Bubbles Weekly

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product

Exploring the (micro) zine medium.

Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.

The in-house sessions showing off the tech are embarrassing; led by the wrong people, and should likely not even happen in the first place.

A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my case,…

An argument broke out during my commute today. Two men were going at it hard in the crowd. One of them lost his cool and switched to his native tongue. The…

The independent Web never disappeared. It just got quieter. Here's how a blog finds its people — and why that still works.

what we lose when we glide through life

I've noticed these last few weeks there's been an increase in ads on TV and social for new settings for teen accounts on platforms such as Instagram and…

“God of War,” is a long-running game series. The earlier ones were extremely over the top and followed a protagonist named Kratos as he killed a bunch of Gods…

The appeal of living in a small town is being surrounded by the right number of people whom you can care about. On the other hand, living in a big city might…

Blogs. The curated, written looking glass into someone's perspective. That's what I love about them. Blogs. Waking up in the morning and spending a little time…

Well, not to be left out of the great buy me a coffee debate, I thought I'd add my two cents. The original, at HakkerBlog, No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee, is a…

Do note that this is a slightly sarcastic post, there is alot of sarcasm on the internet at the moment. Take a moment to reflect if you want to expose yourself…

Do note that this is a slightly negative post, there is alot of negativity on the internet at the moment. Take a moment to reflect if you want to expose…

A few days ago I was introduced to someone. It was a brief encounter while I passed through a room of people with a friend. My friend introduced me: "Hi Colin,…

Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our sweet boy, Linus. Linus in his natural environment. If it fits, it sits.Richmond, VA · April…

But, I mean, if you want to buy me a coffee...

The year is 2007. Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone in January. I spend the summer working at a camp in Pennsylvania. And before heading back home to the…

When I first met my wife, around seven years ago, she was what I would call a typical internet user. She was glued to Facebook and Pinterest and spent a lot of…

to add onto the pile of back and forth posts of coffee posts on bubblesi honestly dont think that the buy me a coffee stuff is super offensive?like i have one…

I prefer ice tea or chocolate milk. Just joining the blogspam shitposting dont mind me. Context:…

I've never made a fuss about spending too much time doomscrolling. I get that it's technically an addiction, but as someone who's been through real addiction,…

In reply to my Sort your sites out note Case Duckworth takes each of my points and gives them a good grilling. There are many good points in his reply so I…

It pays to check notifications on your discarded social media every once in a while I guess lmao

Sometimes, I take on voluntary work I don’t want to do. Like this current project I’m working on with my sister. I do it out of a feeling of obligation and…

Up very early and headed out for a cycle. Stayed at Aberfoyle last night (Cobel Campsite), so it was a couple of hours out and back to Stronachlar. Lovely road…

I can ride out a wave of stress to meet a deadline or finish an emotionally intense activity, but as soon as it’s over and I let myself relax, I hit a wall and…

Iain Gray, News Letter: Tech mogul Elon Musk encouraged “repeated and loud” protests ahead of Northern Ireland’s immigration demonstrations, some of which…

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs.…

“We’re all better than AI. AI is just better at pretending it can do the job.” The post “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” first appeared on Correr Es Mi…

I currently use three laptops: a work-issued Windows machine that I use every day, a personal 17-inch Windows laptop that I used at my previous job (and…

As mentioned before, I’ve been heading to Bubbles more and more to get my little blog fix every day. Hey, I’m an addict, I’ll happily admit that! Bubbles is…

Gordon McLean and Case Duckworth had a good back-and-forth about typography and layout. Gordon says you should make your website uncluttered and easy to read.…

A reader pushed back on my fast-terminal post, and they were right about more than I'd like. On benchmarking shells properly, modern zsh, and the difference…

Andreas blogged about adding the bubbles.town widget to his blog. He used the vote widget provided by bubbles.town, which is just a bit of JavaScript you put…

I was just looking around the Privacyguides forums and found a mention of Uruky. It’s a 100% EU-based, simpler private search engine. Setting up an account is…

One of the most irritating developments of modern life is the way companies keep improving things that were already working. Nobody asked for New Coke. Nobody…

About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me…

My blog is now on Bubbles! Bubbles curates posts from independent, personal blogs and puts them in one feed. People can vote on posts they like, which then…

I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to…

There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain to access…

I’ve become more and more disenchanted with ebooks these days. I know, I’ve posted about this before. But bear with me because my brain has been buzzing about…

Imagine transporting yourself back in time.  What would you want to see?

84 years ago today a thirteen-year-old girl was given an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checked cloth, for her birthday. She decided to use it as a…