# #xa (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover #xa. Page: Feed: --- ## [Football is back but my enthusiasm is not](https://hailsandales.com/posts/football-is-back-but-my-enthusiasm-is-not) _2026-08-22 · Hails and Ales · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I’ve been a fan of football (soccer) for almost as long as I remember. I remember going to my first match at Anfield when I was seven years old in 1997. A pretty dull 0-0 draw from what I recall. Despite the scoreline I was hooked. The atmosphere. The excitement. The chips with my Dad on the walk home. I loved it. I’ve been a fan ever since. Although I haven’t been to a Premier… ## [Lo-fi lowlife - D. 7](https://arsoncafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/lo-fi-lowlife-d-7.html) _2026-08-22 · Arson Cafe · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Continuing a series of short playlists started about seven years ago. Back then a solo venture, now as a sequence of tracks discussed within a close circle, actively brainstorming the next selection while the music plays. Void of strict genre direction. No links, imagine this given to you in secret in an old, folded piece of paper. Does it even mean anything, or is it just… ## [re: re: things to do after your dad dies](https://s0ykaf.bearblog.dev/re-re-things-to-do-after-your-dad-dies/) _2026-08-22 · got a head full of spiders · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I'm not fully sure if that's how the title should be since I've never done a post like this before, but fuck it. We'll do it live. I first saw Absurd Pirate's post a few days back, which then led me to Chloe's post . Similar to AP it made me want to share my own experience about losing my dad, because I haven't really talked about it properly in the five years since it happened.… ## [Hand cramps](https://nullish.smol.pub/hand-cramps) _2026-08-22 · nullish · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It's so easy for a healthy habit to get derailed by a consumerist impulse. A while ago I started journaling, and things were good. I like the Field Notes pocket notebooks, and I've been using them for a long time. I had a small surplus in a drawer, waiting to be used. Pocket notebooks are handy, and if you're in the habit of carrying a pen, then it only makes sense to carry a… ## [Unfortunately Frequently Asked Questions About Transphobic Pinball Events](https://posts.arborelia.net/unfortunately-frequently-asked-questions-about-transphobic-pinball-events/) _2026-08-22 · arborelia · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Yes, that's my chest in the header image. No, the cut of my T-shirt isn't flattering. When I wrote the post Six Months After OBX , I put together this separate post of spicy answers to the kinds of questions people have been asking, but decided to only post it if things got worse. Things got worse. I will not go into detail on that yet, so I can let victims speak first. The IFPA… ## [Still a Member of the Cancer Tribe](https://www.beginningwithi.com/2026/08/22/still-a-member-of-the-cancer-tribe/) _2026-08-21 · Countries Beginning with I · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles August, 2024: I’m coming up on the tenth anniversary of when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and nine years since active treatment (surgery, chemo, radiation) ended. Since then I’ve been taking tamoxifen to suppress estrogen in my body because mine was a hormone-sensitive cancer. In the early months and years, I feared that I … Continue reading Still a Member of the Cancer… ## [The 'Yeah' Heard Round My World](https://blog.curiousquail.com/the-yeah-heard-round-my-world/) _2026-08-21 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Collective Soul Unlocking A Core Memory Photo unrelated. Trying to get the studio all packed up and cleaned out but also going through the photo backlog. Here's Kindy. My partner Della's music shuffle library is truly a gift . She has effectively every song she owns on shuffle at any given time so it's not uncommon to just randomly hear Ani DiFranco followed by 2Pac, then a… ## [On values, morals, and doing business](https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-values-morals-and-doing-business) _2026-08-21 · Manuel Moreale · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the same way I don’t read about new washing machines) and I’m also not on X. So why do I even care about this news? Well, the short answer is that I… ## [NO THANK YOU.](https://jsrn.net/personal/2026/08/21/no-thank-you.html) _2026-08-21 · jsrn.net · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles We recently came across your site — the personal website of a real human being. That’s exactly the kind of real-human personal blog we built ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ for — an AI content team that keeps creating for you. Tell it what to make — newsletters, videos, podcasts, or articles — and how often; it researches fresh sources, picks what matters, and produces editable content on schedule, so… ## [Small Car Dreams](https://bez-lightyear.bearblog.dev/small-car-dreams/) _2026-08-21 · Bez Lightyear · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Last night I had the most