What Interested Me Today 8

Welcome to another installment of “things that interested me today but aren’t enough to warrant a blogpost by themselves so I bundled them all together here”—I hope you find something that catches your eye!

Again I don’t really plan to do these every week but it just so happens that I felt like writing about something but didn’t really have a big topic in mind.

Oh well, enjoy the links!

Bubbles, a frontpage for the IndieWeb

Jeremy mentioned a new site that serves as a blog discovery platform: Bubbles!

It looks rather simple, very similar to Reddit, Lemmy, Hacker News or Lobste.rs. However, this is not about tech articles or about whatever drives the most clicks, it’s a platform to surface bloggers, people writing about their lives and whatever they want.

They seem to be really focused on the IndieWeb, and even provide a widget that can be added to your website so the upvotes you get there can be seen on your posts. That’s kind of fun!

You even log-in with your fediverse account, it doesn’t have to be just Mastodon either, so that’s pretty awesome. No extra account setup, no email to give, all good for me.

The way comments work is based on the same principle, leave a comment on a mastodon post generated by Bubbles itself using your Fediverse client, and it will appear in bubbles too—similar to how my comments system works.

Prove You’re Human, from the creators of 1000xRESIST

If you don’t know, 1000xRESIST is the most unique experience I’ve ever had in gaming, and in my top 5 favourite games of all time.

Sunset Visitor is the studio behind this masterpiece, and now they’re working on a new project!

Featuring captcha solving, living in the Windows XP wallpaper, and some strange robot with a face attached to it. This seems to be a very interesting take which will have a couple things to say about AI. Here’s the summary!

Prove You’re Human is a sci-fi narrative adventure in which you play as Santana and split your consciousness in two. The company behind this program has a chance at achieving true AGI — but there’s just one problem.

The company’s AI, Mesa, believes she’s a human being. It’s your job to train her out of these delusions.

Even though AI in real life right is an absolute pain, and I don’t like hearing much about what it, this game, from this studio, gets a pass, and I’m sure it will have a lot to say about things and I am looking forward to it.

I’m in the podium of #100DaysToOffload

I’ve talked about this 100 DaysToOffload challenge before—and Kev, who keeps the website updated with the people participating in it—recently changed the design a bit!

There’s now a button to sort by number of completions, and I am happy to say that I am in the top 3!

Unfortunately for me, Hyde surpasses me by two and Dan Q sits at the throne with a total of 7 completions!

Honestly though I am relieved that Rubenerd—who recently updated his URL btw so update it if you haven’t —has not participated on it. He doesn’t need to anyway… Please, if you read this, please don’t do it I beg you!!

More blogs for my RSS reader…

• The Retro Dad - Brandon mentioned this post while talking about Skilcraft Government Pens—of all things—and the name was eye-catching enough. Even more so when I realized it’s a BlogSpot site! The design is nice enough and the posts seem right up my alley as well, so yeah, check it out!

• Joe Crawford - I met Joe during an IndieWeb online meeting! He organizes them every week—there will be one in the very same day this post is published—and has been around for a long while so, yeah, I just had to have him on my feed.

• Stitching - I found this small bearblog site from one of Robert Birming’s posts, and I enjoyed the posts there are, I am looking forward to seeing more! Some of the posts I’ve seen so far are book reviews, collecting CDs and physical books and stuff about life. I see in their now page that Persona 5 Royal is being played, so that’s cool too.