Ramblings on Brody Stockel

So I moved to iPhone.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I remember pretty much my entire phone history.

Nokia 3310 I got from my parents when I was in year 6 or 7 because my dumb child brain wanted one.
I moved from QLD to NSW and my Dad said it was time to move onto his family post paid plan. So I got an Nokia N95 around late-2008. That thing was SICK.
2 years later (Ah the good old days of Telstra 24 month contracts with subsidised phones) I got an iPhone 4 with the contract renewal.
Early 2013 I got the iPhone 5 at the next renewal, but it took ages to arrive due to backorders. Very popular phone.
Around late 2014 / early 2015, I got an invite to buy a OnePlus One, the Android Flagship killer phone. Jumped onto that and left the iPhone ecosystem. Decided to go month-to-month with Telstra, didnt get a new phone when that came up for renewal.
Dropped the OnePlus One at a nightclub, smashed the screen. Borrowed a friends Nexus 5X in 2016.
Early 2017, The borrowed Nexus 5X finally died. Time to move off my dads family plan and onto my own since I was now A Big Boy and in the workforce. Got a Google Pixel XL.
Late 2018, Upgrade to a Pixel 3 XL.
October 2021, I break the mould and stop buying phones via Telstra contracts for good. I wander in JB Hi-Fi and buy a Pixel 6 over the counter. Woah.

That brings us to now, April 2026. My Pixel 6 is end of support in Q3 this year. No more security updates. Prices on these phones have gone up and up every year.

Twitter hates me it seems

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So I did a clean up of my twitter account, and well it got me banned.

I was following a bunch of random accounts over the last 13 years on the bird website, and I went on a spring cleaning session. Apparently that was a bad idea, because who would ever UNFOLLOW someone right?

So I guess thats the end of my time on the bird app. I might send an appeal, tbh I havnt decided if I care anymore.

AI Slop is ruining my life

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So AI is a thing nowadays. I both love and hate it.

I hate that my social media feeds are entirely just unmoderated AI slopware. Reddit voiceovers and completely made up courtroom videos.

I do like that Claude Code and others exist however. Being able to pump out an idea into a proof of concept quickly is really nice, however it’s not a be all, end all. I see plenty of pure AI vibe code applications being spun up with major security issues, breakages and reinventing every wheel, which is a product of people going full JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL and letting the AI going ham.

Making websites sucks

Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Websites are hard.

They make my brain hurt, I never know what needs to go where.

If I could have it my way, it would be a text/plain file served directly like that.