Bubbles Briefing

Unintentional pun, but it's also an honest truth in that my thoughts around wanting to create art have gone.

A couple months ago, we sat down on a weekend and decided to binge re-watch the whole debut season of Murderbot and it was really enjoyable. But…

In February 1264, after the Mise of Amiens, the fighting between the forces of Simon de Montfort and King Henry III began in earnest. Simon's sons Henry and…

I read a company-wide announcement yesterday congratulating us on delivering something hard we’ve been working on for months. As I was reading it, I started…

William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Morning Journal in 1895 - and immediately started running stories designed to make his readers furious before…

There was once a potato who could not go without eating chips. ‘Oh, what does that make me, Mother? A monster’? He trembled at the truth of it. ‘Who knows’,…

It’s that time of year again, temperatures rise, flowers bloom, and butterflies take wing. Their erratic flutters catch the eye and we watch, trying to predict…

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L. P. Hartley’s quote has a life completely beyond its origin in the book The Go-Between. I…

[🥸] To bypass online age checks, kids in the UK have apparently turned to makeup: Parents also said they had caught their children drawing on facial hair in a…

This past week involved a good bit of travel and this meant that I had some time to read in flights and in airports. I spent a good bit of that times with…

Deleted the YouTube application off of my phone. Thinking of going back to school next spring. Finally made a savings account. Changed my loan repayment plan.…

I've always been a bit of a hater. Chaitanya's Moving on from being a Hater post makes some good points about this frame of mind. Being a hater can create a…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have released a proposed law (PDF) that they are calling the Mass Deportation (Detention) Bill. ...

I’ve spotted this in a couple of places over the last few weeks and find it an interesting approach. You post a bit of JSON script on your site, and then…

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web…

Some years ago I learned about security.txt, a proposed document that could be added to a website to let security researchers know who to contact in the event…

This past month, I did not buy anything from Amazon or Ebay... and I saved some money doing it. Fortunately, I have a good salary, but I still do not want to…

I've always been quite minimalist regarding blogging. I'm not a part of any webring, I don't have any newsletter, no comments or such. Not that I am…

As I continue to get off Apple's ecosystem from removing my data off iCloud and moving to Linux, today was a big day, I sold my Apple hardware. Apple is not…

There’s been talk going around about a new protocol, humans.json - not to be confused with humans.txt, of course. The purpose of this protocol, as I understand…

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