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I made a bee bath (Laura Michet)
9

We are attempting to lure pollinators to our balcony (yes, so that I can photograph them...) and as part of this scheme, we built a "bee bath" out of a plant pot saucer . Note the dirty Squirtle and Minecraft figurines. You may recall having seen bees drinking water out of a…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Life

  1. Junited is a celebration of the blogosphere (Juha-Matti Santala)
    2

    In 2024, Robert Birming launched Junited which is a month-long event during which we focus on sharing great things other people have written. I love blogging…

  2. Mental defrag (Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden)
    6

    I can ride out a wave of stress to meet a deadline or finish an emotionally intense activity, but as soon as it’s over and I let myself relax, I hit a wall and…

  3. Clouds (James' Coffee Blog)
    1

    “No way,” I exclaim with wonder and glee and surprise. I look up and stare for a few moments, transfixed by the delicate wisps of cloud that rest side by…

  4. Moments; time (James' Coffee Blog)
    2

    One of my favourite parts of writing – and, by extension, blogging – is that I can, in words, capture a little bit of a day, and keep a little record of the…

Tech

  1. Life is too short for a slow terminal (Mijndert Stuij)
    12

    I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell…

  2. 💌 Newsletter #010 - LLMs and: Profitability, Security, and not Leveling the Job Application Playing Field; plus Good News on Pushback & Digital Sovereignty (Technically Good ✨)
    2

    ✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: AI CV's: (Some of us) are damned if we do, damned if we don't; Is it AI, or is it a security liability!?, Is AI…

  3. Writing with WordPress Write (Root Privileges)
    2

    I’m writing this post on Write, the new text composer/editor on WordPress.com. According to the official blog post, Write is a response to last year’s Creators…

  4. Cloudflare CEO says AI bots now exceed human traffic on the web (Waxy.org)
    1

    over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics #

Still Bubbling

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

  1. List of blog aggregators (bstn.info)
    25
  2. Aphantasia and the Other Senses of the Mind (Cauê Napier)
    7
  3. In continuing to promote the “small web” of writers out there, I bumped into a site called Bubbles.town. It acknowled... (Defiant Sloth)
    11
  4. I built my own music collection and why you should too (Rishabh P. Sharma)
    20
  5. a good domain (skryblans)
    11
  6. Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed (Software and Tech stories from an Inside…)
    19

Tiny Bubbles

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