Friday, May 29, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
So I have a few sites with SiteGround. They’re largely sites that don’t get a huge amount of traffic (with the exception of All Rumble Stats, which gets 20k a month). Hosting is a bit like your bank account or your broadband provider: they are there and as long as you don’t do…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Stan Lee is dead. Unlike comic-book characters, he died and is not coming back. Many articles painted his last years before his passing in 2018 as pretty…
Life
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Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's start with Wikipedia, because the irony is almost too perfect to pass up. In mid-May, the Wikimedia…
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It entirely surprised me to see that my last post, a little tongue-in-cheek thing explaining vibe blogging, https://skryblans.com/vibe-blogging/ appeared on…
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I sometimes hear people my age (I'm 55) talk about tech and the younger generation. Not just the usual conversations about social media and doomscrolling…
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The turn is on a bend in the road. As I drive towards it the road curves to the right and the entrance I want is just round the apex of the corner, on the…
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I'm about to tell you a story about the major disaster which affected much of my decisionmaking on my week-long vacation to Santa Fe. I just got home to LA,…
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It's that time again where I reflect on the impact of AI on my life. Those who follow along will know I have no time for such Automated Ignorance. The…
Tech
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I've decided to cancel my monthly donation to the Mediawiki foundation for now
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A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old computers, setting up Linux, SSH, Docker, and self-hosting…
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I read a lot of blog posts in my RSS reader of choice —NetNewsWire— but for those I want to revisit I tend to open the post directly in Safari so I can go back…
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A fun look at making coding assistants talk less, and what that actually saves in practice. The main takeaway is that shorter replies help, but most token cost…
Writing
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Folks have been asking me questions about my writerdeck setup. Here, I attempt to answer them.
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.