Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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I am having a bath. I don’t have baths very often, but I’ve a bad head cold so I’m hoping some vapour bath bubbles and a hot steamy room will help unclog me a bit. But I don’t have baths very often, to the point that I once shared the fact on social media. A […]Thanks for…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Massey College, at the University of Toronto, is an important example of Canadian efforts to emulate the ‘OxBridge’ educational and college system at Oxford…
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AllSides puts three opinion pieces side by side: one from the right, one from the left, and one they call center. All three are about whether hooking up is bad…
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I’ve had many memorable conversations in pubs, and about pubs, and one particular such exchange from a few years back still stands out. I’d been arguing the…
History
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The long road to EPUB support
Life
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So today marks the 4th anniversary of us moving to our 2.5 acre smallholding in north Wales. I can't believe it's been 4 years already - it feels like 5…
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This summer has been brutal, amongst others, I grow a fair number of cloud forest orchid species in a grow tent in my garage. This summer got hot in May and…
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This morning after the usual reflection and waffling I found myself heading out. Away from the house. The two puppies of chaos love to see me and hate me to…
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on the price that I'm willing to pay
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Take a few minutes to watch the video above or, if you’re more of a written word person, keep reading. It’s not uncommon for me to come home from a trip with…
Politics
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Data centres pose an existential risk to our fragile water systems in Australia.
Tech
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[In Europe, anyway, where regulators do this funny thing called “regulating”.] I’ve previously noted that Tesla’s claimed “Full Self-Driving” isn’t, and that…
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Above you see the nice li’l machine that has a nice SAS card that I’m using for my /dvd RAID (that, confusingly enough, has more ripped blurays than ripped…
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I just found out about Ember, a really nice theme for NetNewsWire that works for both mobile and Mac. An article from Unsung as rendered by Ember
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Notes on capping CPU frequency for daily use. A decade habit of running laptops at 500 MHz, why it started, and what it actually feels like day to day.
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Charlotte Tobitt, writing for Press Gazette, about subscription plans Meta introduced last month, that effectively monetise the posting of links from some…
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Today I learned more about fonts and found one great one to replace my current setup and pair with my colour palette. Maple Mono is an excellent monospace font…
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to prevent user generated content (UGC) from maliciously triggering HTMX 4 and Alpine.js behaviors in his ColdFusion output....
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There’s a new thing going around in the blogosphere1: human.json. The idea is quite charming: set up such a file to declare that you are human who doesn’t use…
Writing
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Have you ever asked yourself why cats, and black cats especially, seem prone to keeping witches as companions? It's a fascinating question, and it turns out…
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