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Bubblin
Company blog · bubblin.io/blogdesignweb
Bubblin is the company blog at bubblin.io, writing about design and web. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 125 times, most often “Bubblin Superbooks: An online café of books”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An online book-reading platform pitched as Bandcamp for books, with animated and interactive picture books. HN commenters mostly discussed its reader interface, browser compatibility bugs, and children's books.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read books online with your friends. Save trees in the process.
Most-linked posts?
- Bubblin Superbooks: An online café of books4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-12-15
- Frequently Raised Concerns of Books3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-12-18
- Fullscreen web apps on iPad Safari2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-11-16
- Lower memory usage of your Rails app with jemalloc2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-23
- /book/ladakh-by-satie-sharma/12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Siddhartha by Hermann Karl Hesse [1] It's an outstanding book though I also liked his 'Beneath the Wheel' and 'Steppenwolf' a lot. Siddhartha has an unusual depth for the topic it tackles, namely achievement and meaning. Highly recommend, and the best part—it is free! [1] https://bubblin.io/cover/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse
Comment linking /cover/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?”Submitted Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books as a story · 138 points
HN discussionTotally, I agree! Even though George Orwell is more known for 1984 but his work truly shines with the Animal Farm. It is a children's book fwiw but every aspect of it is meant for the grown-ups. Outstanding! Luckily if you're in Australia, you can read this book for free because it is public domain there. [1] https://bubblin.io/cover/animal-farm-by-george-orwell (iPad-book) [2] http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/01000…
Comment linking /cover/animal-farm-by-george-orwell
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?”Submitted Handling Notch on iPhone X, XS, XR, XS Max as a story · 81 points
HN discussion> …on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens. Are you sure about that? [1] [1] https://bubblin.io/blog/daylight-energy-fatigue
Comment linking /blog/daylight-energy-fatigue
on “ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper”Submitted Show HN: Bubblin Superbooks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm happy with my iPad. I can read books, watch videos or take notes all in one, plus I get to surf the open web on a super fast browser on top hardware that doesn't try to mimic the dead-tree. Not sure what the use-case for a sluggish 'paper-like' interface would ever be? I know some folks will jump to suggest less eyestrain but neither paper books nor e-ink help with that. Since eyestrain stems from overworked eye…
Comment linking /blog/daylight-energy-fatigue
on “ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper”Submitted Setting up your server for IPv6 (nginx) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is so true! Developers often don’t realize how much MS Word can do and what its users think about the rest of the world. B.t.w since it’s about the US Constitution it is customary for me to share a link to its book form on the web: https://bubblin.io/cover/the-united-states-constitution-by-u...
Comment linking /cover/the-united-states-constitution-by-united-states-of-america
on “US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits”Submitted Fullscreen web apps on iPad Safari as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSure, here's my list: everything + more. There's nothing a PDF can do that a webpage can't. In fact there are a hundred of things that a webpage can do, but a PDF can't. Including, form fields, input fields and seamless form submissions. Webpages can also do this: https://bubblin.io/cover/official-handbook-by-marvin-danig#f... Disclosure: It's my work.
Comment linking /cover/official-handbook-by-marvin-danig
on “Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms”Submitted Show HN: Toucaan–Rethinking CSS Frameworks as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Text and other element placement is static, so spatial memory works. Exactly! This results in _referential accessibility_ [1]. You might want to look up for the Superbook format [2] perhaps? Though not everything physics is required to be solved with it. [1] https://bubblin.io/blog/referential-accessibility Disclosure: I'm its creator.
Comment linking /blog/referential-accessibility
on ““The books will stop working.””Submitted To Serif or Not to (Sans) Serif? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAny kind of book is possible on web. Here's a photobook (only graphics) by Satyendra Sharma, for example: https://bubblin.io/cover/ladakh-by-satie-sharma#frontmatter Disclosure: I'm the developer behind the project.
Comment linking /cover/ladakh-by-satie-sharma
on ““The books will stop working.””Submitted Serving your site on iPV6 using Nginx as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAwesome work, Brave! We use Brave internally for all our development work and are also a Brave Certified book publisher for the web [1][2]. Please tip us to support the books we publish if you are a Brave user too! I can vouch for the quality of browsing experience and speed that we have had in the past two years. One of the best features of Brave, which led me to set the browser as our default, is on a shortcut `Co…
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on “Brave launches 1.0”Submitted Fullscreen web applications on iPad Safari as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> …and a website. =:) Have you seen Superbooks on web with https://bubblin.io ? Disclosure: I'm one of its developer.
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on “How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources”Submitted Lower memory usage of your Rails app with jemalloc as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is an excellent post. I wrote about the new landscape of the web [1] a few weeks ago and how responsive web design is a complete failure in addressing that. There are so many fallacies! 1. Tablet != mobile. 2. Mobile != Watch. 3. Desktops can be in portrait mode. 4. EV Cars like Tesla Model 3/S are closer to tablet than desktop. [1] https://bubblin.io/blog/the-new-landscape-of-the-web
Comment linking /blog/the-new-landscape-of-the-web
on “Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone”Submitted Show HN: I made a book of 70,000 Baby Girl Names as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I love books because they create time and space to be alone with a thought. Spot on and cue page turns! Fan open a book and read horizontally. Have intermediate stops between chunks of text on two well-formatted pages and then transition to next. A second to soak in the content in between with time and space makes for a huge difference! Scrolling animation can never achieve or serve this sort of efficiency! I rece…
Comment linking /concerns
on “Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction”Submitted Line tracking using plain CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou mean https://bubblin.io/book/bookiza-documentation-by-marvin-dani... ?
Comment linking /book/bookiza-documentation-by-marvin-danig/1
on “Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim”Submitted Fullscreen API iPad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnd there is this one who makes children's book using css3: https://bubblin.io/cover/abcd-animal-book-by-judith-neumann#... How: https://blog.codepen.io/2016/01/08/abcd-animal-book/
Comment linking /cover/abcd-animal-book-by-judith-neumann
on “CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)”Submitted Touch logins for websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUp to 85% of the title's price. Meet Bubblin @ https://bubblin.io Discl.: founder here.
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on “Tips for Writing a Technical Book”Submitted Setting up your server for IPv6 as a story · 3 points
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