Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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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
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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
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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
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Keep posting if you have something to say. Keep posting if you don’t know what to say. Keep posting if you agree with something. Keep posting if you disagree…
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Moving from Anthropic's Claude to Proton's Lumo, with high-end LLMs like GLM 5.2
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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
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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…
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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.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.