Thursday, August 20, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Fresh Bubbles
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Culture
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If you return to Twitter/X after leaving it out of principle, do you really still have those principles?
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Lubin Manufacturing Company in 1911 Introduction Lubin Vault Fire Fox Vault Fire MGM Vault Fire National Archives Vault Fire Universal Studios Fire Still…
Life
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Fremantle2026 August 19 (Wednesday), 8:52AM· websites · blogging · Little Websites Everywhere, by Michelle Barker, 18 August 2026: Building a website feels…
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It’s raining. A soft drizzle. Gentle in its insistence. Coming straight down. It’s been raining since the wee small hours. I awoke at around 1:30 am this…
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The first time the Honda Fit made me stop and think "huh, maybe that is a useful car?" was when I read this review at Cool Tools where it sounded like it was…
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Kamikaze tricyclists and fighting on the beach I grew up in the Fifties in Port Tennant, a tight-knit community on the east side of Swansea, in a world of…
Tech
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I’ve found my ideal format for shipping apps for personal & family use: PWAs, with an offline-first focus, rendering (mostly) entirely client-side. JavaScript…
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Falling in love with this little camera app
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Hey y’all, I’m here today with a PSA that I find myself repeating multiple times a day, every single day. And I’m going to do it again. AI is wrong a lot. And…
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Forwarding unedited AI-generated content wastes everyone's time.
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What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.
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It's 2026 and people are shoveling features from AI into their software every day. Barry is excited to share the latest paid feature for the pros in Pika. Hot…
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A social media strategy focused entirely on the competition is in bad taste. There is nothing wrong with highlighting your strengths in comparison to theirs,…
Writing
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You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its…
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Like most people who studied English Literature in college, I've fantasized about writing a novel one day. Over time that goal has, let's say, slimmed…
Still Bubbling
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Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.