Bubbles Weekly

I probably will revise this post in the next 24-36 hours. But hopefully not too much. After a good sleep I suspect I’ll have some edits. Ten years ago I…

From Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age: Origins to Mass Effect 2, BioWare helped define a generation of role-playing games. Its closure may not be entirely…

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…

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…

Retirement boredom isn't laziness or ingratitude — it's lost structure and lost identity. One retiree's honest take on the boring days nobody warns you about.

The other day Jen asked me if I noticed anything wrong with our fridge; the milk seemed to be spoiling quickly, which was out of the ordinary. We put a…

NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard.  Are you one?

The people who benefit from AI the most need you to THINK that it's inevitable in order to make their money

You're all wonderful, and I want you to know that.

I know a lot of people are still mourning the breakup of their toxic relationships with the Hellpit Formerly Known As Twitter, but it's time to move on. And in…

World War I trench warfare transformed many green bucolic landscapes to barren crater-pocked vistas resembling the surface of the moon. Concentrations of heavy…

Data centres pose an existential risk to our fragile water systems in Australia.

Meanwhile, in Australia, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will hand down its report on December 18. No, we have not seen the report…

This photo of Rev. Edward Nalwamba, 78, unable to walk after 13 months of ICE detention, being carried by two fellow detainees who were also released…

A response to Aaron Parecki's response: on the false dichotomy of rewriting with Claude or shutting down, why 'understanding matters more than tools' severs…

Subsea internet cables carry 99 percent of transoceanic digital traffic.1 Financial transactions, diplomatic communications, military data, and the mundane…

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a new online space called quxnet when its creator reached out to me. I was a little skeptical at first (as any person with…

Yep it’s quite true. If you are just going to host one or two things, you could get away with a Raspberry Pi, but I have about 40+ containers running, and I…

[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…

It’s been a while since I last discussed my devices: the last deep dive was back in 2019, and a lot has changed since. So, it is time for a refresh, and to…

This morning, two critical PHP Security Advisories were published: RCE via OOM corruption (9.2/10) RCE via stale global state (9.2/10) If you're running PHP…

I get a lot of packages, so I sit staring at the Fedex tracking page a lot. They recently redesigned it (to become more “mobile first”, I guess — just a couple…

My laptop isn’t just a tool - it’s my deck. I live for tweaking it, making it run and look exactly how I need it to. Function and form, on my terms.

I freaking LOVE keyboard shortcuts because I’m lazy they’re so efficient and a little effort to build muscle memory pays off big time… until it doesn’t!

During my college days, back when I had to come up with headlines for our newspaper, we used the AP Stylebook. I roughly remember that words that don’t have…

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.

In praise of amateurism

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…