Bubbles Briefing

I know, I know, we're all tired of everyone writing about AI. It's all the same things, same opinions, over and over again. But I still felt compelled to write…

I am fifty-two. All the clichés are true. Time changes everything. That’s hardly a revelation to anyone older than me, and those of a similar vintage are…

Last week at the gym, I saw a guy jumping rope in the small dance studio. I used to jump rope a lot in the garage—back when we actually HAD a garage. It was my…

We have a few stray cats that venture into our back yard from time to time. One of them is a regular and he comes by most days. He was a big bushy chap when he…

Myke Hurley, marking the 12th anniversary of our company: The versions of myself and Stephen who started this podcast network in 2014 feel incredibly different…

Today a new guy at work tagged along on my home inspections. He’s where I was when I started doing this job eight years ago. To him, I’m an expert, just like I…

A reluctant defence of the garden's most necessary arseholes European Paper Wasp pollinating a marigold - My photo Wasps. The striped bloody nuisances of the…

[2:50 AM on a Sunday is also a particularly scammy time for this to be sent.] This past Sunday, I received an email from “Do Not Reply” with the subject line…

I've been thinking about how resilient my site and posts are lately, so I found Naty S's post, Re: The Loss of Links Continues, where she writes about her…

Last week Twitch announced that it had automatically opted all of its user accounts into using all content for training Amazon's generative “AI” models. They…

On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked. The watermark is…

How to set up your own atproto Personal Data Server using tranquil-pds and docker compose, walking you through it step by step.

GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by…

This changes effectively nothing I care about and continues to be completely laughable. Apple has rearranged payment options, commissions and eligibility rules…

Some silly ideas for what I'd like to be able to do easier

Emmanuel Maiberg for 404 Media: A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing…

OR: an apology to my English teachers