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Twenty years ago today, I was impressed with WordPress, the new kid on my block. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/getting-to-grips-with-wordpress It is still pretty impressive, if it gives you what you want.

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Seven years ago I wrote a generally depressing piece about “science communication” and how little it seems to achieve. Someone please tell me how things have changed in the interim. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scicomm-what-is-it-good-for

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Baking Hot

Around this time, as is customary, my little microbial helpers need a dash of tender loving care. The yoghurt has already had two quick passages and is much the better for it. The kefir is about to have its first. But with temperatures in the high 30s°C I wasn’t super keen to look after the bread starters. Of course I could have just refreshed them without actually baking, but where’s the fun in that, and in any case stocks of frozen bread were dwindling fast. So, yesterday I took a look at the stiffer star

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@jeremycherfas On the Mac, I leave “smart quotes” enabled. When I need to use "straight quotes", I hold down Ctrl while typing the character, so a "straight double quote" is Ctrl-Shift-', and a 'straight single quote' is Ctrl-'. When the smart quotes get it wrong and I need to type curly quotes directly, an open double quote “ is Option-[, a close double quote ” is Option-Shift-[, an open single quote ‘ is Option-] and a close single quote ’ is Option-Shift-]. It’s more straightforward than it sounds.

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Tragically, Emeritus Professor Robert Eric Frykenberg has still not seen fit to correct the egregious howler he perpetrated in 2008, to which I drew attention back then. Talk about being a non-influencer. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-snaffle-bridle-on-a-17th-century-pit-pony

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Back in 2008, I asked why organisations don't get rid of people at random when they have to downsize. "Management would not be required to make difficult decisions that are almost certainly wrong in at least some cases". Has any one tried, and if not, why not? https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/let-go-at-random

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@InkySchwartz For certain values of fun, yes indeed.A tyre glider replaces tyre levers. https://tyreglider.co.uk Not an advert nor sponsored, just one happy customer. Home

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@etp you are brave for taking the Brompton on a route that is described as “ nice up and down gravel”. I know that feeling, not so much a physical but more of a mental exhaustion from having to be focused all the time dodging potholes and bigger stones

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@etp Oooh that sounds like a fun ride. Though I have a 20 year old mountain bike made trail rider that does well in those circumstances, especially when I train for hills.Question, is a tyre glider what I would call a tire lever?

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I finally wrote about my trip to the Brompton World Championships in Venice. Still have to do the photos. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/brompton-world-championships-2024

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Getting errors from the web mention service I use and need to work out why, so trying from here to see whether anything will be be received at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/make-it-simpler

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Getting errors from heroku.webmention.com and need to work out why, so using an example to ask why they don't seem to be received at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/make-it-simpler

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@etp @stevelord Italian here, I never knew (until now!) that asparagus and eggs are named _alla Bismark_ and had plenty of them in my life (I should actually prepare them one of these evenings 😂)I think the second option you outline in the post is the most plausible: _alla Bismark_ defines something topped with eggs like the pizza or these asparagus. Why? No idea. The whole blood and eggs thing seems a little far fetched but could be very well be it

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@etp I also like them roasted in the oven. The tops become all crispy that way. 🤤

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@etp yes, that's supposed to be butter 🤦‍♂️

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@n3wjack I also far prefer green to white asparagus, and roasted to boiled or steamed. Is “vutter” a typo for “butter”? Looks like it might be.

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@etp In Flanders (Belgium) we do something similar, with a butter sauce and an egg salad of boiled eggs. Sometimes ham is also added.I like the green ones better though.

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@etpI distinctly remember my confusion at egg-topped Pizza alla Bismarck being a thing in Italy when I visited 25 or so years ago, so I really appreciate this deep dig.

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@etp I also love fried eggs with asparagus and had no idea they were Italian, or named after Bismarck.

