Friday, June 19, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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Culture
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swiped from bakeracademic.comEric O. Jacobsen, The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment (Baker Academic, 2012), 297 pp.If Jesus's…
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The European Commission has moved its profiles to W Social. That's a terrible decision.
Life
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Here are 20 steps that I reconned somewhere on the internet. Even though I called them "steps," order of execution does not matter. Take yourself out for…
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Writing publicly and frequently for the past seven months has saved my life. Six ways consistent public writing transformed me: cultivating curiosity, building…
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I wear my favorite perfumes and body sprays at home. I used to try to save them for when I went out on a nice date or attended an upscale Event, then I…
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My woodworking shop is coming together nicely and one benefit of having everything in the right place is that it makes completing new projects faster and…
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This week I bought an iPod Classic 4th Generation (Mono) and I’m planning on daily driving it. It might seem a strange thing to do, but hear me out.
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Yesterday, Sylvia shared a few thoughts stemming from her post shared on Mastodon: I'm building a new habit here on Mastodon: instead of liking, I try to reply…
Music
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An ongoing tribute to someone who, objectively, was the best cat there ever was
Tech
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I was more than a little interested with flags as a kid. I loved learning about the history of their designs, what they represented, their aesthetics, and how…
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Ticker tape, as such, has been defunct for more than 50 years. The machines were a form of telegraph connected to printers: since they wasn’t carrying general…
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When the agent does the typing, your fundamentals quietly atrophy. Why it happens now, and the habits I'm using to stay sharp.
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I recently moved this website away from NextJS as the static generation engine. The site was working, but it had become heavier than what I needed. Most pages…
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A year with the Garmin Forerunner 570: an alarm that won't reliably go off, buggy software, and why I'm tempted to switch.
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I am geek adjacent. I lie probably slap bang in the middle of two extremes; the uber-geek/dev coder who knows internet coding and all the web server dark arts…
Writing
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A $69 e-ink reader changed my reading habit by sitting in my pocket ahead of my phone. On single-use devices, free epub sources, and actually reading more.
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