Web & Tech - MXGNS

Note posted 16 August 2026

I thought I was nostalgic for ZX81 graphics but looking into it, they were even more simplistic than I remembered. This may not have been when computers peaked, after all.

Note posted 15 August 2026

I’ve been finding Grammarly extremely useful for keeping an eye on my grammar when I write. However, once my half-price offer ended, it’s just way too expensive for what it is.

For that reason, I’m now trying LanguageTool instead. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Note posted 28 July 2026

One sad thing about the state of the internet in 2026 is how SEO means that it’s genuinely rare to find anything useful on the first page of search results when googling a problem 🤬

If anyone launches a search engine that punishes so-called good SEO practices, I’ll be the first in line to sign up for the waiting list!

Note posted 7 July 2026

Notion — The AI workspace that works for you

Miro — AI Innovation Workspace

Slack — AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

Why does it feel as if every single company has lost track of why we use their products in the first place?

🤮

Note posted 7 July 2026

My biggest frustration with how AI is eating the world is perhaps the hijacking of the sparkle emoji.

✨ used to mean a bit of sparkle. Now it means literally the opposite.

Switching to DuckDuckGo

Encouraged by a colleague, I’ve switched to using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine instead of Google.

It’s not even about privacy for me, and only a little about avoiding the ads. Instead, it’s all about getting rid of the nonsense AI response at the top of the results.

There’s been this example floating around the web for months. If you ask Google if it will be 2027 next year, it confidently tells you:

It is 2026 right now, and will be 2028 next year, followed by 2027.

After several months of people posting screenshots and poking fun at it, Google’s AI is just getting more convinced, using those posts as a reference. Someone said so on the internet, so it must be true!

This is the most blatant example, but for most other things, the primary source seems to be either a random bloke on Reddit saying something or some page that, when you click through to it, says nothing about the topic at all.

So, no thank you. I’m quite happy getting real search results instead.

Note posted 8 June 2026

It’s amusing/annoying how the Apple devices at home respond whenever anyone says “Hey Siri” in the video stream during the WWDC keynote.

Aside from that, I’d say it was a bit of a yawn this year 😴