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Posted my monthly update. I realise that this is a good antidote to me thinking that I have frittered my time away. I haven't, but I need to consider the things I've done to provide myself with a more accurate picture. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2024-03

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@etp this sounds like it’s been a lovely ride

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My OCD is giving me grief about the different line weights in ↗ and ↘ in the latest post on my website.

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Here's a fun one from this day in 2007: Dr Watson and the Missing Money https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/dr-watson-and-the-missing-money

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@jeremycherfas I sometimes use Komoot for planning runs. But haven’t tried it for cycling. I guess it also depends on the area you try it in, and the amount of app users there.

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@roelio Thanks. I’m not absolutely sure I am going to commit to Komoot. Looking to hear others’ experiences and maybe resurrect my Strava account, although as I recall Strava wasn’t great for route finding.

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@jeremycherfas Nice trip! Looking forward to reading about your experience with Komoot next time. :)

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@etp Nice! the trail looked scenic and peaceful.

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@heyloura Wow. Great retro vibe.

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@heyloura Thank you. Will follow.

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@jeremycherfas I have a customized micro.blog site: heyloura.com

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Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post? ##onthisday 🔗 February 29, 2024 at 9:31AM EST • by Marty McGuire Have you posted a response to this? Let me know the URL:

Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?

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@jtr Nice! Thanks.

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@jeremycherfas shamelessly but consciously offering myself, since I just switched themes on my blog here in MB, and I put up my CSS with explanations. I still post about my design/layout thoughts as I go through those.

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@jeremycherfas In relation to which, who are some good MB people to follow on their sites, rather than in the app? Looking to explore a diversity of presentation styles.

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Yesterday’s graph from USDA is really interesting. It shows that the February 2022 recall of formula milk in the US, which compounded the supply chain difficulties of Covid, was associated with a striking increase in the number of infants fully and partially breastfed (and a drop in the number fully formula fed). The survey covers only people enrolled in the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), so it isn’t comprehensive, but it represents a more vulnerable se

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@toddgrotenhuis I hope you do. For me they are much more accessible than the original geohashing expeditions.

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@jeremycherfas thanks for sharing. I think I'll try some rabbit quests!

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@artkavanagh That’s precisely the point. It didn’t need to be called anything other than a bike.

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@artkavanagh @jeremycherfas “Acoustic”. Comparing to guitars, it makes sense. I’d of thought maybe “analog” since I think about other lower tech that way.

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@jeremycherfas “acoustic bikes”, eh? I have one of those, though I didn’t know that was what it was called till now.

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@etp I love hearing about people failing just like I do all the time 😄

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@jeremycherfas I first heard it recommended as two-buck Chuck, but it was $2.99 by the time I took advantage.

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@jeremycherfas Yes, it was Two-Buck Chuck at one time. Still a good deal!

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@ReaderJohn @JohnBrady Agreed, and yet people are so unwilling to do the simplest things. I may be old, but I am sure I remember two-buck Chuck. Inflation?

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@JohnBrady I was asked to help plan the 10th Anniversary celebration of the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society. We did a blind taste test to decide what wines to serve, sole stipulation that they be under $10/bottle. Charles Shaw Cabernet Sauvignon ("Three-buck Chuck") was the pick for red.

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@jeremycherfas Blind taste tests are almost always humbling: foodies finding that they can't tell white wine from red or their favorite cult coffee from Dunkin'...

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I’ve previously discussed where I get my ideas for blog posts, but I was intrigued by Sara’s article (and Tantek’s prompt) about how to winnow down and choose between ideas.* I was thinking this through on Friday as I was considering which idea from my drafts folder I wanted to follow through on writing this weekend. * Blogging about blogging being my 2023 theme apparently. Won’t be surprised if it is also my theme for 2024 😁 Choosing between ideas is likewise a challenge in fiction writing; I have more id

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My Yoghurt Balance Sheet Bottom line: I will continue to ferment my own milk, and continue to explore other products, such as calpis and kefir cheese. Jeremy looked at the cost of his own yoghurt-(and kefir-)making and found it’s still worth it. Published by Brent Lineberry on December 5, 2023 Tags: Food Cooking Kefir Yogurt Fermentation Yoghurt Permalink: orangegnome.com/bookmarks/2734 Posted to Mastodon on Dec. 5, 2023

Bottom line: I will continue to ferment my own milk, and continue to explore other products, such as calpis and kefir cheese. Jeremy looked at the cost of his own yoghurt-(and kefir-)making and found it’s still worth it.