vivid dream. I had travelled to a large house with my son with the express purpose of him purchasing a Smart ForTwo car off the occupier. We looked around the car and it seemed okay, so my son went inside to pay the guy the £350 asking price. I sat in the driver's seat and checked out the instrument panel, which was a cardboard box with a piece of paper… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3HcQ701QfSxD) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [My e-reader made me a worse reader](https://sylvia.studio/my-e-reader-made-me-a-worse-reader) _2026-08-21 · Sylvia's Studio · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles This is the third installment of my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into the use of technology and on ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the second post I asked if we really need the latest tech . This week I've purposely put aside the e-reader I use at home, the Pocketbook… ## [I'm making CalAction free to use](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/making-calaction-free/) _2026-08-21 · Mijndert Stuij · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Since launching CalAction , I always struggled with the idea of the in-app purchase. I'm a firm believer in the idea that software should be free to use, and that people should be able to use all of it without any barriers. I also believe that people should get the opportunity to support the development of software they use and like, within their own means. I no longer think the… ## [Is the LLM smart or are you not?](https://blog.troed.se/posts/the-anchoring-effect-and-cognitive-simplicity/) _2026-08-21 · Things I couldn't find elsewhere · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles -“I don't understand how you can pretend that simple next-token prediction models can do what humans brains can!” I hear this a lot - and to me it sounds like pushback against how Large Language Models (LLMs) keep making advancements. But here is a different perspective: Maybe it's less about LLMs being “smart” in a human sense and more about the fact that we vastly overestimate… ## [I'm being radicalised and that's a good thing](https://marcg.net/im-being-radicalised-and-thats-a-good-thing/) _2026-08-21 · Marc Gilbert · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I’ve been on a bender lately of reading books about gender, specifically a lot on the experience of women in society, and it’s radicalising me in the best way possible. Many years ago, during my trip through Europe in the summertime, I was lucky enough to spend some time with a wonderful woman who was a fairly dedicated feminist. This person taught me a lot at the time in my… ## [This Guy Made an ASCII Cyberpunk City Using HTML and JavaScript](https://kaigulliksen.com/blog/this-guy-made-an-ascii-cyberpunk-city-using-html-and-javascript/) _2026-08-21 · Kai Gulliksen · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles This is absolutely amazing. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File ## [The public service in France is broken](https://topopa.bearblog.dev/the-public-service-in-france-is-broken/) _2026-08-21 · Topopa · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I've been trying to get back to school for more than a year now. Actually, before I even left my former school, I was researching apprenticeship or scholarship opportunities. How many attempts did I even make to this point? Ok, let's add a bit of context first: I went back to school as an adult learner for an apprenticeship on how to be a lab tech. The program was supposed to be… ## [I now play Big Walk every Thursday](https://blog.lauramichet.com/i-now-play-big-walk-every-thursday/) _2026-08-21 · Laura Michet · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I now play Big Walk once a week. I like playing it this slowly! I find that every time we pick it up, we see an incredibly dense selection of wild stuff. Having that concentrated to one day a week isn't bad. Today we experienced an unusually dense selection of bizarre happenings. We completed two major objectives, which is a pretty big jump in Puzzle Velocity, for us. We… ## [Wasps](https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/08/21/wasps/) _2026-08-21 · Happily Imperfect · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It’ll be wasp season soon —he says, well aware that the very idea of “seasons” is an increasingly futile one— and so any slight buzzing has me frantically scanning for something, anything, I can use as a weapon. