Bubbles Weekly

I watched a documentary on Channel 4 recently called England 'Til I Die (embedded below from YouTube). It follows a group of racist thugs and how they want all…

You are a worn-out horse, not a beautiful green stone. You must do the hard, awkward and right thing anyways. On the Cornell Chi Phi lawsuit broken by the…

The world needs more intentional kindness. There's a manufactured backlash against empathy from Elon Musk to Gad Saad's 'suicidal empathy.' Kindness already…

You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us…

I read a post recently (Domains Cost More, Blogs Disappear) about personal sites going quiet. The owners don’t announce they’re done. One day, the site just…

"The official term for dog shows is conformation — as in, the act of conforming or producing conformity."

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1176/meat-proxies

28 Sep 2026 Tangled earphones were a feature, not a bug.

Dear podcasts and apps, Stop telling me your subscription only cost one cup of coffee per month. Because my daily cup of coffee cost me about SGD 0.25 (about…

Today marks a year since my little sister, Lisa, took her own life. She was 34. It was an overdose, but we don't know if it was an accident or suicide. We’ll…

Why this photo? Because the accordionist pictured above, who could easily be a stunt double for my father-in-law, is none other than Krist Novoselic, the…

Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Katie Baker / The Ringer: The internet lasts…

I appear to have misplaced my mojo. I’ve not lost it completely. I mean I know roughly what it looks like, and it can’t be far cos I had it up until recently.…

Another Akademy attended, here's some photos! Hello hello! It was that time of the year where I go to KDE Akademy, talk to fellow nerds, almost lose my voice…

Some monstrosities from my garden

I struggled to get myself to the gym. It’s a classic trap, and I suspect many of us can relate to it. My sister was one of them, too. But she used to tell me:…

Dear Creative Soul, For years I dreamed of being the kind of person carrying around notebooks everywhere. Sitting on a park bench staring at a tree, taking my…

Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility…

I’m a Wikipedia editor, and have been since 2004. It’s fun! I don’t do it often enough. My niche is jazz and transit articles, though I spend as much time…

I have been noticing a couple of disturbing trends this year outside of the AI/LLM bubble. Has anyone else noticed them? First, domain registrars seem to be…

This blog has moved from WordPress.com to self-hosting. If you were following it via WordPress, you should use an RSS reader pointed at nolanlawson.com/feed…

Reddit announced yesterday the end of RSS support: Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS…

I think it should be clear to actual readers of this site that I do not want any games sent to me that use generative AI, including code, but since it keeps…

Been trying various browsers the past month. I have been really trying to get away from anything Google related, which eliminates quite a few browser options…

This morning, I killed my Gumroad stores. I hadn’t been watching Gumroad. I kept them around to support VAT, and a handful of you used them. This morning I…

It’s finally time I go crawling back to Node! I’ve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so good‽ Deno has been…

Firefox 157 has a slick new interface. And the internet is losing its shit. The updated interface has been dismissed as “round” and already you can find…

After 1Password's recent political statement, I canceled my subscription and switched to Bitwarden.

I might have forgiven the shitstorm that was Apple’s Tahoe macOS release. I never upgraded my laptop from Sequoia after seeing the accessibility disaster that…

4-6 months ago I had the urge to distrohop. It's been about 8 years since I've tried Ubuntu, so I decided to switch over from Debian. It was great for a little…

A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.

In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed…

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board By Sarah Perez Read original post → I have been holding off on writing…

I started lightly coding when I was like 14 - modifying HTML & CSS on myspace. My first real language was Java when I learned to develop Android when I was…

I built a Chrome extension to keep XML sitemaps readable once browsers drop XSLT. It turned into a sitemap checker, and it taught me that almost nobody ships a…

Why writing—and writing back—is never wasted time. From Patricia Lange's troll whispering to reparative civility, deep canvassing, Daryl Davis, Megan…

Note that this post discusses rape, rape culture and the recent news about Cornell University.  I don’t write about dark shit like I used to. I think in recent…