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Knitting the Web: We Need Interlinkers! (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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Responding to Coyote's critique of Bubbles.town and feed aggregators, I argue that the IndieWeb needs more interlinkers—bloggers who meaningfully synthesize and weave together the writing of others. On the garden/stream/campfire metaphors for the web, the difference between…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. The mess, the Commons, and the Paths Out of Mess (Hamish Campbell)
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    We spend a lot of time talking about crises as if they’re sudden events, they rarely are. From an #OMN perspective, crises are the outcome of decades of…

Food

  1. Chuckwagon Beef & Pasta Skillet (Easy One‑Pan Dinner) (The English Kitchen)
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    If you’re looking for a hearty, family‑friendly skillet supper that comes together quickly and delivers big comfort, this Chuckwagon Beef & Pasta Skillet is…

Life

  1. Reading books on your phone (winther blog)
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    Being on vacation always reignites my motivation to read books. I mostly read on my Kindle, but during this vacation I read an entire book on my phone. Because…

  2. Your Hell is Someone's Heaven (Living Kindfully)
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    Today I visited a refugee school that house 96 students. It is located in the poorer parts of the city. The school is right on top of a restaurant. They took…

Nature

  1. Mt Haku: hiking one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Emma Goto)
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    Mt Haku (白山, haku-san) or quite literally "White Mountain" is a 2702m elevation mountain located on the borders of Ishikawa and Gifu prefectures. We hiked Mt…

Tech

  1. I’d not buy a LG monitor (beko.famkos.net)
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    There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry. It reports about LG’s latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to…

  2. Most Googlebots are fake (Digital Seams)
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    I recently saw complaints about Google’s search engine crawler taking down websites by sending them too much traffic:We had googlebot blast a random customer…

  3. Beyond “Clean Code”: Why Your Comments Matter (Tom Moertel)
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    By Tom Moertel Posted on July 27, 2026 Tags: code, comments, clean code, good code, nature of code, purpose of code, source code, definitions, theory,…

  4. Goodbye WordPress, hello Pure Blog ! (Cafélog)
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    Back in February, I discovered Pure Blog, and it has stayed in a corner of my head since then. A few days ago, I installed it locally and gave it a try. Long…

  5. A Comprehensive Annotated Timeline of the SCP Wiki's Ongoing Crash (Throne of Salt)
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    CW: this post entails an excruciatingly-detailed breakdown of the SCP wiki’s systematic and years-long mishandling of a high-profile sex abuse case. It entails…

  6. Moving from Claude to Proton Lumo ($ cat ~nutts/blog/*.md)
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    Moving from Anthropic's Claude to Proton's Lumo, with high-end LLMs like GLM 5.2

  7. Every Commit A Sentence: Git Commit Messages for Bloggers (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    I had 448 `feat:` commits and 417 `fix:` commits. Nearly the same count, for wildly different kinds of work. Here's why conventional commits were never…

Writing

  1. Reconsidering Bearblog; or, On the Value of Words (Scholarch's Blog)
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    Last Sunday, I wrote a post calling out Robert Birming's repetitive writing. The post gained traction, receiving around 85 toasts before it got…

  2. Well, why not? (Making Book)
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    The New York Times has an interesting article by Kashmir Hill, about her reaction to discovering a 90-page AI biography of herself on Amazon. Here’s a link to…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Analog Maximalism (JASON JOURNALS)
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  2. What exactly does GitHub’s security team do? (Orchid Files)
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  3. Kuramae's book stores: Tomei and Readin' Writin' (Emma Goto)
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  4. Em dashes are amazing (Sal's Blog)
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Tiny Bubbles

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