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

Culture

  1. Book review: The Space Between (Holy Mountain: A Blog about Our Common L…)
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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…

  2. The European Commission falls for openness theater by working with W Social (Ben Werdmuller)
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    The European Commission has moved its profiles to W Social. That's a terrible decision.

Life

  1. 20 steps to living silly-ly (Khoa's Space)
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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…

  2. Blogging Saved My Life (brennan.day)
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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…

  3. I invented a fake hobby and then wrote a book about how you can take part in it (weird medieval guys)
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    Become a wordspotter this November!

  4. i wear my favorite perfumes at home (stitching)
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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…

  5. When Overwhelmed, Slow Down (Nathan Peterson)
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    the opportunity in feeling overwhelmed

  6. Building a modern outdoor sofa (A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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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…

  7. I Bought a 2004 iPod in 2026 (Chris Collins' Notes)
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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.

  8. Re: Don't be afraid to comment (Lyteforce Writes)
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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

  1. Pazuzu (Spectre Collie)
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    An ongoing tribute to someone who, objectively, was the best cat there ever was

Tech

  1. PSA for web designers: flags have ratios! (Rubenerd)
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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…

  2. Throwing Garbage As A Sign Of Respect (Old Structures Engineering)
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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…

  3. Skill Rot Is Real (Jason Robert)
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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.

  4. Replacing NextJS With a Rust Static Site Generator (Patrick Desjardins Blog)
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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…

  5. Garmin needs to do better (Mijndert Stuij)
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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.

  6. The Web Won Because It Got Easier (Happily Imperfect)
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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

  1. Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit (Matthew Bogart)
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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.

Still Bubbling

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

  1. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog)
    74
  2. No regrets switching to Linux (Greg Boone)
    37
  3. Nobody clicks your share buttons (Ankur Sethi)
    54
  4. I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos (Peter Gombos)
    84
  5. FileZilla is still awesome after 24 years (Paul Jacobson)
    28
  6. MBook -- a proposal for a new, simple e-book format based on Markdown (Kevin Boone)
    14
  7. Caps lock is useless and I wish I could remove it (opulence piledrive)
    21
  8. 20 Years of Blogging (remy sharp's b:log)
    13
  9. How not to use “AI” (workshop) (The Ideophone)
    9
  10. Appreciation for the small web (jola.dev)
    55
  11. I missed Anil Dash’s lovely essay covering some of the history of Markdown (jagibson.org)
    8
  12. Why Does Trump Want the Save America Act? The Answer Should Worry Us. (Balkinization)
    9
  13. Optimism is good, actually (§kuthus)
    8
  14. Adding a Town Square (Kev Quirk)
    18
  15. Why I Built Bubbles 🫧 (Bubbles 🫧 Blog)
    51
  16. Tim Cook Says Apple Will Raise Prices Due to Memory Shortage (Eshu Marneedi)
    5
  17. Why Yes, I'll Buy You a Coffee (The Art Of Not Asking Why)
    11
  18. Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? (Michael Harley)
    26
  19. Bubbles mentioned in the Installer Newsletter by The Verge. (@gurupanguji)
    29
  20. Announcing folk.zone: An attempt to build the IndieWeb commons myself. (brennan.day)
    21
  21. Don't be afraid to comment (Sylvia's Studio)
    12
  22. Fascinating Photos of the Soviet Union Taken by American Professor Thomas T. Hammond, 1950s–1970s (Rare Historical Photos)
    10
  23. Please meet our cat Linus (Michael Harley)
    19
  24. Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb (brennan.day)
    40
  25. our workplace LLM mass delusion (ava's blog)
    21
  26. Added human.json to my site (AksDev)
    12

Tiny Bubbles

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