Bubbles Weekly

Enough of "just blog queen!" slop

AI flooded the internet. Google broke search. Company poisoned the river. Pharma knew, shipped anyway. Parliament voted. Fairy tales. A man did every one of…

Big tech social media, Mastodon, blogs. They all have inherited from the libertarian culture of the internet. And I'm tired of it.

A mind-shattering concept from a first-year university class that upended how I think about humanity. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael trilogy argues that totalitarian…

Go ahead, tell me I am over-reacting.

I think I've been playing video games wrong my whole life. But I also think a lot of other people have too. I worry that the industry's relentless march…

I've gotten both a baby and now a teen cardinal on my lifer list, I'm so stoked lmao

Dear Self, You visit Bubbles every day, and with good reason. You are finding new voices, interesting sites, and realising that the internet you loved all…

I stand in my kitchen, with the hum of the kettle boiling, and inevitably I glance at the windows of the apartment across. Bright in the morning sun, their…

I shared some thoughts earlier about building Moments. In simple terms, it’s like Bear Blog, but focused on photos. I expected a handful of people to get it.…

Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it…

Thoughts on staying cool and collective or structural changes.

Pretty grim day of news in the industry today, with Salma Alam-Naylor stepping away from developer relations work permanently, Josh Comeau taking a sabbatical…

I got in this argument with my mother in February: We live in Toronto. Toronto is a city that does one particular thing very well. It is great at delivering a…

Since late last year I have been slowly (very slowly) removing digital artefacts from a few places in my life. It partly goes hand in hand with the death plan…

Angine de Poitrine in May 2026 at the Great Escape by Pauil Hudson. (Via WikiMedia — License: CC BY 4.0) This morning I installed a music player that I am…

The papers are burying the lede on the story of SCOTUS ruling in favor of birthright citizenship.  The headline should not be that it survived, it should be…

I’m obsessed with this “laptop” our 7 year old made: I asked him what the different features were. Check out these specs: He just whipped this together on a…

I try to do my best with my technology stack, by ensuring they meet my own morals and standards for life. I do this via a combination of informed choices;…

Semantic HTML is interface infrastructure: native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before…

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. 2001: The Family Computer 3. 2004: Exploring the Web 4. 2007: Living There 5. 2012: When Everything Started Changing 6.…

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

I said goodbye to Google yesterday. I’ve had Gmail accounts for as long as I can remember (at least since 2008ish, as I was heading off to college) and it…

I use my keyboards a lot, my job as a software engineer involves quite a lot of typing, I also spend quite a lot of my spare time in front of a computer. I’ve…

There is so much more to the internet than your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and chat GPTs. And these things are not known by the general masses, not…

A three-rule recipe for not hating myself: keep changing, practice gratitude, and punch Nazis. Here's what rule three actually means.

I'm getting really sick of this platform.

Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and…

I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project…

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at a Meta town hall reported by Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen at Reuters: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of…

It keeps happening. I can't control it. Sometimes, I feel nostalgic for some old piece of tech, and before I know what's happening, I'm already browsing eBay…

It's a rainy day today so I got my geek on. I can now add a comment box at the bottom of my posts. Comment sections aren't for everyone, but either are…

Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s Build conference this year: Perhaps the most important design criteria for us is: ‘how do we earn the permission from the…

Welcome to the introduction of what is a new approach to productivity that you've never come across before. An approach that will bring instant relief to those…

Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor. A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration…

I am living under a rock!

Claude Code was caught hiding data in its own prompts. A plain-English look at what Anthropic did and why it breaks trust.

I started my day checking the headlines on news sites and saw an interesting title that caught my eye because it's about CSS. These posts are generally…

Some people take this idea further, with 36 key keyboards that eschew the outer most column of keys to reduce the burden on the pinkies. There are tricks to…

You don't have to have a blog like me. You just need to blog. Blog blog blog. Blog possibly should not be used as a verb, as I blog about here.

Let's do some Julyreply shall we??

The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of…

Every time I tell someone new that I'm a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: "So, what do you think about AI?" This question has been…

This blog is written in en-GBby Terence EdenTerrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British language and that, no, he won't be making…

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“Hate is a strong word”, my mother used to say. The irony of my choice of post title isn’t lost on me. Here I am writing about the dangers of reducing the…