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story of when I was stung. It was, I think, my Mum’s birthday. I can recall helping my Dad organise a surprise holiday for her around… ## [GitHub's growth](https://sals.place/blog/github-growth/) _2026-08-21 · Sal's Blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead : Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers, it’s probably bad news for the bottom line. I guess I echo this guy : I applaud GitHub. However, I think no… ## ["Doorway into Your Attention"](https://thisismylast.bearblog.dev/doorway-into-your-attention/) _2026-08-21 · This Is My Last · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Ashlie D. Stevens: And increasingly, there is an app for almost every place we eat. The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect points, save your usual. The bargain is convenience, and often it genuinely is convenient. But increasingly, buying a sandwich or a cup of… ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DTaTh1as2znL) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## ["Materially Generated Using AI"](https://thisismylast.bearblog.dev/materially-generated-using-ai/) _2026-08-21 · This Is My Last · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Apple Music will be adding labels to songs that are "materially generated using AI" later this year. I hope that customers will be able to filter off these 'songs' easily in all places. ~ Link: Apple Music to Add Labels for AI-Generated Music Later This Year , by Kristin Robinson, Billboard ## [Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand](https://www.autodidacts.io/vibecoding-isnt-as-fun-as-writing-code-by-hand/) _2026-08-20 · The Autodidacts · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I like building things: it makes me happy. Learning and discovering things is a close second, but building is more satisfactory. Since I’m not that good at actually, you know, building things, the thrill of “building”, in my case, has mostly come from writing software. Software is one of the easiest ways to create something satisfyingly useful out of nothing. For a long time… ## [Going back for more Vintage Story](https://blog.lauramichet.com/going-back-for-more-vintage-story/) _2026-08-20 · Laura Michet · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I spent some time checking out Vintage Story again. I've written about it here several times before - looks like I was super into it last January? It's still good! The game has been updated quite a lot since I last sat down with it. One of the bigger updates was the addition of fishing earlier this year. (The update post is pretty wild.) In traditional Vintage Story style, the… ## [deluding myself into thinking mac n cheese is the 2nd healthiest food](https://amytrieslife.com/blog/deluding-myself-into-thinking-mac-n-cheese-is-the-2nd-healthiest-food/) _2026-08-20 · Amy Tries Life · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Guys this is crazy. On Monday, I dreamt that I searched up the healthiest food on google, and there it was. ## [Meta Figured Out How to Build a Mac App](https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-mac-app/) _2026-08-20 · Pixel Envy · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Zac Hall , 9to5Mac : The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit and SwiftUI shell with WebKit for richer chat content. In other words, this is not an Electron app or a repackaged iPad release. Meta’s other major Mac app… ## [Handwritten HTML](https://unstory.eu/qno/) _2026-08-20 · unstory · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It's 2026 and people are shoveling features from AI into their software every day. Barry is excited to share the latest paid feature for the pros in Pika. Hot on the heels of our site-wide Custom Code announcement, we're excited to share that Pika now offers Pika Pro subscribers the ability to add custom code directly into your individual posts and pages. It offers the ability… ## [Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etiquette-basics-the-new-rules) _2026-08-20 · Westenberg. · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles 🍕 I’m JA Westenberg . I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place. While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a writing app | Post Through It, a solo microblogging tool | Distributism.ai , my MCP platform | Laterware , all the AI news you need | Studio Self… ## [I think we've got feeds working.](https://stevebarnes.org/blog/1787187777/) _2026-08-20 · Steve Barnes' World Of Happiness · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles After some good old hand-coding, I'm offering an RSS feed with titles and links, along with a JSON Feed feed with full text. You know, I'd never considered feeds essential to a Web home , since the main purpose of building and opening one's home to others is for people to visit it, not for people to receive broadcasts from it. But I've certainly thought feeds were cool since… ## [In Defence of Vent Posting](https://brennan.day/in-defence-of-vent-posting/) _2026-08-19 · brennan.day · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles If you've been on the Internet, you've seen someone venting. The act of sharing anger, sadness, grief—usually with vulnerable, personal details. Almost universally, these get a bad rap. People are often drained, or annoyed, or resentful towards those who vent, and communities go out of their way to prohibit it. Not to pick on 32-bit Café, but they have a detailed section on… ## [“Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8...](https://honeypot.net/2026/08/19/fun-fact-it-took-until.html) _2026-08-19 · Honeypot.net · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles “Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8.5T in Biden’s term, then another $4.6T so far under Trump 2. We’ve gone another $20.4T underwater since Obama. No more geriatric