Bubbles Weekly

A list of books recommended to me when I asked for suggestions

Responding to Dan Q's post on blogging expectations, I argue that you don't need to blog at all to participate in the IndieWeb. Your website can be shrines,…

I'm bullish on AI, but I also feel this pull to leave tech behind entirely, and I've been struggling to figure out why. This is my attempt to crystallize my…

After Iceland, we traveled to Oslo, Norway. Summers can be hot in Atlanta, so we wanted to visit another country with cooler temps. Norway is amazing! So much…

Keep posting if you have something to say. Keep posting if you don’t know what to say. Keep posting if you agree with something. Keep posting if you disagree…

“Analog Maximalism” is another way to say “Digital Minimalism.” The point is to focus more on what you’re doing and less on what you’re trying to not be doing.…

Being on vacation always reignites my motivation to read books. I mostly read on my Kindle, but during this vacation I read an entire book on my phone. Because…

Almost a year ago, I decided to give blogging a try. I thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing my posts (I put a lot of effort into them), but seeing how…

Today I visited a refugee school that house 96 students. It is located in the poorer parts of the city. The school is right on top of a restaurant. They took…

Have you visited your local library lately? We absolutely love the Clark County Library. I don’t know what we’d do without it.

There Is No "Exposure" Worth My Time

I got a little bit riled up the other day, and I realized that it might be worth sharing because the thing that riled me is a longstanding pattern in academia…

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss. There…

NASA has released a new 3D model of the Earth’s gravitational field. “The geoid is an equipotential surface that can be thought of as the shape an ocean…

For better or for worse the things you create with LLMs are your responsibility, just like with any other tool.

I want to leave the internet. This site, reddit, my banking app, the cloud service, Youtube, my music streaming app, my email, Whatsapp, iNaturalist,…

Responding to Coyote's critique of Bubbles.town and feed aggregators, I argue that the IndieWeb needs more interlinkers—bloggers who meaningfully synthesize…

There are currently thousands of repositories on GitHub that are spreading viruses. Any of you can find these repositories, and you don’t need any special…

There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry. It reports about LG’s latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to…

♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS Put the badge on your homepage and submit your URL. Once we’ve checked the link back and found your feed, you’re on…

Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of…

I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers, is now available! You can check out the release site here or go directly to buy the ebook or…

By Tom Moertel Posted on July 27, 2026 Tags: code, comments, clean code, good code, nature of code, purpose of code, source code, definitions, theory,…

"Thank you for using RSS." "I love RSS." A badge in the footer. A little heart, a blogroll. Community. Belonging. I love TCP/IP. I love HTTP 1.1. I love DNS…

Around 2 billion people access the internet exclusively via smartphones, yet the IndieWeb community largely neglects mobile-first design and phoneblogging UX.…

Back in February, I discovered Pure Blog, and it has stayed in a corner of my head since then. A few days ago, I installed it locally and gave it a try. Long…

I recently saw complaints about Google’s search engine crawler taking down websites by sending them too much traffic:We had googlebot blast a random customer…

Ron Charles tells us that British singer and songwriter Dua Lipa has created a collection of banned books — called The Manifesto Library. It’s in Portugal. The…

Last Sunday, I wrote a post calling out Robert Birming's repetitive writing. The post gained traction, receiving around 85 toasts before it got…