Bubbles Briefing

The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.

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Top Bubble

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget (splitbrain.org)
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PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the idea is that you can discover new blogs one random post at a time.…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Art

  1. My Micro Zine Library (Stefan Bohacek)
    8

    Exploring the (micro) zine medium.

  2. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    23

    How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product

  3. AI-sphyxiation (Olly)
    2

    AI-sphyxiation /ˌeɪ aɪ sfɪksiˈeɪʃən/ (AY-eye sfik-see-AY-shən)nounThe gradual suffocation of otherwise useful products by unwanted and unwarranted AI…

Culture

  1. My Polyamory is Boring (Dan Q)
    16

    A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my case,…

  2. Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (Cauê Napier)
    37

    Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.

  3. friction (be the future)
    7

    what we lose when we glide through life

Life

  1. Call me Sarah! (Forking Mad+)
    28

    A few days ago I was introduced to someone. It was a brief encounter while I passed through a room of people with a friend. My friend introduced me: "Hi Colin,…

  2. please buy me a coffee (candyether.space)
    5

    to add onto the pile of back and forth posts of coffee posts on bubblesi honestly dont think that the buy me a coffee stuff is super offensive?like i have one…

  3. 🎫 A small act of kindness (Bits by Bino)
    5

    I recently ran the 20k of Brussels, one of Belgium’s most iconic and popular running events. This year, more than 40k runners lined up at the start. The fact…

  4. Would you like more coffee? (Kali Kambo)
    1

    A debate is going around the IndieWeb about “buy me a coffee” links. The two sides are: 1. Blogging should be free and so you shouldn’t ask for money. 2....

Tech

  1. Rolling my own bubbles.town widget (Michael Harley)
    13

    Andreas blogged about adding the bubbles.town widget to his blog. He used the vote widget provided by bubbles.town, which is just a bit of JavaScript you put…

  2. I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (Miguel Grinberg's Blog)
    6

    About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me…

  3. My blog is now on Bubbles... (Kali Kambo)
    8

    My blog is now on Bubbles! Bubbles curates posts from independent, personal blogs and puts them in one feed. People can vote on posts they like, which then…

  4. how i stay connected as a digital minimalist (suliman's blog)
    1

    When Juni announced her carnival topic, a lot of us in Simple Chats were excited. It’s a Bearblog classic, though it being a carnival topic promised lots of…

Writing

  1. Blogs that influenced me the most (Infinite Regress)
    2

    To state the obvious: I have been following blogs for much longer than I’ve had one. A version of what now goes under “Infinite Regress” first started in…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb (brennan.day)
    41
  2. ☕If you want to buy me a coffee (Firesphere's musings)
    11
  3. You can tell it's a personal website because it has personality (newsonaut)
    16
  4. You Are Protecting a Score No One Is Counting (Nikhil's Blog)
    7
  5. Re: No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee (Michael Harley)
    15
  6. Yes, buy me a coffee (Happily Imperfect)
    14
  7. “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” (Correr Es Mi Destino)
    25
  8. Elon Musk’s Age of Impunity (Pixel Envy)
    5
  9. Don't buy me a coffee (AksDev)
    5
  10. Social media for teens (Sam Hardacre)
    5
  11. Uruky: Kagi alternative, EU-based private search engine (Yee Chie's Corner)
    8
  12. No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee (HakkerBlog)
    16
  13. Kagi: Good Enough to Leave Google (search) (JAMES' CORNER)
    11

Tiny Bubbles

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