Bubbles Weekly

Introduction Sigh, I hadn’t wanted to jump in on this whole saga, but it seems that it’s about time that I got off my arse and said a few things. I’ve been…

Yes, I am on Reddit every day... I think I am addicted. But honestly, I think it is time for a detox program. There is still good content there, but it is…

In light of the recent push of social media bans and age verification, I talk about what I would have needed as a kid and teen online, and what the internet…

I’ve been away so missed this until today. I’ve read a few posts from this blog in the past few months. Originally I thought they were just being written to…

Responding to a blog post urging people to 'please learn how to write,' I pull rank with my English degree to argue there's no such thing as proper English.…

I don't believe anything coming out of frontier model CEOs mouths. Their stakes are extremely high, and they have incentives measured in $ trillions to lie,…

Medium.com went from a defiant anti-AI holdout—blocking GPTBot, rejecting a multimillion-dollar training deal, banning AI writing from monetization—to…

So many anarchist principles seems like they would “never work”… because they literally cannot under capitalism, but would work just fine under a different…

Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came across some emails we had passed back and…

A lot of my posts have been about reducing my use of technology and leading a more analog life. It's something I've been trying since Trump won the 2024…

I wanted to write about how it seems like the way we talk and engage online with people may focus on the wrong things sometimes

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Learning new things every day! (We're ok btw)

A bit of a story and some thoughts about why there seems to be a stigma against playing videogames in public for some of us!

I read a this post I found on bubbles.town about a guy who determined he was a better person without his phone. It got me thinking, how much do I use my phone?…

I don't like social media. I haven't been on it for decades. I tried Mastodon recently, but that didn't go too well. I do enjoy YouTube Shorts though - they're…

There’s one word no one’s ever used to describe me. Well, OK there are probably plenty. No one’s ever described me as ‘svelte’ or ‘pious’, after all. I’ve…

It was hot. 31C every day, which is survivable if you can navigate your way through shaded areas, a bit more of a challenge when you are sitting in a…

For once, I am writing about my oldest hobby for a bit, sharing what are my favourite models to fold by memory!

Revisiting my maladaptive daydream of waking up at twelve years old with all my present knowledge intact, I weigh the seductive fantasy of correcting every…

This is a follow up to my previous post: "Call out to BearBloggers - Have you experienced this?" So it turns out I'm not losing my mind, Toasts are being…

Our spine-y friend is back!

You shouldn't have a licenseContinue readingTo the mom in the white minivan who ran me off the road this morning in a school zone

I realised something when I woke up in a panic last night about my hospital visit today (update: the results were perfect): fear only works in absolutes. You…

Last week, on 9 September, Donald Trump promised that, if the Republicans retained their Congressional majorities in the November elections, he would send…

White people, and especially Americans, tend to hold some pretty weird beliefs. But top of the list may be the belief that we have a basic right to permanent…

Your phone is not the problem Jeff says that he is a better person without his phone. Widdershins says they’re the same with or without their phone. I think…

The underlying technology is good, but the implementation isn't there yet

In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review,…

A cool little project with pixels and personal websites.

I keep seeing people talk about herdr, so against my better judgment, I searched up tmux vs. herdr. Search hit: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all…

When I recently whined about modal editing feeling clunky, I think I was being impatient, as I’ve been hitting Vim and Neovim pretty hard lately and have not…

Creating your own corner of Geminispace: why you'd want to blog on a protocol with no JavaScript, no CSS, and no AI slop; where to host a capsule (SmolPub, the…

More proof that these companies knew what they were doing and did not care.

There are many, many reasons to be angry at the AI crowd. One of mine is that they took the term vibe coding – how else am I going to describe the flow state…

25 years ago, WordArt was everywhere. Nowadays, it's been quietly expunged from Microsoft Office. Except... Outlook, via a series of complicated hacks, can…

Gordon posted that he received an AI email the other day. Hey, me too: Figure 1: The email from "Emily (AI agent, iLands)". What an annoying email to receive.…

Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you…

This week I was reading this article, "we have a year to fix security everywhere". The TL;DR, is that GLM-5.3 flash can be run locally on $5-15k hardware and…