Bubbles Weekly

Just wanted to share some pictures of the cool signs I’ve taken not far from where I live It always makes me smile to walk past these. I do love...

My experiences with misogyny as a woman blogger.

The first thing AI teaches you about coding is confidence. The second is why that's a problem. Let's talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

What is behind the phenomenon of "PS5 has no games" memes?

I may use Russian words for places in this article, this simply reflects both the history (Ukraine was part of the USSR at this point in history) and the fact…

Saving information isn’t the same as learning it—that’s the Collector’s Fallacy. The shift happens when you stop collecting and start thinking, turning ideas…

Forty years is a long time, and I am guessing that some of you were not even born all those years ago. For me, this year is my fortieth with technology. Hard…

We all love to travel, especially after the advent of social media, where drone shots make us believe we could stand in that exact frame ourselves. Travel has…

I grew up tromping around the woods of upper lower Michigan. I am one of the few people I know who would not starve to death if dropped into the middle of said…

I happened upon this post from David when browsing Bubbles and thought it was an interesting question, so I figured I chime in. Who knows that I blog? Of the…

I recently watched a video of a woman in Louisiana crying because she can no longer afford her insulin. Between sobs, she blamed "handouts" to poor people and…

I did it! In April, I did one month of daily blogging, one new post per day. Usually I put all my blogging thoughts into the thought-log, but I think a…

This week was King’s Day here in The Netherlands, where the whole country unites as a gigantic flea market. I took some photos here in Eindhoven during that…

This is not really a wordvomit, but an old post from an old blog of mine that is no more. It was originally published on 2022-10-29. I've cleaned it up a bit…

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others -…

I have officially made it to Linux. It's now my desktop of choice 99.9% of the time.

Note: As I was writing this I became aware of an even better project covering much the same ground in a more detailed way - I Left Port 22 Open...

Back in the early 90s I bought Pearl Jam’s ‘Vs’ on CD. It was a great album that I’ve listened to regularly ever since. I know subscriptions for all of our…

I got a call at 11:03 PM last year. A client. Panic in his voice. His website was showing a phishing page in Chinese. Every URL redirected to a fake login…

An interview with Benjamin Behnke, the creator of Bubbles.town, a community-driven aggregator for independent personal blogs. After controversy on Mastodon and…

I found out about human.json so I added it to my page. I thought it was rather interesting idea, and might as well participate to it. I do not plan to use…

If you followed along with the recent joyful celebrations of the Artemis cruise around the moon, and took a moment to dive into the photographic archives of…

You've put a lot of effort into writing your content. Don't rely on your blog provider to take backups for you.

Who knows that you blog?by David JamiesonDavid talks about his reluctance to share details about his blog with a colleague, and asks whether other people with…

Bubbles is a fantastic new service which aims to help users discover fresh IndieWeb content.

A review of my experience with _Bitwarden_ after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.

I consider myself a decisive person, though I do have my weaknesses. Major purchases, like electronic devices, are always a soap opera. The Apple Watch one…

I’ve always been quietly impressed by those who can grasp an idea, hold it deeply, and communicate it clearly to others, building the passion they have for…

Typing a long password when you need to log in or get sudo privileges is annoying. Yubikeys can make it easier.

A personal plea from me to you to write your own comments. On the genAI plague of LinkedIn, Meta ads, and Medium, and the human warmth of the IndieWeb. From…

One of my personal rules for social media is that I only use the web version of sites. The web version is better for privacy, far less addictive, and makes my…

I have used RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) as my default web browser (for some stuff) for ages now. Ages as in “20+ years”. It seems to be enjoying a bit of…

As I wrote recently, I Love Bubbles. The new blog post aggregator (based on the RSS feeds of a curated list of blogs) has become part of my morning routine:…

TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard. GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that…

I was sad today! I love discovering, and reading new, personal blogs. I'm always interested in people and opinions. Imagine my sadness when I stumbled onto a…

a love letter to the personal website

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