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Top Bubble

Bubbles.town: Four Months Later (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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After several months of using Bubbles.town, I share my long-term review of the IndieWeb aggregator. The good: discovering diverse blogs across niche topics. The issues: glacial pace of content changes, popularity contest dynamics, categorization problems, and sparse community…

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. Dolly Parton, RIP (Whatever)
    8

    It was pretty clear this day was coming — her health had been failing and she had missed several high profile appearances — but this doesn’t make today any…

Film & TV

  1. 8 Movies to Know Me (Strange Voyages)
    2

    Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd…

Gaming

  1. 9 Games to Know Me (Strange Voyages)
    8

    Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd…

Life

  1. SITTING IN MY DISCOMFORT (PRETEND TYPEWRITER)
    7

    My discomfort triggers my negative self-talk.

  2. AI can be useful! (Happily Imperfect)
    4

    It’s the start of the school year —our first, as Jack is in Primary One— and we’ve received an email from the school outlining policies, teaching plans, and…

  3. The Hunt for Riker's Moose (and Apple Juice) (quailblog)
    2

    Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos (Photo unrelated)

  4. Luna’s Gaming Log turns 1 today! Looking back and ahead (Luna's Gaming Log)
    3

    Things might get cheesy.

Tech

  1. Please interact with my blog post! (ege's weblog)
    6

    This website is, in some sense, an open call for everyone out there: “this is what I think and this is what I do, let’s connect!” This requires setting up…

  2. Bijective Base Representation (Information Camouflage)
    3

    I wanted to convert a large number of string representations of common Base 10 number to Bijective Base 10. I found a textual method of creating the Bijective…

  3. Signal…Kind of Sucks to Use (James Zhan in real life.)
    2

    My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal, but to…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. I have eliminated Microsoft from my life once and for all! (§kuthus)
    23
  2. My Mom Has Cancer (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    10
  3. When Your Nostalgia Feeds Real World Hate (ideatrash)
    7
  4. Em Dash Is Fine – It Is AI That Sucks (From thoughts to text)
    11
  5. NO THANK YOU. (jsrn.net)
    33
  6. Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (The Autodidacts)
    20

Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.