Bubbles Weekly

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Trading zines and returning to pocket notebooks.

So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of…

I encountered a proposition that form and style are the aspects of writing that an LLM cannot mimic, thus human writers may start innovating on form as a way…

Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited with inventing the telephone, in 1876. It’s not entirely undisputed: Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Johann Philipp…

I’ve never seen anything that tickled the gambler in me like this game. My best score is 0.14% (yet) Update: I just hit 0.04%.

"You wake up one day and find it's all been a dream..."

Junited 2026 is here. Share the blog posts and bloggers you love throughout June — no rules, no pressure, just good old-fashioned blog appreciation.

We are attempting to lure pollinators to our balcony (yes, so that I can photograph them...) and as part of this scheme, we built a "bee bath" out of a plant…

A personal reflection on aphantasia, the “other senses of the mind,” and what it means to remember without seeing. The post explores inner speech, memory,…

I recently read I oppose marijuana legalization — on libertarian grounds by Jim Grey, and it has truly been living rent free in my head ever since. Not only do…

Two years ago I wrote a super simple todo package for Emacs to see whether I could get over my tendency to 1) procrastinate a lot and 2) being annoyed at my…

Today, somebody who's running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that competes with…

I was inspired to create this list by recent conversations and questions I've seen on Mastodon. More and more people are sharing and asking about blog…

I've remained subscribed to some newsletters for over 20 years. The authors managed to keep my attention all that time. But then, one day, they decided to…

Imagine a wiki that is just a single HTML file. One that you can deploy anywhere: view locally, share in local network, put in any web server. No databases, no…

Till my late twenties (now I am in my early thirties) I used to listen to music regularly. During my teen years it was on a bulky cassette player or a Walkman,…

I love Jellyfin. I've talked about it here on The Review many times. Before I was a Jellyfin user, though, I was a Plex guy. See, I've never been keen on…

I recently tried Vivaldi browser and noticed my website’s colors looked wrong. Vivaldi’s (or any Chrome-based browser) aggressive color management adjusts CSS…

I have several ideas swirling around for projects I would like to see happen. Sometimes, these ideas manifest as a project. Wonders of Web Weaving was inspired…

Gordon’s note caught my attention, then I disagreed with most of his points. Here are my thoughts on his five minor peeves with “many websites.” Comments are…

The two essays Simon links to are interesting, and I really like the video too, a calm, thoughtful format.

breakfast thinkingDoing my morning scan of my Mastodon timeline, I saw a post by someone saying that we should try to make the fact you're going to google…

In continuing to promote the “small web” of writers out there, I bumped into a site called Bubbles.town. It acknowledges the difficulty in discovering voices…

patience. that is a valuable skill that humanity is gradually losing the more technology "improves". thanks to the advent of tech products like social media,…

I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell…

I met a man today. A stranger. I spoke to him.

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroomDevelopmental Neuroscience…