leaders with few years ahead of them and no future consequences, please. Sources: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/…… ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/d8MbZ7cRZL3X) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence](https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/) _2026-08-19 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70… ## [A bramble tour of my garden](https://francescrossley.com/a-bramble-tour-of-my-garden/) _2026-08-19 · What the Fran · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I hacked some brambles and because not much else in my garden is thriving I thought why not commemorate these absolute troopers. This bramble is trying to avoid being hacked by pretending it is a rose. This bramble gives no shits and is just hanging out. It went up the wall/fence and then just leapt out and grew back down in the air. This bramble is trying to kill me on the… ## [Titans football is back!](https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/19/titans-football-is-back/) _2026-08-19 · Michael Harley · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Well, not really but almost! It's preseason and I've watched a preseason game! For the past couple years, watching Titans games has been equivalent to self-flagellation. The team has been bad, and there hasn't been much cause for optimism. It's felt like we've been a bad organization. Since 2022, we're tied with the Arizona Cardinals for the worst record in the league with a… ## [museums i recently visited iv](https://blog.sulimans.space/museums-i-recently-visited-iv/) _2026-08-19 · suliman's blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles On my last day in Berlin, I went to the second to last museum on my list: the GDR (German Democratic Republic) Museum. 1 This museum was created to commemorate and showcase to future generations how life under the GDR was like which is something it does exceptionally well. This museum is unique among those contemporary history museums I’ve been to so far. It has complete… ## [“Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not.](https://iamgregb.io/like-them-but-better-it-s-not) _2026-08-19 · @iamgregb · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles A social media strategy focused entirely on the competition is in bad taste. There is nothing wrong with highlighting your strengths in comparison to theirs, but it becomes exhausting when that is your entire message. I want to choose your product because of its unique proposition, not because “it’s like … but better.” It eats away at your brand and, honestly, it’s off-putting.… ## [Everything I learned when buying a used Honda Fit](https://a.wholelottanothing.org/everything-i-learned-when-buying-a-used-honda-fit/) _2026-08-19 · A Whole Lotta Nothing · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles The first time the Honda Fit made me stop and think "huh, maybe that is a useful car?" was when I read this review at Cool Tools where it sounded like it was as handy as a small truck, got over 30mpg, and was reliable as hell. For years after, whenever anyone I know needed a cheap, reliable, safe car for their newly-licensed driving kids, I'd give the same answer: just buy a… ## [Mood camera](https://iamfran.com/notes/mood-camera/) _2026-08-19 · Fran's Realm · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I purchased Mood camera when it first came out, after taking it for a quick spin and appreciating what the developer was trying to do: I wanted to create an experience that encouraged users to stay in the moment and just take photos, not stand there, tweaking settings. \[...\] the app is intended to be a point and shoot experience that encourages a creative process that doesn't… ## [The (at least) nine cultures of play (GLÅUGUST 2026 #3)](https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-at-least-nine-cultures-of-play.html) _2026-08-19 · Seed of Worlds · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025 , challenge #3 is from a list by Purple - "Futility of categorization." I have been gathering the various '... but also!' cultures of play people have articulated since Retired Adventurer wrote their touchstone post . In addition to those original six, we can add 'Optimizer' culture from Flourite Guillotine, Jeu d'Atmosphere from… ## [Thoughts on Kingdom Come Deliverence 1](https://hakkerman.eu/blog/thoughts-on-kcd1/) _2026-08-19 · HakkerBlog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I've been playing through KCD I again ( for the 3rd time ) and the biggest problem is that I really want to play the second one. Not because the first game is bad, it's really good. It's just that the second is even better. I'll keep this post mostly spoiler free, but I'll speak of the story in vauge terms, just so you know. Currently I'm at the siege, and I've just done all the… ## [How My Brother and I Nearly Killed Each Other (Twice)](https://catsandbirdsandstuff.com/how-my-brother-and-i-nearly-killed-each-other-twice/) _2026-08-19 · Cats and Birds and Stuff · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Kamikaze tricyclists and fighting on the beach I grew up in the Fifties in Port Tennant, a tight-knit community on the east side of