Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
I love Bear. It is one of the few places on the web that still feels calm, personal, and human. You write something, publish it, and it exists as a simple page on the internet. No algorithm. No follower count. No pressure to perform. For writing, Bear feels almost perfect to me.…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Life
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Yesterday I posted this on Mastodon (post link) I'm building a new habit here on Mastodon: instead of liking, I try to reply to at least 3 posts, especially on…
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I’ve recently been looking around for some place that isn’t Instagram, isn’t Flickr, but is a quiet place to share some of (what I consider) my better photos.…
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When I started my current job, the first couple of weeks were similar to most other places. HR induction, reams of information, sources, names, services, all…
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If you were wondering why there was a huge uptick in coffe related posts, well I had a opinion... And people had opinions about it... Like a lot of opinions.…
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So, Cauê Napier has created this nifty little thing you can add to your site called Town Square. Of course, I signed up for it right away and implemented it on…
Tech
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Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo,…
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In late March, I wrote that I'd acquired a tiny, nearly credit-card-sized e-reader and had been regularly using it. I still am! Several months later, it…
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Welp, I'm doing it. I'm canceling my Pinboard subscription. I've actually been a Pinboard customer for a very long time. I found Pinboard way back in 2010 when…
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I recently gave a talk at a doctoral school in Belgium about alternatives to Big Tech software: do they exist, where are they, and how to find them? I figured…
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Roundup of links including writing, the web, and writing on the web
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Three years and counting! Keeping up a habit for this long is quite uncommon for someone who gets as easily distracted as I do. Especially with a mind as busy…
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I used to fly all the way to California for Apple’s Developer conference, called WWDC. I’ve been an Apple fan for nearly two decades, I’m still iPadOnly, and…
Writing
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Realization over Coffee
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A reply to Michael Harley's post, "Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?".
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AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not
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.