Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Like so many, I'm spending too much time on my smartphone. While I have reduced my smartphone use drastically, all thanks to a life without social media and a life without notifications, I'm still spending too much time on my smartphone. I've wanted to do this for the longest…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry
Life
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Save my Great Lakes from toponymical absurdity!
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I had four goals for my participation in the Blaugust community blogging project. I achieved two of them, missed one, and the jury is still out on the fourth.
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I wonder when "people" will realise that taking videos (and photos) on your mobile device should be done in wide mode, rather than tall. So many News websites…
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How long is the coastline of Great Britain? Go on. Have a guess.It sounds like the sort of question that should have a straightforward answer. Surely someone,…
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We were walking back from grabbing a couple of beers together. It had been my suggestion, after reflecting that the friend group hadn't been hanging out as…
Politics
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Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.
Tech
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I was skeptical about smart telescopes for years. Then I bought a used Seestar S50 and found a surprisingly capable little imaging system: easy to use,…
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Chat GPT and Claude continue to drive down my blog traffic. How-to posts and technical coding posts have been on a downward slope since Gen AI has gotten more…
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Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests…
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“They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building…
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QR Codes are a well-supported enough way to transfer someone onto a website on their phone. But how do you make QR codes that don’t require a large surface…
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Debian's recent vote to permit genAI contributions, alongside the questions raised by the IndieWeb is Punk manifesto, leads me to reflect on the harm-reduction…
Writing
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Tonight (well, since I’m posting this after midnight, technically last night) I was given the Hugo Award for Best Series, for “Old Man’s War.” It’s late and…
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