Saturday, August 29, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
Meet SadBot :) The crappiest chatbot you'll talk to in 2026, but the most authentic one. I built him in 2020 when I was 10 years old, back when AI chatbots were even crappier than the automated ones on government websites.
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Life
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Six months ago I bought an EV. It's been a great experience and I've learned a lot. Or, more accurately, I've unlearned a lot.
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I have been writing consistently here for a year now. You can go back a year and find one essay published every single day without fail. I have broken a lot of…
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A rusting gasoline pump at an abandoned shop in China Camp Village in China Camp State Park near San Rafael, California. The post Old Pump appeared first on…
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Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down soon. I came up with an idea for a small project to say goodbye. I was getting pretty excited to build this, but I...
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I’ve headed into the big list of drafts in the back end of my website because I’m in the mood for writing blog posts and sharing photos at the moment. This…
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(with apologies to Spoon)
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I found these in a drawer full of “misc”. What can they be? Hm… “Night light”… “lustgården”… “The lie”… Oh! Right! Back when I was watching 87 Bergman things I…
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One large mug, two Yorkshire tea bags, steeped in freshly boiled water for 2 minutes, squeeze and remove the bags, generous splash of milk. The weather has…
Nature
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Let's just call it what it is. Diminished mental capacity. That is what the world sees.
Tech
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Announcing a new open-source, asynchronous Blogging Studies syllabus that blends writing craft and independent web publishing, built on Codeberg. I trace the…
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Back in 2006, adding vanity nameservers to my personal domains was just something I did as a matter of course, but - like most of the Internet - I don't bother…
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I've made this theme for bearblog where your posts look like they're pages in a book!!! (on mobile, it's an old parchment, not a book) There are still sure to…
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cove.town consists of a PDS, a knot, a spindle, and a hold, and is fully built on itself. The source code is hosted on the knot, updates trigger workflows…
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The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which…
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After exceeding my free Netlify bandwidth for the first time and wiring up a homelab to run this site, I reflect on how my life has narrowed around writing and…
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.