Bubbles Weekly

I love drawing these dumb little things.One thing I never get tired of is making hand-drawn favicons for my side projects. I have an old iPad and Apple Pencil…

Someone accused me of using AI to write my Reddit comments a while back. Not because of what I said. Because of how I presented it. I'd used bold text. And…

Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence).…

I've marveled lately at the active surrendering of cognition to AI that I've witnessed. I watched a guy at work use ChatGPT to draft a four-sentence letter for…

What it says on the tin. Libraries are amazing. Never ever forget.

Can’t believe it’s time for another global top ten. To be honest, I’ve been loathe to do top tens. Why? Well, it’s a lot of [...] The post The Ramen Rater’s…

Stephen Totilo writes about what happened when Panic started prompting players who finished the games they published to send them a SASE #

The determination to move away from the addictive doom-scrolling of social media has given me pause, given me space to look around at how I use the internet…

Sometimes I am quite annoyed that I have lived my entire life in a digital age. Everyone around me has their heads in their screen. I can't really say much, I…

today at the library, a man was wearing my hat. i should clarify: he wasnt wearing the same hat as me; he was wearing The same hat, as in, my hat - a hat i had…

Thinking through how routines form, fall apart, and reshape themselves to fit a particular moment in time.

I’m an anxious and relentlessly creative person, which means I’m embarrassed a lot. I wish that people didn’t romanticize the term “creative,” because when I…

Didn't think I'd care to have a dining table until I got one

Talking about my balcony garden and this year's newest addition, a little Venus flytrap.

my neck/shoulder is still not 100% better but it has improved. in my own untrained amateur medical opinion, i think it's a pinched nerve in my neck or shoulder…

I’m sure a lot of people on here go through bouts of trying to be more productive. Thinking there has to be a winning method, a perfect app or something they…

A reflection about whimsy, shared mischief, and the need to make “dad lore” instead of letting time pass in a blur of carefulness, depression and…

Doomerism feels inescapable was the first post i read this morning. It's so true. I used to call myself a pessimist before college. Then in college, i felt a…

A 2-hour flight to the capital city for an early morning meeting at a government office… I showed up late to the airport booth. Passengers were already getting…

It is a slightly cold and damp autumnal day and I am in a park in Scotland, following my toddler discovering the wonders of trees, bushes and grass. Suddenly…

(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the…

One Month of Bubbles Bubbles turned one month old today. I launched it on March 21 with a short [Mastodon…

Introducing Bubbles Briefing 📰 Yesterday, Cesar Aguirre [published a short post](https://canro91.github.io/2026/04/21/Aggregators/?ref=bubbles.town) with a…

Two new RSS feeds 🫧 Two small additions. **Full content feed** [`/feed/full`](https://bubbles.town/feed/full) is a variant of `/feed/new` that also includes…

Part of the motivation behind some of my top-level pages like my ideas lists is that I feel some things should have a URL. Giving something a URL gives it a…

despite all their drawbacks, mobile phones are the only fully programmable camera systems available on the market, and that makes them extremely exciting to me…

It's 2026 and friction parity now approaches 1.All things considered, what does that mean? Well, I came up with this term a little while ago after talking…

Explore the smol web with Bubbles All Aggregators Are Equal but Some Aggregators Are More Equal Than Others Bubbles is a new, brilliant, blog aggregator.…

I’ve been making liberal use of planets since I did my last RSS cleanup, and have discovered dozens of new blogs and people in the process :). Many large…

I wanted to quickly highlight a new blog discovery platform I’ve just learned about called Bubbles. It uses a community voting system similar to sites like…

Why I Built Bubbles 🫧 I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New…

What the title says. Things that are considered to be good value for the money are honestly way too expensive, what happened to actually affordable prices in…

Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic’s website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put…

Any new way of interconnecting websites and users on the IndieWeb is not only welcome but also vital for a stable counterbalance to Big Tech’s shitty walled…

One thing I find myself doing quite often is that I’ll sit down to write a blog post about something that interests me or that I’ve been thinking about, and…

From The Art Of Not Asking Why: I discovered another person to follow this week, and as I reached out via email, I realized this had become somewhat of a habit…

I’ve been noticing, over the past month or two, that I’m not interested in much coming through on my feed reader. The discourse is exhausting. I’m tired of…

Delightful: (from the NYT's Metropolitan Diary) (h/t Eric Roston)