Bubbles Weekly

Last year I picked up a Kodak Retina IIa, part of Kodak’s popular folding camera line up. It’s got a few features like a frame counter and a rangefinder, but…

I got a question about my sketchbook pages recently, and decided to post my answer. I use Procreate to draw my daily drawings, and each month I use a new…

As long as you've prepared for the challenge ahead, try to be relentlessly optimistic about your chances of success. There's no downside to absolute belief in…

The saying extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence can be a guardian against being mislead, but only when one recognizes a claim as being…

I discovered unstory recently after nosing around Bubbles. I've read a handful of his/her posts now and Jesus Christ, I hope I don't end up as miserable and…

A review for a game you should know nothing about. Seriously, just play it and then come back and gush about it all you want with me!

For as long as I can remember, I've always had trouble "making" friends.Now that's not to suggest that I don't have friends, as I'm pretty sure I do (maybe not…

There have been various blog posts and social media posts in the last couple of years about people rejecting streaming services and going back to buying music,…

I’ve been into photography for a very long time. After using fixed-roll throwaway cameras, I got my first digital one in the early 2000s. Soon after, I got…

Like so many, I'm spending too much time on my smartphone. While I have reduced my smartphone use drastically, all thanks to a life without social media and a…

I wonder when "people" will realise that taking videos (and photos) on your mobile device should be done in wide mode, rather than tall. So many News websites…

Putting a few photos on a new service is easy. Trusting it with years of your life is different. A while ago, someone who had bought a Lifetime Founder plan…

...are always bullshit.

This post is entirely inspired by  1. Rachel Maksy’s video she posted yesterday:  [YouTube embed] 1.  my complete ineptitude to do a new to me yarn craft:…

But what a privilege it is to read your code. I like that I can tell how it was worked out, with the occasional detritus of paths that were started and…

I feel like one of the Chosen Ones, picked to go on a quest, or something esoteric, finding myself over on a very new website whose sole purpose is to...

As I have mentioned, I rarely see things completely one way or another. Whether we like it or not we are multitudes and nuance is always required. I can’t…

Save my Great Lakes from toponymical absurdity!

It’s not every day I read an email subject that makes my heart sink, only to find myself laughing out loud. Today I was told someone plagiarised my website!…

Thirteen years ago, it seems, a DVLA form processor decided that my name must have been a company name, and incorrectly registered my car's keeper as being a…

Manila has been in full swing thunderstorm/rainstorm season. Floods, lightning, roads closed, the full works.

We were walking back from grabbing a couple of beers together. It had been my suggestion, after reflecting that the friend group hadn't been hanging out as…

A rare sketch of the shy store manager at my favourite deli/cafe. The place was busy so she chipped in with barista duties. Here it is with watercolour:

The US slide into autocracy has been enabled at every step by pathetic tech executives that enthusiastically embraced a complete lack of ethics.

Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.

About a month ago, I wrote an article recommending that if you are going to have an always visible control for switching between light and dark mode, it should…

I like 1Password. I trust their technology. I do wish they'd made some different tech decisions, and some different business structure decisions - but as…

Ploum: “I don’t have a smartphone,” is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install…

Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker…

Photo by Miguel Ángel Padriñán Alba on Unsplash Introduction I wrote about hosted blog options1 a while back. Included in the options that I thought were…

A short while ago, there was a now-infamous incident over at OpenAI: One of their AI models, during security testing, escaped and launched an attack on…

human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as…

Chat GPT and Claude continue to drive down my blog traffic. How-to posts and technical coding posts have been on a downward slope since Gen AI has gotten more…

“They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building…

Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic.This book is a collection of short stories by the Polish…

Fun with HTTP headers.