Saturday, September 12, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
Reddit used to be a good source to find real recommendations. Well, not anymore. Years ago, I used to append "reddit" to my search queries to find real discussions about products. If you search for managed Postgres on Reddit, you may stumble on posts like this: If you look at…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets loook at why we need to act on the digital drug…
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The last few years have been hard as someone who is not only very much engaged with technologies, their applications, damages and affordances as well as their…
Life
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This video doesn't contain any code: feel free to skip it if you like, but either way I'm going to try to keep it short, so see you on the other side :-).…
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I was working on my computer in my small bachelor pad in the center of Amsterdam. A friend of mine was taking a nap in my bed; her toddler daughter was being…
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On September 11, 2001, I was 35 years old and had only been working a new job at a US Army base for about four months. The thing I always remember is that I…
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Over the Summer, I came to the conclusion that my social media experience wasn't very sociable anymore. Whether it was the constant reminder of doom through…
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This is the sixth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: 1. the joys of imperfection 2. Do we really…
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Every year, for 25 years, I’ve written on the observance of this anniversary. Some years, it’s been for me, some years it’s been for the people who’ve been…
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My kid fell out of a tree while he was at a camp this summer. He wasn’t injured but the camp called us about it. Am I a bad parent for sending him to a camp…
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Tech
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Apple held its iPhone event on Wednesday, and the hardware announcements were exactly as rumoured. As usual, the surprises were in the software. I’d been…
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I think Apple is slicing the baloney pretty thin when it says audio isn’t recorded. Surely there’s some recording because summaries require context; they can’t…
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The productivity suite, which includes a word processor and spreadsheet, similar to Office 365 (though I understand it is now called Microsoft 365), was…
Writing
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Nobody wants to read about the successful being successful. That’s a bad story. James Altucher, one of the writers I’ve stolen from, shares not to be heroes,…
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Tiny Bubbles
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