Swansea, in a world of terraced houses and sprawling, imagined battlefields, shared uneasily with my younger brother Peter. Like most brothers born close together, Peter and I did not get on. Not really. We fought, argued, and from my side at least,… ## [Niu Lai, or Why Human Art is Always Superior to Generative AI](https://afarshadblog.bearblog.dev/niu-lai-or-why-human-art-is-always-superior-to-generative-ai/) _2026-08-19 · a farshad blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room , a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its lack of quality and horrible dialogue, making it a cult classic as something so bad it is good. Niu Lai (牛来) perhaps is the Chinese version of The Room , with one outstanding difference: while The Room was a massive flop… ## [Little websites everywhere](https://samwilson.id.au/Little_websites_everywhere) _2026-08-19 · News feed · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Fremantle 2026 August 19 (Wednesday), 8:52AM · websites · blogging · Little Websites Everywhere , by Michelle Barker, 18 August 2026: Building a website feels old-fashioned these days. How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living? The web will change… ## [Another one of my favorite music venues is closing and I'm sad again](https://blog.curiousquail.com/another-one-of-my-favorite-music-venues-is-closing-and-im-sad-again/) _2026-08-17 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Reflections on the impending closure of iconic independent San Francisco music venue, Bottom of the Hill from a dude who both played there AND went to shows there a lot Earlier this year I was sent an article by bandmates, friends, family, and members of bands we've played with over the years about something I knew would happen eventually yet reading it gutted me. The owners of… ## [When the Bees Go, We're All Buggered](https://catsandbirdsandstuff.com/when-the-bees-go-were-all-buggered/) _2026-08-17 · Cats and Birds and Stuff · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles My daughter gets stung weekly and still told me to write this. My daughter, Jennifer, hates bees, wasps and anything that might sting her. I don't blame her. She's a magnet for them. They'll ignore everybody else present and make a beeline (see what I did there?) straight for her. She'll start waving her arms about and jumping around, inevitably hitting one, which will… ## [Borneo - Spiders](https://sheep.horse/2026/8/borneo_-_spiders.html) _2026-08-17 · Andrew's Blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles First, a warning. This post contains pictures of spiders. Big spiders. If this worries you, perhaps consider reading something else - I suggest my previous post: Borneo - No Spiders.We... ## [For Privacy Reasons](https://iamgregb.io/for-privacy-reasons) _2026-08-17 · @iamgregb · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Privacy and compliance theatre, with its endless acts and elaborate productions, is getting exhausting, to be honest. The latest performance comes courtesy of Amazon : “As customers shop with us more frequently, including on their phones, and use the ‘Your Orders’ page in the Amazon app to get real-time, consolidated order details and delivery status, we’ve simplified several… ## [From the crypt](https://hailsandales.com/posts/from-the-crypt) _2026-08-17 · Hails and Ales · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I’ve decided to restart another series of blog posts I started on my old blog but never got too far with. I’m calling it ‘From the crypt’ in honour of the now defunct Ken’s death metal crypt and also because it just feels right. I’ve spent time compiling a playlist of death metal EPs and demos on YouTube. They’re mostly from the late 80s and early 90s though some later ones have… ## [Look how far you’ve come](https://robertbirming.com/look-how-far-youve-come/) _2026-08-17 · Robert Birming · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Today a new guy at work tagged along on my home inspections. He’s where I was when I started doing this job eight years ago. To him, I’m an expert, just like I considered everyone to be when I got employed back in 2017. That’s not something you think about yourself, no matter what line of work you’re in. You just do what you do, and you’ve done it for a long time, so you… ## [GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?](https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/) _2026-08-17 · Dhruv · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and enshittified - it lost its direction and doesn't seem to care about its customers. And Github is probably not the only one - there are many other examples. We got to have a kill switch… ## [re:Things to do after your dad dies](https://blog.absurdpirate.com/rethings-to-do-after-your-dad-dies/) _2026-08-17 · Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I just got done reading (this post from the blog For No One)\[https://fornoone.bearblog.dev/things-to-do-after-your-dad-dies/\] and I feel like it gave me the courage to talk about when my dad died. I've alluded to it in previous posts, but never got into the weeds of it. I think part of me is afraid of digging up that day from the grave so-to-speak. I still remember that day,…