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Digital Declutter (niqwithq)
9

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

  1. Oh, Dolly! Oh, Rocky! (Off-Modern Onions)
    4

    Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry

Life

  1. Back to Ontario 🇨🇦 (Brian Knight)
    6

    Save my Great Lakes from toponymical absurdity!

  2. Six Links that Aren’t the News (Kaijuville)
    4
  3. Blogging goals achieved, kinda (Courtney Rosenthal)
    2

    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.

  4. Wide Not Tall (Forking Mad+)
    9

    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…

  5. How Great is Great Britain? (Maps Mania)
    2

    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,…

  6. i want to see more sunsets (jotted notes)
    5

    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

  1. Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (The Fine Print*)
    18

    Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.

Tech

  1. A Small Telescope That Surprised Me (Frank Adler :: Astrophotography & Web En…)
    4

    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,…

  2. AI Killed My Blog Traffic (Clint McMahon)
    5

    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…

  3. My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point (Jim Nielsen)
    3

    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…

  4. Fine, I’ll build my own text editor! (David Bushell)
    5

    “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…

  5. Optimizing Links for QR Codes (Lotte’s Attic)
    2

    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…

  6. SAD MACHINE (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
    2

    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

  1. Suddenly: Hugo! (Whatever)
    3

    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…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964 (Nibble Stew)
    18
  2. Returning to owning things in a streaming world (localghost)
    14
  3. Why Old Software Sometimes Feels Better (Dead Parrot BBS)
    18
  4. Optimism isn't naive – pessimism is just the easy option (MattCASmith)
    7
  5. Write for Yourself First (Nikhil's Blog)
    15
  6. It's my dang birthday (Michael Harley)
    4
  7. You can now hide posts by keyword 🙈 (Bubbles 🫧 Blog)
    16
  8. I put my childhood chatbot on the internet (Amy Tries Life)
    15
  9. Why People Quit Blogging (Unattributed)
    25
  10. I have eliminated Microsoft from my life once and for all! (§kuthus)
    23
  11. I love learning! (foosel.net)
    14

Tiny Bubbles

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