Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
https://bubbles.town/static/bubbles_1200x630.png While reading 6 Months of Bubbles by Gordon, I started wondering to myself how I'd change bubbles to make it easier to discover fresher and more niche content, while still providing the "best" posts for easy reading. Here's how…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Crafts
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A few weeks ago Lisa and I made some heftier handmade paper, and experimented with pressing previously carved lino blocks into the still-wet pulp.Today I took…
Culture
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Looking for a world of like, yet lost minds
Life
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Around half of us have hemorrhoids, yet it's still a sore subject. Here are my thoughts, plus some butt-ons to show we stand united.
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There are times at my age when I look back and wonder, "What if?" Don't get me wrong, there are a plethora of things in the span of my 60 years that I am…
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While on the bus on my way to work this morning the thought occurred to me that I should really make an effort to get back into meditation. To be honest I’ve…
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There's been a lot of discourse about the small web self selecting for AI and Tech and that being the bulk of the content. E.g the very good post here from…
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Water flossers are great dental hygiene product but, for what they are, they can be pretty expensive. Spending over £100 for something that sprays water…
Politics
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When I posted a piece on the latest failure of the US Navy a while back, I predicted that I wouldn’t be changing any minds. That was one of my safer…
Tech
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heya! every now and then, I'll see a post complaining about how narrow the focus of the small/indie web is. today, that was this post, by Yunzi, where they…
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I made a tiny e-readerI saw this video a while ago and it absolutely ticked all my weird boxes.It's smallIt's pretty DIYIt's cheapI get to learn something…
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The other day I was reading Dan Luu's post on speeding up his site by 50x. Not bad, Dan, I thought. But as someone who is essentially running a hand coded…
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So, let me first say that LibreWolf is a very decent browser. Maybe it’s just old, crotchety me stuck in his Netscape Navigator ways (OK, thats not totally…
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The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of…
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In which I show how, over the last few years, the world has rapidly moved from open-source software being produced and maintained by online communities, to…
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My blog used to use Crimson Pro as the main body font, something that threads the needle of being serif-y enough for the Possession-esque posts, but not too…
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It's been over a year since I mostly broke up with GitHub. In that year, I've been running my own public Forgejo instance for my personal projects. It's…
Writing
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A few months ago, I was at a coffee shop for a small event I put together. A reading party where only 2 people showed up. Still, we had a fantastic time…
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.