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I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs (Susam Pal)
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Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan's short and excellent post called I've banned query strings. Wisdom on the Web Chris is someone whose Internet comments I have been reading for about half a…

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. your social media habits sound like an abusive relationship (ava's blog)
    4

    The way some people feel like they need to act on big social media platforms is odd and as if they're traumatized.

Life

  1. think until you can think no more (tugba's blog)
    4

    i have this sentence from jonah lehrer’s "imagine: how creativity works" written down in my notebook: this is glaser’s fundamental method: he thinks until he…

  2. when someone upvotes my post, it feels like a friendly smile by a stranger (skuka)
    10

    i feel the sense of community here on bearblog. i was thinking of why that is, and one of the reasons is that sometimes, people upvote my posts. it is not…

  3. Big Saturday (jasper.tandy.is)
    2

    Strange day today. Tabitha had to be in school for an open day, and Charlotte didn't want to be dragged along looking for birds, for some reason?122 words · 8…

Nature

  1. Photography: A Short Hike around Lecco (Matt Fantinel)
    5

    An unexpected hike rewarded my wife, my dog and I wish this amazing view of Lecco and Monte Coltignone. Photos taken on Saturday, 09 May 2026

Tech

  1. I'm off GitHub (Kev Quirk)
    16

    Ok, that's it. I'm officially off GitHub. First I moved all of my private repos to my Synology, which was extremely easy to do. I did that around a week or so…

  2. the dumbphone idea is nothing but an idea (suliman's blog)
    5

    A few days ago, I watched a retro buyers’ guide for iPods. I was considering an iPod Nano 7 as an offline music player with Bluetooth capabilities with no…

  3. I Built My Own Search Engine (And You Can Too) (Douglas Ireland)
    18

    I got tired of Google treating my search history like a diary it owned. So I built my own private search engine. Here is how, and why you might want to do the…

  4. gaming laptop user meets portability (i bought a macbook) (monocyte’s blog)
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    when i first bought my laptop i wanted something powerful that could do it all. the only computer i had my hands on was the family laptop at the time and i was…

  5. 💌 Newsletter #008 - Of Age Gating (still), Claudia Delusions, and Getting Left Behind (Technically Good ✨)
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    ✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Of Claudia Delusions, "Tokenmaxxing", and goblins 📰 Long-Form Content: Yes, we're still on Age Gating 🌞 Good News!:…

  6. AInsecurity in software (AksDev)
    2

    If you truly believe in your product, you will spruce it up. Make it look nice. For me, generated "AI" icons and codebase just smells of insecurity and not…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. Scams That We Just Accept (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    12
  2. Just Fucking Use Go (Blain Smith)
    15
  3. I've been blocking social media on the weekends. (SAMEOLDSTORY CO)
    6
  4. Living in the terminal (Sava.Rocks)
    34
  5. The Boring Internet (Terry Godier)
    38
  6. Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a… (Mike McQuaid)
    7
  7. Europe's quiet revolt against US cloud (Will Hackett)
    8
  8. Notes on influencing politics (Matt Glassman)
    10
  9. To Smartphone or Not to Smartphone (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    8
  10. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (Terence Eden’s Blog)
    21

Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.