty sure you've made progress, but in the end, you're just left with a mess of colors.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but with a site migration, you might destroy it faster than that.

When it comes to site migrations, there are two types of people: those who've had their rankings tank, and those who haven't migra

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 03/05/2023

Help me, Bluesky! I have 1000's of music CDs in the cellar (CDs were used to distribute music and invite-codes for internet services). What should I do with them? (they're all ripped to files, but music services nowadays don't like local files)

Even Midjourney has trouble understanding what CDs are nowadays. Rest assured, the CDs and the question are real.

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Cheese Toast @delicioustoast.com · 03/05/2023

Mods are asleep, posting falcons.

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