Bubbles Weekly

Perception of color, a fascinating idea — evident by last year’s IndieWeb blog carnival theme I hosted. This fascination is seeded by personal need to…

Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines

In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them. It is wild just how confusing and complex buying a ticket…

Throughout my life, I've ran across three movies that I just could not understand the appeal of: 1. The Big Lebowski 2. The Lord of the Rings Franchise 3.…

A yearbook page from the 1970s rarely looks like a fashion statement at first glance, yet look closer and the hemlines tell their own story. Row after row of…

Considering how much anything costs right now, I realized I can afford nothing. Well, what's a girl to do? Use older tech and forget about the modern world is…

So... I wanted to describe a situation I came across on the BR side of Bear, but some men here are, for lack of a better term, weirdos. This is a topic that…

"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you." ~ Octavia E. Butler I have not written on this blog for many months now. Just couldn’t bring…

My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.

This time it’ll be different, they say. This time it’ll be about the people, they say. This time it’ll be a change for the better, they say. This time the…

Replying to the Absurd Pirate's post.

Stop Looking for Productivity Hacks. Pick Up a Damn Book.

On this day two years ago, either my wife or I took a photo of some tally marks so we wouldn't forget the number: What were we counting? We forgot.

Camera focus adventures with a super rad insect

I really don’t want to become a stubborn old man. For multiple reasons! First being that I don’t want to become an annoying bummer to be around. Nobody wants…

A retro-styled wristwatch, a Timex T-80 Digital watch, Pelikan, Waterman and Conklin Fountain Pens. I've posited elsewhere that I have become something of a…

From Seth Rutledge on Mastodon:Here is your periodic reminder that the ONLY thing you need to do to be a musician is to make music. The ONLY thing you need to…

I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!

The #WSocial mess is about more than one failed platform, it exposes a deeper problem with the EU’s approach to digital sovereignty. If Europe is serious about…

The big story is Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Florida on charges of rape and sex trafficking: LONDON – Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother…

I found grumpywelshman this week, via https://bubbles.town – a good place to go to read somewhat interesting things. His stuff is very funny, an acidic…

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

I just came across the Done by Humans “movement,” which appears to similar to not by AI: both offer badges to display proudly on your human-made website after…

I'm supposed to be on a LinkedIn hiatus but I shamefully visited it yesterday to pimp a blog post (a largely pointless exercise, as it turns out). While I was…

Responding to Adam Newbold's 'Hardcore IndieWeb' guide, I argue for a ladder approach to joining the IndieWeb. Rather than choosing between easy platforms and…

This spring E took down her WordPress blog and replaced it with a static website. In the past weeks she did the same for her business website (and added her…

My one weird trick to make new friends and discover new worlds.

Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?, and found myself…

Saw this on HN this morning: Em dashes are fucking amazing. Excerpt: I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a…

You've probably run into some Obsidian evangelist espousing some convoluted system of organizing all their notes, and building some knowledge base. Heck, I was…

OverpAId is not coming for the people who do the actual work. It is coming, with extreme prejudice, for exactly one category of job: the one that spent the…

There’s been some changes to Marginalia Search: Migrated to systemd from docker New unranked query endpoint Wide domains got their own index for faster crawls…

Done By HumansQuoting from their website:We envision a future where human-made work is clearly recognizable, universally understood, and meaningfully valued.As…

Earlier this month, I talked about a rotation button in photos that behaved really nicely in iOS, and not so great on the Nothing Phone. Here’s a story of a…

PT AI, androids,AI, androids, supercomputers, we’ve all seen them in fiction. In spy and superhero movies with their AI assistants, or in video gameswith their…