Bubbles Weekly

Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of…

The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly…

How a kickboxer built an empire on male insecurity and called it freedom. Steve the Hypothetical Gerbil says: This one’s about Andrew Tate. There’s organised…

Bulls and bears agree the technology is real—they disagree on the clocks. Not whether AI is a bubble, but whether the payoff arrives before the financing runs…

I have a keen sense of smell. I smell things that other people apparently can’t. […] The post Where Have All The Good Smelling Men Gone? appeared first on…

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own…

Brace yourself. I'm writing this to people who care about the world's suffering and love animals, but haven't yet extended that same compassion to the animals…

This is my great-grandfather, born Dominusz Andor in Szeged, Hungary in 1886. In the picture he is in Brooklyn, New York, probably sometime in the early…

I don’t know if you play video games, but it’s likely you enjoy games in one form or another. Maybe you play a cozy game on your phone, a card game on your…

Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder

Why the Steam Deck is the best handheld I've ever owned: PSP emulation with RetroDeck and streaming my Xbox through Greenlight, all because it's an open Linux…

A scene keeps playing in my head. Over and over again.A man is riding his bicycle. He crosses the street and starts weaving right to left. He hits a pole and…

Notes from a burning Paris. People are dying – 55 people died in Paris alone in the past 24 hours. Festivals, school, gym classes are cancelled. Hundreds of…

She may well be correct, but let's have some context. I live on the outskirts of a small village, which has one road in. There's no out unless you want to…

10 years ago I woke up in a tent in Glastonbury and realised that the utterly unthinkable had happened. We spent the morning, we festival goers, wandering…

I can open a feed aggregator, click 20 random links, and close them one by one without reading a whole title. My brain does a fast check on the shape and…

Some tips on how to deal with hot weather.

In the UK, the hottest June day on record has been broken three days in a row. And it's not just the UK experiencing unprecedented levels of heat. France,…

Last night I deleted my Threads account. I have beenmostly avoiding Threads/BlueSky/Facebook for a while now but occasionally dip in to check… nothing of real…

Townsquare made it to the Hacker News front page, chaos followed, and the best part was seeing how much people genuinely enjoyed being together there.

Early morning musings about a huge part of my identity

For some reason my family has phenomenally crappy luck with Macbooks. Our second one in three years just died, right as my wife was needing to put together…

Natalie writes about being grateful to have many Little Free Library book-exchange boxes in her neighborhood. I am happy to be surrounded by such literary…

Joining part of the indieweb that feels like the best part of the old internet.

We stayed for 3 more days. It was already clear for everyone that they won't allow us to fly from this position, but the command still won't let us out. We…

Earlier this month, I discovered more Bear blogs that I haven't seen before via the platform's Random blog link feature. Compared to those found via the Random…

I had an interesting interaction these days. While I was in class waiting for it to start, I opened Bearblog (the class happens in the “computer room”), and…

It's day 2 of the UK heatwave and I have a few issues on my mind that I need to discuss. In the run up to this I was monitoring the discourse online about it…

This was never the plan. In fact, if you’d asked me at almost any point in my adult life where I saw myself ending up, I’d have confidently told you it…

How an enameled cast iron skillet just might make me a better man.

This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment their…

I spent months chasing the algorithm. Then I realized I’d stopped writing about the things I cared about.

John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile…

Communication is an important skill, stop delegating it to a machine

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers

I'm old enough to have seen the Internet become a thing. From the early days of simple emails and web pages, and squealing dial-up modems connecting to the…

I started a company in Germany in late January. By late June I had spent 9,600 euros, registered two companies, and still cannot issue a single invoice of my…

I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul…

I’ve been off social media for a while. I do dip into one of the platforms now and again, but my blog is where I do my posting. My online...

While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not…

It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to get a comfortable couch gaming experience.

Developers and nerds have seemed satisfied with Markdown as a plain text format for a long time.

Web browsers are not document viewers. They are customer acquisition channels for massive tech ecosystems. They don't serve users, but corporations. AI…

I got laid off

In my “Open sourcing a quiz maker” blog post, I frame my quiz maker as a step toward what could be something better: a script that you can use, but where I see…

If your blog doesn’t have an RSS feed, then it’s not a blog.

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s…

Today I have been trying to set up webmentions on my website. Brennan Kenneth Brown has a great article that goes through his process for setting up…

A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a…

Made an anonymous confession board that lives in your terminal. Go ahead and post your confession 🫶🏼 $ ssh eipi.boo

Almost nine years ago, I decided to write my own website generator. Static-site generators (SSGs) were sort of new back then, and somewhat fascinating to me.…

Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information:…

I just read an article on ExtremeTech that the new Windows Media Player uses 3.5x more RAM than its predecessor, and it now charges users for third party…

It has been a while since I have sat down and wrote a blog post that is not directly related to programming or self-hosting. If I look back to 2023 I used to…

Here ya go, folks — check it out here. Thanks to the aforementioned RAM and memory apocalypse happening due to so much of the current pipeline of RAM and…

One of my sporadic book reviews

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

Nolan Royalty (@eieio.games), writing without the assistance of generative AI, in a post entitled "Legibility of Effort": What software (and writing, to an…