Bubbles Weekly

Mice, noses and even a lost mitten. These are London's smallest sculptures and each tiny artwork has a brilliant story behind it... The post London’s Smallest…

What once passed as harmless advertising now feels loaded with hidden meaning. Vintage ads, comic books, greeting cards, and mail-order catalogs often…

It’s strange what information school decides is important. Because somehow I spent years learning about wars, several presidents with identical facial hair,…

I've been trying to use [[https://lemmy.ml/][Lemmy]] more and more to replace Reddit. I like the UI a lot and I've subbed to a ton of varied subs. However,…

In July 2016, Peter Thiel walked onto the stage at the Republican National Convention and told the crowd three things. First: “I build things.” Second: “I’m…

This article was originally drafted in 2024 but I struggled to finish it then. I was stuck wondering if I was just moaning over the past. Recently, Salma and…

My battery is low and it's getting dark.

School has finished, but I won't start my Summer job for another week or so, so I haven't had much to do. I've found myself replaying The Legend of Zelda:…

Me on social media last week: Sorry gang, I gotta go a little deeper here on this thought. The inciting incident for the above is due to a story I saw going…

In 2021, my Canadian friend Peter Rukavina sent me a sample of his letterpress printing work that also acted as the official membership card of The Pen &…

i feel the sense of community here on bearblog. i was thinking of why that is, and one of the reasons is that sometimes, people upvote my posts. it is not…

I’m hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival and I invited everyone with a blog to write a love letter to something or someone they care about. In the turbulent…

Hello. Good morning. It's Monday, and I am sitting in my office figuring out what I want to do today—experiments, data analysis, or computer modelling. I am…

Bubbles on the Fediverse 🦣 You might already know that every new article on Bubbles is also posted on the Fediverse by the…

I got tired of Google treating my search history like a diary it owned. So I built my own private search engine. Here is how, and why you might want to do the…

I host most of my websites on a DreamHost VPS. This morning I discovered that a new file had been added, agents.txt, to the root of each site, on May 7. It was…

There are many like it, but this one is mine

Let me share a very silly story from roughly 18 years ago! In 2008, I joined RSA, the network security company named after the initials of the inventors of the…

I should start by saying that Kagi is a paid product. For those who want to look at what other search engines are out there, Startpage and DuckDuckGo both…

It looks like the end for Lineage OS on Samsung handsets, at least in the UK. Here's why.

A little bit of philosophy to get through the tough spots...

I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do…

If you have ever spoken to me, you may have heard me express a meandering interest in doing something with audio. I think the heart of this interest is that I…

You may already be familiar with the mythical Library of Babel, but if you're not then allow me the honor of introducing it to you! The Library of Babel is a…