Bubbles Briefing

Massey College, at the University of Toronto, is an important example of Canadian efforts to emulate the ‘OxBridge’ educational and college system at Oxford…

AllSides puts three opinion pieces side by side: one from the right, one from the left, and one they call center. All three are about whether hooking up is bad…

I’ve had many memorable conversations in pubs, and about pubs, and one particular such exchange from a few years back still stands out. I’d been arguing the…

The long road to EPUB support

So today marks the 4th anniversary of us moving to our 2.5 acre smallholding in north Wales. I can't believe it's been 4 years already - it feels like 5…

This summer has been brutal, amongst others, I grow a fair number of cloud forest orchid species in a grow tent in my garage. This summer got hot in May and…

This morning after the usual reflection and waffling I found myself heading out. Away from the house. The two puppies of chaos love to see me and hate me to…

on the price that I'm willing to pay

Take a few minutes to watch the video above or, if you’re more of a written word person, keep reading. It’s not uncommon for me to come home from a trip with…

Data centres pose an existential risk to our fragile water systems in Australia.

[In Europe, anyway, where regulators do this funny thing called “regulating”.] I’ve previously noted that Tesla’s claimed “Full Self-Driving” isn’t, and that…

Above you see the nice li’l machine that has a nice SAS card that I’m using for my /dvd RAID (that, confusingly enough, has more ripped blurays than ripped…

I just found out about Ember, a really nice theme for NetNewsWire that works for both mobile and Mac. An article from Unsung as rendered by Ember

Notes on capping CPU frequency for daily use. A decade habit of running laptops at 500 MHz, why it started, and what it actually feels like day to day.

Charlotte Tobitt, writing for Press Gazette, about subscription plans Meta introduced last month, that effectively monetise the posting of links from some…

Today I learned more about fonts and found one great one to replace my current setup and pair with my colour palette. Maple Mono is an excellent monospace font…

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to prevent user generated content (UGC) from maliciously triggering HTMX 4 and Alpine.js behaviors in his ColdFusion output....

There’s a new thing going around in the blogosphere1: human.json. The idea is quite charming: set up such a file to declare that you are human who doesn’t use…

Have you ever asked yourself why cats, and black cats especially, seem prone to keeping witches as companions? It's a fascinating question, and it turns out…