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Top Bubble

Smallweb is Becoming an Archipelago (ege's weblog)
36

The appeal of living in a small town is being surrounded by the right number of people whom you can care about. On the other hand, living in a big city might make you feel lonely in huge crowds. Being a blogger in smallweb (or IndieWeb) is akin to living in a small town with one…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Art

  1. Here's a Cool Thing - Vallejo Naval Museum's Exhibit on Trans People of Color (quailblog)
    3

    "A celebration of gender rebels throughout history"

Culture

  1. How a blog finds its people (Down the Road)
    8

    The independent Web never disappeared. It just got quieter. Here's how a blog finds its people — and why that still works.

Gaming

  1. Yoshi's Island (1995-2002) (Gaming with lwgrs)
    3

    Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) was an amazing sequel to the already-brilliant Super Mario World (1990) for the Super Nintendo. Instead of…

Life

  1. A Wake Up Call (Brandon's Journal)
    9

    When I first met my wife, around seven years ago, she was what I would call a typical internet user. She was glued to Facebook and Pinterest and spent a lot of…

  2. Your sites are ok I guess (Happily Imperfect)
    7

    In reply to my Sort your sites out note Case Duckworth takes each of my points and gives them a good grilling. There are many good points in his reply so I…

  3. 🎢 A scary moment during a rollercoaster ride (Bits by Bino)
    4

    Over the weekend we went to a theme park. Our sons got a coupon through school and, as exams are upcoming for the bigger children, a discount was offered to…

  4. I've made an anonymous blog (Alter)
    2

    I've made an anonymous blog. This one is anonymous enough you may say. And you may be right. But you also may not. I've made a private blog. There's a section…

Tech

  1. So, I Found Out I Was Clickbait Content (Read Flag)
    4

    I started receiving Reddit DMs from people asking for advice about a topic I had commented on a while ago. At first, I assumed it was just one person Googling,…

  2. Now what? (Daniel Janus)
    4

    Here’s an impressive Show HN project: a comprehensive, reverse-engineered, LLM-written technical documentation of how a calculator’s operating system works.…

  3. Facebook has been caught with its hand in this cookie jar over and over again. It’s like Zuckerberg doesn’t think any... (Joe Ross)
    1

    Facebook has been caught with its hand in this cookie jar over and over again. It’s like Zuckerberg doesn’t think anyone outside the company can… read computer…

Writing

  1. Physical vs. eBooks (amanda untangled)
    10

    I’ve become more and more disenchanted with ebooks these days. I know, I’ve posted about this before. But bear with me because my brain has been buzzing about…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. I want my friends to have blogs too (DoServer Blog)
    20
  2. Why I Didn’t Buy a New MacBook (Yet) (A Room of My Own)
    17
  3. What I got wrong about fast terminals (Mijndert Stuij)
    11
  4. Some People Are Mad at the new, "God of War: Laufey," Because You Play as a Female Character. Wait, Seriously? (The Newest Rant)
    6
  5. Why I Built Bubbles 🫧 (Bubbles 🫧 Blog)
    51

Tiny Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. Selling You The End Of The World (The Fine Print*)
    0