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In reply to https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/my-yoghurt-balance-sheet This is great! Published by Brent Lineberry on December 5, 2023 Permalink: orangegnome.com/notes/2733

This is great!

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This is a nearly-exhaustive list of the blogs I follow. ToggleBlogrollceptionPersonal blogs and websitesObsidian, processes, workLocalizationTransOpen cultureWikimediaFediverseGeneralPolitical analysisReadingHistoryCuisineSpecific blogs about specific topics Blogrollception [EN] Blogroll.org [FR] Blogroll.fr Personal blogs and websites [FR] David Larlet [FR] Le monde de K6 [FR] Peptimiste [FR] Winter Witch [FR] Gersande [FR] /home/lord [FR] Anthony Dumas [FR] Stéphane [FR] [EN] Spencer Greenhalgh [EN] J

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IndieWeb Carnival – Community and belonging

A long, long time ago, I signed up to host the November IndieWeb carnival and thought haha, I’m definitely going to forget. I forgot. But here I am three days in, encouraging y’all to talk to me about community and belonging. Better (3 days) late than never, huh? ToggleWhat is the IndieWeb carnival?Tell us something about community and belonging!IndieWeb carnival participantsRead more What is the IndieWeb carnival? Every month, one person signs up to host the IndieWeb carnival. They choose a theme and enco

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Jeremy, thanks for the thanks! It was a pleasure meeting you, and I am glad that I could help you solve that rewrite thing. Upon reflecting, I think that the escaping backslash is only needed on the capturing side, not the rewrite side, so this rule RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ \/ [R=301,L]RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ \/ [R=301,L] may become this one RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ / [R=301,L]RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ / [R=301,L] Upon further reflecting I think the escaping backshlash is not needed at all when in .htaccess rewrites - it usually is needed in regular expressions where the "boundaries" of the expression have to be set, which usually is a forward slash. "/^(.*)$/" for example. In .htaccess rewrites those boundary chars are not needed, so a forward slash I think can be used un-escaped: RewriteRule (wp/?)$ / [R=301,L]RewriteRule (wp/?)$ / [R=301,L] Author: Webrocker Datum: 31.10.2023 18:40h Comments: Keine Reaktion

Jeremy, thanks for the thanks! It was a pleasure meeting you, and I am glad that I could help you solve that rewrite thing. Upon reflecting, I think that the escaping backslash is only needed on the capturing side, not the rewrite side, so this rule RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ \/ [R=301,L]RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ \/ [R=301,L] may become this one RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ / [R=301,L]RewriteRule (wp\/?)$ / [R=301,L] Upon further reflecting I think the escaping backshlash is not needed at all when in .htaccess rewrites -

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IndieWeb Camp Nürnberg 2023

IndieWeb Camp and border:none in Nürnberg were wonderful. I had a great time seeing old friends, making new ones and just giving myself over to the whole thing. Well worthwhile, including even the two twelve-hour train journeys that took me there and back. No complaints. But. Because there has to be a but. I failed miserably in the main task I chose for myself on the hack day on Sunday, which is why I am especially grateful to Jeremy Keith for his timely reminder that it is a really good idea to have a li

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I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting distance data. The data are there with distance in a cycling workout recorded as km between records, which are 1 or 2 seconds apart. The numbers are there, obscured by being of the order of 0.007 km. Solved at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/transport-summary-q3-2023

