Seth From Philly!

Openverse is so good! So is the WordPress Photo Directory too!

Agreed. I can't get over how many actual journalists are using Substack instead of less Nazi-fied platforms. Like... cough... cough... Ghost or even Behiiv

Google Says That More Quality Clicks Are Coming From AI Overviews To Sites Source: https://blog.google/products/search/ai-search-driving-more-queries-higher-quality-clicks Sure, Google. Of course they’re going to say this. Do I click on the source links? More than average people, but I’m not sure average person would. Do I think that if you want to read more you might click the citations? Sure. But, often if your question is answered in the summary,

Google refutes reports that less people are clicking on sites from search now that AI overviews are a thing.

The Thing About Sydney Sweeney & American Eagle The thing about the Sydney Sweeney Jeans advert did exactly what American Eagle wanted. A response.

The Thing About Sydney Sweeney & American Eagle
The thing about the Sydney Sweeney Jeans advert did exactly what American Eagle wanted. A response.

Such a beautiful campus.

Delaware Valley University in New Britian/Doylestown Pennsylvania.

My 12 year old is taking a magic class there for camp this week.

Micro.blog - @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

#Fedicon 2025 Videos -- This one is Evan Prodromou's Keynote: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/05/fedicon-videos-this-one-is/

A must watch!

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Way to go! I knew you when!

Ghost 6.0 has arrived! An enormous amount of work went into delivering our biggest upgrade yet:

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Convert Images Effortlessly with WebP Converter Tool Transform JPG, PNG, and GIF files into WebP images easily in WordPress.

Vibe coded a nifty little WordPress plugin! Claude Opus FTW: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/04/vibe-coded-a-nifty-little/

Seth dressed in bright orange shirt, pink shutter glasses and a Devo band hat

80s Themed Birthday Party Was A Success: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/04/s-themed-birthday-party-was/

Just looks cleaner without extensions imho

Google Says URL Extensions Still Don't Matter (HTM vs HTML) Google's John Mueller several years after posting a video named "Will removing “.html” from my URLs help my site?" still says URL extensions do not matter for SEO. He said it doesn't matter if you go with a .htm or a .html or go with no extension at

Google Still Says URL Extensions Still Don't Matter - via @seroundtable.bsky.social & @rustybrick.com #seo

Totally agree with you!

Was subscribed to a newsletter. Just got alerted that it had migrated from Ghost *TO* Substack!

Hard nope to that and a quick unsubscribe.

If you're not going to be bothered by the Nazi amplification then I'm not going to be bothered by what you have to say.

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Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreak A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.

⛔ Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order • TorrentFreak

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AI promised to make us more efficient. Instead, it’s making us work harder.

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Porch goose

80's Themed Murder Mystery Activity For Mother-in-Law's 70th: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/03/s-themed-murder-mystery-activity/

I have this about college a lot. Granted I'm older than you and college was 25 yrs ago. 😉🙄

I Remember The Days Of AOL: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/02/i-remember-the-days-of/

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NationSquid YouTube Channel Is Superb: https://phillycodehound.com/2025/08/02/nationsquid-youtube-channel-is-superb/

This is brave reporting—and it smartly took advantage of bread crumbs to identify the person.

The fact that he was selling merch was his undoing.

They're bringing tuberculosis back into fashion to look just like the grand America they're nostalgic for.

I got a bit concerningly obsessed with birds for a few months. Follow Sarah and The Mouth! https://linktr.ee/inkydragon Older bat vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eqkaHkTAI 💗 Support this… I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

The title of this video is `I saved a PNG to a bird` and I think it's technically true www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Interesting.

Bwhahaha!