Bubbles Briefing

Found a Star Wars cup... - Light, Logged!

Years ago, I had an experience that showed me what a bad retirement could look like. It was like Scrooge being visited by the Ghost of Retirement Future.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve kept wondering how I would describe summer in our region with just one picture. Maybe a day at the lake? The old town flooded...

So last night I played cricket. I did my usual – hung around for a bit and scored fuck all – but it was during the biggest solar eclipse since 1999. I was…

If you read my original post about how having Crohn's has affected my relationship with food, a sequel is probably a decent surprise. It ended pretty…

A nice surprise when the meteor shower didn't pan out

This is saying from my brother when we were younger. My mum is asian, and part of being asian means she loooves getting the best deal.

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else’s garden. (This isn’t some ~deep~ metaphor, I’ve literally been watering someone else’s garden.) My…

I understand the argument that if you don’t like what Big Tech is doing, you should vote with your wallet. It’s a simple equation after all. Stop buying Apple…

I’m currently pulling together a bunch of sources – that are mostly recent – on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed…

The problem with saying "technical debt" in these situations is it makes you look unserious. If you use "technical debt" to mean "a problem we didn't realize…

Yesterday I published a spicy tale of an App Store fraud perpetrated by a developer deep into AI slop. My blog post was linked by Daring Fireball and 9to5Mac,…

Switching from Octopus Agile to EDF FreePhase Dynamic plus the Home Assistant card I built to track rates and free sessions