Bubbles Weekly

Meet SadBot :) The crappiest chatbot you'll talk to in 2026, but the most authentic one. I built him in 2020 when I was 10 years old, back when AI chatbots…

It was pretty clear this day was coming — her health had been failing and she had missed several high profile appearances — but this doesn’t make today any…

Luckily, it could not be simpler to fix.

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes &…

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd…

Six months ago I bought an EV. It's been a great experience and I've learned a lot. Or, more accurately, I've unlearned a lot.

Yeah, this kinda sucks

I received another Postcard From The Internet; this one's written on a very unusual medium, and that's not the only thing that's odd about it... another thing…

Uncle Iroh was on to something.

AI Forever Work Woes Continue Unabated

My discomfort triggers my negative self-talk.

The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto You don’t need a deal with a label. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. All you need is an out of tune guitar you can barely…

I have been writing consistently here for a year now. You can go back a year and find one essay published every single day without fail. I have broken a lot of…

A diary study followed 29 research and development engineers through their working days. The finding that stuck with me: urgency predicted task completion far…

Responding to anonymous blogger Unstory's claim that love is a fake story and does not exist, I argue that love is a real, measurable, and physical fact of…

The Bridge Over “Content Marketing” Bulls*** Introduction I went down a rabbit hole recently, or at least I tried to. I found it difficult to come up with…

Yesterday, I finally removed the last vestige of Microsoft cruft from my life: Windows 10. For the last two years, I have been slowly decoupling myself from…

Portuguese Some blogs are ugly. Fact. But there's nothing wrong with that! Our blogs are forms of expression, from the text to the appearance. Sometimes, some…

For a long time I thought it’d be nice if there was a simple way for people to interact with my posts. When you write something it’s nice to know that someone…

Announcing a new open-source, asynchronous Blogging Studies syllabus that blends writing craft and independent web publishing, built on Codeberg. I trace the…

Gemini is a small Internet protocol for people who want reading, linking, and publishing without dragging the whole modern web along with it.

You can now hide posts by keyword 🙈 Recently Brennan wrote about [four months of using Bubbles](https://brennan.day/bubbles-town-four-months-later/), thanks…

The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which…

Back in 2006, adding vanity nameservers to my personal domains was just something I did as a matter of course, but - like most of the Internet - I don't bother…

This website is, in some sense, an open call for everyone out there: “this is what I think and this is what I do, let’s connect!” This requires setting up…

I feel an immense sadness. I’m grieving the loss of a pillar of my self-identity: my career as a software developer. Although I’m not sure if this grief is…

I love my RSS reader. It's the first thing I reach for when I'm "catching up." As I'm reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts…

Old software often feels better because it was smaller, more direct, and less interested in managing the user.

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately…

My gym locker requires me to have a small lock, that I carry in my backpack. After (presumably) leaving the lock unlocked in my backpack and it shuffling…

Here is a dialog from the movie Office Space — and just to be clear; Michael Bolton in the movie are talking about Michael Bolton the singer. And this made me…

If Curiosity Killed the Cat ( so we’re told, by who, I have no idea) then curiosity for me, as a child and adult alike, enriched my life and made...

a tour of creating a family reading culture In the Netherlands, many families are in possession of magnificent ceiling-tall bookshelves — a practice I always…

In the country of the blind, goes the proverb, the one-eyed man is king.In his 1904 short story "The Country of the Blind" H.G. Wells writes of a sighted man…