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

Culture

  1. The 100,000 whys of AI (lcamtuf’s thing)
    3

    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

  1. prettiest girl today (Imperfect)
    5

    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…

  2. Week 25 (Happily Imperfect)
    2

    📝 Life Notes 📚 Books 📰 Articles 📺 Media 🎧 Music 🫀 Health 🗓️ Next WeekThanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

  3. My blogger archetype (Robert Birming)
    2

    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…

  4. A Day of Rest for Me (Forking Mad+)
    2

    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

  1. Too much Friction on the Internet (Forking Mad+)
    15

    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…

  2. eipi.boo: confessions over ssh (pwnwriter.me)
    5

    Made an anonymous confession board that lives in your terminal. Go ahead and post your confession 🫶🏼 $ ssh eipi.boo

  3. Blog posts as starting points (James' Coffee Blog)
    2

    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…

  4. Nominations for Tiny Awards, for personal web projects, open now (disassociated.com)
    2

    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,…

  5. Development dependencies considered harmful (Henri Bergius)
    3

    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…

  6. QWeuRTY: the truly pan-European QWERTY layout (Z1NZ0L1N)
    2

    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…

  7. YouTube sent me a demonetization email - now what? (Mike Shuey)
    3

    YouTube sent me a demonetization email - now what?

Writing

  1. Horror and Romance as mirror genres (Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden)
    4

    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…

  2. Fairfly (ege's weblog)
    3

    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…

  3. Several short sentences on writing (Robin Rendle)
    3

    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…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. “Outlaw Billionaires” (Multiline Comment)
    31
  2. Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit (Matthew Bogart)
    57
  3. Blogger Archetype Quiz (James' Coffee Blog)
    13
  4. The rot is deep at Microsoft (§kuthus)
    8
  5. 20 steps to living silly-ly (Khoa's Space)
    17
  6. I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos (Peter Gombos)
    84
  7. How to roll dice with cards (Lonely Star)
    7
  8. Getting away from the algorithm (Antonio Santos)
    7
  9. Burst: a free (no ads) bubble shooter game for iPhone (Mijndert Stuij)
    11
  10. Hi Hackernews (Happily Imperfect)
    38
  11. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog)
    74
  12. What defines Japan's national identity? (Noahpinion)
    4
  13. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You (Ryan Moulton)
    10
  14. Totoro Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp (Evermore Stud.io)
    17
  15. Handwritten blog (V.H. Belvadi)
    21
  16. MBook -- a proposal for a new, simple e-book format based on Markdown (Kevin Boone)
    14
  17. Nobody clicks your share buttons (Ankur Sethi)
    54
  18. Appreciation for the small web (jola.dev)
    55

Tiny Bubbles

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