Saturday, August 8, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text. I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view release notes” ritual? There is nothing I dread…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Owning media again This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give…
History
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For five summers running, a working farm turned nudist resort outside a small town in southern Ontario pulled off something genuinely strange. Every July,…
Politics
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Kalshi and Polymarket are the big names in the new sector of "prediction markets", and other established names like Robinhood and Crypto.com are getting in on…
Tech
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If the title was "Meta developers accessed the internet and hacked another firm", the reactions would have been different. There would be some lawsuits at…
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Apple rejected an astronomy app from the iOS App Store because “it was astrology”. When the author appealed, Apple doubled down because “We understand that the…
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YouTube is trying to become everything you watch on the TV. Luckily, there are still ways to opt. At least for now.
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Photo by Олег Мороз on Unsplash Introduction Michael Harley wrote a piece called How I make my blog posts more resilient a couple of days ago. There are a lot…
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I do not do any Phoneblogging. Zero. None. Zilch. The closest I get is reading my RSS reader and saving posts to a blog ideas list. As I get older, I just…
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.