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Please meet our cat Linus (Michael Harley)
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Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our sweet boy, Linus. Linus in his natural environment. If it fits, it sits.Richmond, VA · April 2026 We brought Linus home from the local Richmond SPCA at the end of November, 2024. At the SPCA, he had a lot of…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. It's hard to be good at your tech job right now (Jonas Downey) (Dan Kim)
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    This post by Jonas Downey is a must read. He talks about all the feelings of being in tech right now with AI bearing down on us. But most importantly, he…

Life

  1. Buying Coffee Has Become Controversial? OK, You Can Now Buy Me Coffee (blog.spu.io)
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    TW: we're getting kinda close to the topic of depression, but not quite just yet

  2. Career Update - Life After Stepping Down (Kev Quirk)
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    Last October I made the decision to step down from my role as a global executive in the cybersecurity industry. The last 8 months have gone by in a flash, so I…

Nature

  1. Tunnels and Trestles: Biking Canada’s Kettle Valley Rail Trail (Geographical Journeys)
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    Highlights of two of the Iconic sections of British Columbia's Kettle Valley Rail trail, including Myra Canyon and the Naramata Bench.

Tech

  1. I Fired Google (The Art of Doing Stuff)
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    One of the most irritating developments of modern life is the way companies keep improving things that were already working. Nobody asked for New Coke. Nobody…

  2. A tale of two browsers (Adactio: Journal)
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    I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to…

  3. I like the Uruky search engine (AksDev)
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    Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my…

Writing

  1. The Diary of a Young Girl (Forking Mad+)
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    84 years ago today a thirteen-year-old girl was given an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checked cloth, for her birthday. She decided to use it as a…

  2. We the people, pending review (Behind the Viewfinder)
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    Juneteenth is next Friday. Revisiting a May 2017 night walk through the DC monuments — and the license-plate Constitution, now in a museum whose exhibits are…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    23
  2. Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (Cauê Napier)
    37
  3. PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget (splitbrain.org)
    43
  4. Call me Sarah! (Forking Mad+)
    28
  5. Rolling my own bubbles.town widget (Michael Harley)
    13
  6. Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb (brennan.day)
    41
  7. friction (be the future)
    7
  8. You can tell it's a personal website because it has personality (newsonaut)
    16
  9. our workplace LLM mass delusion (ava's blog)
    21
  10. 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.