Bubbles Weekly

There is something striking about looking at a photograph of a teenager from the 1970s. The confidence, the color, the sheer audacity of what they chose to…

I'm not quite sure what to do with these amateurish scribbles. Mostly, they sit between the cheap pages of cheaply made drawing pads. I mean, am I going to…

Everything is a racket these days

Apparently people take "don't speak ill of the dead" seriously

Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers' motivation in exchange for your…

Removing some YouTube channels and other things from my sight.

Lambeth Palace is a magnificent example of living history. For over 800 years it has been the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London and continues to…

I hate typos. Everybody does, but I think it occurs to me way too much. It only gets worse because english is not my first language, but I’m a failure in…

I saw a funny post earlier today where someone on twitter wondered what non-religious people do when they’re in despair. The OP asks where they go when they’re…

Yesterday at some point at work I just reached my limit. I got up, left the office, took a nap at home, and reconsidered how to start scheduling myself out of…

I read a company-wide announcement yesterday congratulating us on delivering something hard we’ve been working on for months. As I was reading it, I started…

My weight and my attempts to exercise have been mentioned here many times. I am more than happy to hear constructive comments and suggestions, but bear in mind…

Trying to figure out the role my smartphone plays in my life.

I've started using Foqos to block social media on the weekends and it's been really nice! It's good to try and keep my screentime down and when you're messing…

Nobody really talks about radio anymore. And by "nobody", I mean people my age. Speaking of people my age, I've been noticing this uptick in content about…

I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before it's due to…

my acquaintances are talking about how ai is going to take our jobs. i am applying to different positions, and looking around, most of the job openings are for…

There was once a potato who could not go without eating chips. ‘Oh, what does that make me, Mother? A monster’? He trembled at the truth of it. ‘Who knows’,…

I saw how NPR had a segment discussing, "The worrisome return of the R-Word," late last month. It is a good listen and only 14 minutes long. The general idea…

One of the other librarians emailed this morning asking if the rest of us had gotten an email from an outfit called Librar Labs. We hadn't, but I looked them…

William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Morning Journal in 1895 - and immediately started running stories designed to make his readers furious before…

I had a meeting with a local elected official today, which I had requested to discuss a specific issue. We got chitchatting about some other, unrelated local…

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web…

Use sticky notes on your BearBlog. Copy and paste to your BearBlog settings to use.

I’ve spotted this in a couple of places over the last few weeks and find it an interesting approach. You post a bit of JSON script on your site, and then…

Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan's short and excellent post called I've…

Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at…

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica: The block seemed curious, given that Reddit began as a website, and websites generally want traffic. Few are in the practice of…

Some years ago I learned about security.txt, a proposed document that could be added to a website to let security researchers know who to contact in the event…

In 2025, several European governments began phasing out Microsoft 365 due to concerns over the US CLOUD Act. Switzerland is the latest to act, declaring most…

My favourite way to discover new things is by other people. I don’t want to find my next game through an algorithm that looks at what I’ve played and what…

On the 27th December 2015 I ditched Windows for Linux - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (“Trusty Tahr”). I acted on impulse. I wrote a short post at the time to mark the…

In addition to moving off streaming last week, I also moved our not so old family PC to Linux. Apple Music was the last remaining indispensable proprietary…

it's Device Talk Time here on the ol' bloggeroo

As I continue to get off Apple's ecosystem from removing my data off iCloud and moving to Linux, today was a big day, I sold my Apple hardware. Apple is not…

Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs [T]he controversial law establishes that a user is considered to be…

This past month, I did not buy anything from Amazon or Ebay... and I saved some money doing it. Fortunately, I have a good salary, but I still do not want to…

Ok, that's it. I'm officially off GitHub. First I moved all of my private repos to my Synology, which was extremely easy to do. I did that around a week or so…

A few days ago, I watched a retro buyers’ guide for iPods. I was considering an iPod Nano 7 as an offline music player with Bluetooth capabilities with no…

Yesterday, I switched my website from RSS feeds to Atom feeds. In case you are wondering whether you have somehow landed on an ancient post from 2010, no, you…

YouTube recommended me a segment from Cal Newport’s podcast lately with five rules for combating brain rot.[1] Here’s a quick summary with some comments, minus…