Monday, June 22, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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I can't stop thinking about this stupid interaction I had while playing an online game with strangers. For context, my username is very obviously feminine and I don't hide the fact that I'm a woman when talking to strangers. Somehow, in the chat, the topic of operating systems…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.
Life
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Earlier this month, I discovered more Bear blogs that I haven't seen before via the platform's Random blog link feature. Compared to those found via the Random…
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I took James' cool little Blogger Archetype Quiz. I expected to get some cheeky reply like: "Your dreams are made of markdown and your laptop has enough…
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Hello follower(s?), I'm just checking into say I have been crazy busy for several days -- hardly a moment on the information super highway. I've been away a…
Tech
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I'm old enough to have seen the Internet become a thing. From the early days of simple emails and web pages, and squealing dial-up modems connecting to the…
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Made an anonymous confession board that lives in your terminal. Go ahead and post your confession 🫶🏼 $ ssh eipi.boo
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In my “Open sourcing a quiz maker” blog post, I frame my quiz maker as a step toward what could be something better: a script that you can use, but where I see…
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Nominations for the 2026 Tiny Awards, are being accpted until the end of the month, June. Entry is open to websites of a non-commercial and/or personal nature,…
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Time is a precious resource for open source maintainers, especially if you aren’t doing it as part of paid work. The constant churn of changing development…
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If you don’t speak French, you might never have heard of the AZERTY keyboard — the weird cousin of QWERTY with its shifted number row and a scattering of…
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YouTube sent me a demonetization email - now what?
Writing
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I’ve been thinking about genre again, pondering Romance and horror as two sides of a coin. I compared notes* with a friend who reads a lot of horror, and we…
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Yesterday we saw the new play by our comrades in Antrakt7: Fairfly. It’s a play written by the Catalan author Joan Yago which tells the story of four…
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This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that I struggle to keep my eyes open. I don’t…
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