Bubbles
Latest Posts
Algebraic effects are a style / mathematical framework for modelling mutation, search, and some other things. They are another attempt to bridge the gap between mathy looking stuff and our crass world of mud and time.
22nd July. Another uneventful and slightly overcast jaunt to Warriston. But pleasant enough to archive some pics and video rather than bin it. Of note: this wren - I suspect a youngster - was particularly active around the In Loving...
I’m very pleased to present a guest blog by one of my students at the University of Sussex. The author, Elize Holyoake, recently completed our English in the United States module and will be entering her third year in the BA English...
Sad news from Ireland via the Irish Independent:Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin’s Lucan. The renowned musician was killed in the single-vehicle crash near Strawberry...
I’m still not back to doing indie game roundups just yet but I did want to give a shout out to all the adventure games coming out lately since there’s been so many lately but you wouldn’t know it from being in the adventure game...
I wasn’t sure whether this piece in The Economist of May 23rd rated a comment until towards the end when they assured me that one of the writers of LitRPG (literary role-playing games) “with the cryptic pen name Zogarth, makes nearly...
Hello? It’s for you. Pressed cardboard Walkie Talkie from a game. Circa 1950s. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday. This letter noticeably increases my hope that we will manage to not die, and that we will otherwise be able to secure for ourselves a positive future, both by its impact and by...
As an artist, Leonor Fini has never received as much attention as her contemporary and near namesake Leonora Carrington but this didn’t stop film-makers calling at Fini’s door in later life. The best of the ones I’ve seen to date (and...
I installed the macOS 27 beta on a spare 2020 M1 Mac Mini and ran Geekbench before and after. Most scores improved, one dropped slightly.
I don’t want to write the same book twice. I challenge myself to make every book different. So far, I’ve experimented with formats: a choose-your-own-adventure, a 10-point list, and a one-idea-per-chapter book. For my latest books, 10...
“You Light Up My Life” spent ten weeks at number one in 1977, one of the longest runs any song had at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 that decade. It's been sung at weddings, played at funerals, and covered by everyone from LeAnn Rimes...
Brendt shares fresh Packagist-based PHP version stats for July 2026: PHP 8.4 is now the most-used version, while PHP 8.5 reached 16% adoption after six months. He also notes that package minimum requirements still lag behind, with...
There is something about me that you may not know: I like to laugh. Actually, if you know me at all, that probably isn’t much of a secret. I’ve always been someone who uses humor. Sometimes at the most inappropriate times. Sometimes when...
The yearly recurring thing called the Board Game Shelf Analysis didn’t recur in 2023 and didn’t in 2025. I guess I don’t really like odd-numbered years but I do like to write about this now deemed as a biennial event during the summer....