A Reddit post caught my eye this week that I think deserves a lot more attention than it’s probably getting. Someone has spent the last 18 months meticulously tracking Woolworths catalogue pricing data — actual receipts, actual numbers — and has now made it all publicly available in a Google Sheet. Given that the ACCC is currently sniffing around supermarket pricing practices, the timing couldn’t be more pointed.

My first reaction was honestly just admiration. Eighteen months. That’s not a weekend project. That’s a commitment. As someone who works in tech and has a reasonable appreciation for the unglamorous grind of data collection, I know how tedious this kind of thing gets. You start enthusiastic, then life happens, and somewhere around month four you’re questioning all your choices. This person kept going, and now we have something genuinely useful.

There’s a screenshot doing the rounds on social media lately — someone flexing a $500-a-day Claude API bill as proof that building your own SaaS with AI is smarter than paying $49 a month for an existing product. The original post frames it as some kind of revolutionary insight. “The End of Software,” they declared. I’ll admit, when I first saw it, my reaction was somewhere between genuine curiosity and mild secondhand embarrassment.

There’s a cartoon doing the rounds online that stopped me mid-scroll the other day. It depicts what looks like a military tank, but decked out with solar panels and wind turbines — a kind of renewable-powered war machine. The comment sections are predictably chaotic, with people arguing about whether it’s satire, a serious policy proposal, or just someone having a laugh. Honestly, the ambiguity is kind of the point, and it got me thinking harder than most actual political commentary does.