Bubbles Weekly

On June 11th, PetaPixel published a post entitled Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras by Jaron Schneider, which had an intriguing premise but fell a bit…

The older child totoro doesn't get enough attention. Here it is, hopelessly kawaii holding a leaf umbrella. The post Totoro Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp appeared…

Thoughts following Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger. Had forgotten this one in the drafts of my notes app.

The mirage of "AI" reaches us through a narrative centered on inevitability, productivity, and efficiency. It is therefore at loggerheads with the values of a…

The European Commission has moved its profiles to W Social. That's a terrible decision.

🚫 Regrettably you have been locked out of diamond geezer pending age verification protocols. You may be UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE and therefore you must not read…

Burst is a bubble shooter game for iPhone with zero ads, no tracking, and no in-app purchases. It has power-ups, six coding-inspired themes, Game Center…

Decades before smartphones turned every traveler into a documentarian, a single American academic carried his camera through some of the most closed cities on…

It has been two days since I posted about the release of Town Square, and I thought it would be nice to write a quick report. My post got automatically posted…

I've been scrolling the Bubbles new feed for a few weeks now. I think of it like trolling[1] for good feeds. This is a pretty high-volume feed so I can't click…

Nice, quirky web projects are always a joy to stumble upon. I recently came across Daniel Janus’s old handwritten.blog which is (or would have been anyway) a…

I recently learned about this fantastic project where visitors are able to "chat" with one another in a fun and private way. I had to try it! So now, at the…

A short update on Town Square after launch: the map is live, new features keep emerging from people enjoying it, and the best part has been seeing how much the…

Here are 20 steps that I reconned somewhere on the internet. Even though I called them "steps," order of execution does not matter. Take yourself out for…

Yesterday I posted this on Mastodon (post link) I'm building a new habit here on Mastodon: instead of liking, I try to reply to at least 3 posts, especially on…

the opportunity in feeling overwhelmed

Hakkerman over at HakkerBlog doesn’t want to buy you coffee. Coffee here refers to the “Buy Me a Coffee” or “Ko‑Fi” buttons you might have seen around in other…

I wear my favorite perfumes and body sprays at home. I used to try to save them for when I went out on a nice date or attended an upscale Event, then I…

I get it - it's hard to see good things happening in the world today. Hard not to be cynical about the world, about people, and about our future as a species.…

I’ve recently been looking around for some place that isn’t Instagram, isn’t Flickr, but is a quiet place to share some of (what I consider) my better photos.…

When I started my current job, the first couple of weeks were similar to most other places. HR induction, reams of information, sources, names, services, all…

Have you ever wondered how best to summarise your character as a member of the blogging community? If so, this quiz is for you! Answer the following questions…

At last, I am rich!! The Coffee Saga has paid off. Thanks Manuel for the donation who, in his own words, “Donated because your post about donation was nice and…

TW: we're getting kinda close to the topic of depression, but not quite just yet

Writing publicly and frequently for the past seven months has saved my life. Six ways consistent public writing transformed me: cultivating curiosity, building…

Shibuya and Harajuku can be quite a crowded placed to visit, and so I welcome any opportunity for a coffee in a more quiet place. Enter BAGGAGE COFFEE - a…

If you were wondering why there was a huge uptick in coffe related posts, well I had a opinion... And people had opinions about it... Like a lot of opinions.…

An ongoing tribute to someone who, objectively, was the best cat there ever was

On Wednesday, President Trump threatened to block the extension of the surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA,…

Today the UK Government announced an "under-16 social media ban". Whilst I have previously complained about the Online Safety Act, largely due to its poor…

A little love letter to the small web, to the now classic technology of RSS, to the future of atproto, and to the people who share for the joy of sharing.

Link: https://derekhanson.blog/nobody-clicks-your-share-buttons/(Via rendezvous with cassidoo.)I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing…

A $69 e-ink reader changed my reading habit by sitting in my pocket ahead of my phone. On single-use devices, free epub sources, and actually reading more.

You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore

I have a hypothesis that Linux and EVs have a similar characteristic: Once you switch, you’ll never want to go back. Nathan Edwards in The Verge: It didn’t…

Bubbles —a site I am increasingly fond of as it’s turning up some wonderful posts and sites and people— was recently mentioned on Hackernews. I’ve followed…

Bubbles: functions a bit like Hacker News but specifically for personal blogs. You log in with a Mastodon or Fediverse account, upvote posts you like, and…

FileZilla is still a robust, powerful FTP/SFTP app after 24 years. It still impresses me.

Ever since I got my first mechanical keyboard, I’ve been able to turn caps lock, one of the most useless functions on a keyboard, into something actually…

Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo,…

I was more than a little interested with flags as a kid. I loved learning about the history of their designs, what they represented, their aesthetics, and how…

Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago. It was about client side JavaScript to automatically (albeit blindly)…

Many file formats are suitable for representing e-books, but most are complex, and many are proprietary. This article puts forward a proposal for a new format,…

Ticker tape, as such, has been defunct for more than 50 years. The machines were a form of telegraph connected to printers: since they wasn’t carrying general…

Welp, I'm doing it. I'm canceling my Pinboard subscription. I've actually been a Pinboard customer for a very long time. I found Pinboard way back in 2010 when…

Democracy Design Lab asked Sarah Mirk to adapt Hamilton Nolan’s essay, Confiscate Their Money. They made the resulting zine available as a PDF to download,…

It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny,…

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

I was very late to the Markdown side of things, however text files were always my jam, certainly professionally (there is not a callcenter agent in the world…

In late March, I wrote that I'd acquired a tiny, nearly credit-card-sized e-reader and had been regularly using it. I still am! Several months later, it…

This TIL post is basically an update to my three year old post “Hugo, meet Android”. I recently got a new phone and thus had to re-do the setup of my mobile…

Don't worry, this post is not about zits, but something comparably annoying: Zen and Zed. One is a browser and the other an editor. Even writing this, I don't…

A few weeks ago I called out a scammer after they asked me to advertise their free deed poll service (which is like mine... except it harvests personal…

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and…

Roundup of links including writing, the web, and writing on the web

Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my…

i mostly wanted to reply to this one to make the title joke :Panyways, there was a post here that discusses blog post titles and boy do i have thoughtsfirst…

Realization over Coffee

A reply to Michael Harley's post, "Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?".