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Deciding to host a blog carnival was the easy part. Actually doing the work took me right back to those wonderful merry-go-round rides of yesteryear, complete with steam driven organ, as opposed to all the shiny themed rides of the modern amusement park. But enough reminiscence. To work! In my prompt, I said that I was most interested in “the kind of weather you take most pleasure in” and everyone did just that. First up was Sara Jakša, which is only fitting as it was she who started the Indieweb Carnival

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IndieWeb Carnival October 2023: Using 4 E of Cognition to Conceptualise Self-Care

This article was written in the response to this month IndieWeb carnival hosted by Pablo on the topic of Self-Care and Routine. What is Self-Care For this month IndieWeb carnival, Pablo has invited us to share our though on our self-care routine. Though, the one thing that stroke me the most was the following part. Learning self-care has been something I've been working on a lot this year. It has been something I neglected for many, many years. It has helped me be more aligned and be more connected with my

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IndieWeb Carnival: My Kind Of Weather

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"Boring" is the best kind of weather

The perfect weather is when you go outside without having to think about what to wear. The sun is shining and a wind may be blowing but the temperature is just as it is in your home; you might go out in just a shirt or, if it is a bit chilly that day, get the chance to throw on your favourite jacket.

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This evening, I read Jeremy's IndieWeb Carnival invitation post, in which he invites readers to write about the kind of weather they like most. In the beginning, Jeremy notes "Talking about the weather (and doing nothing about it) is a fact of life for British and many other societies." This got me thinking about the interactions I have that concern the weather. I sometimes randomly remark on the weather, start calls with a discussion on the weather, talk with delivery drivers about the weather. The weather

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Like I said, Monday offered perfect weather to extend my customary long bike ride. A lot. Instead of stopping at the Raccordo, I had resolved to continue to the sea and come back by train from Ostia. I made it, and I enjoyed it despite some faily hairy passages. The way I went The first part of the ride is very familiar (and might be to you too if you have been following along) although I did start slightly further upriver than normal, where a new pedestrian bridge crosses the river just downstream of t

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Perfect Weather

The sky is clear celeste, unmarked by clouds. The wind is fresh, but not overly so. The temperature is a delicious 23°C. In other words, a perfect early autumn day. Yesterday was the same, maybe a touch windier, just the job for a very long bike ride. My point is that while this is very much one of my favourite kinds of weather, each kind of weather is conducive to its own special activity. Different people will have their own idea of what that activity might be. Today, sailing springs to mind, and for me

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Delightful Weathers

Deciding to host a blog carnival was the easy part. Actually doing the work took me right back to those wonderful merry-go-round rides of yesteryear, complete with steam driven organ, as opposed to all the shiny themed rides of the modern amusement park. But enough reminiscence. To work! In my prompt, I said that I was most interested in “the kind of weather you take most pleasure in” and everyone did just that. First up was Sara Jakša, which is only fitting as it was she who started the Indieweb Carnival

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IndieWeb Carnival October 2023: Using 4 E of Cognition to Conceptualise Self-Care

This article was written in the response to this month IndieWeb carnival hosted by Pablo on the topic of Self-Care and Routine. What is Self-Care For this month IndieWeb carnival, Pablo has invited us to share our though on our self-care routine. Though, the one thing that stroke me the most was the following part. Learning self-care has been something I've been working on a lot this year. It has been something I neglected for many, many years. It has helped me be more aligned and be more connected with my

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To the Sea (and Back)

Like I said, Monday offered perfect weather to extend my customary long bike ride. A lot. Instead of stopping at the Raccordo, I had resolved to continue to the sea and come back by train from Ostia. I made it, and I enjoyed it despite some faily hairy passages. The way I went The first part of the ride is very familiar (and might be to you too if you have been following along) although I did start slightly further upriver than normal, where a new pedestrian bridge crosses the river just downstream of t

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My kind of weather: just keep it dry

I’m writing this article for the IndieWeb carnival. Thanks to Jeremy for the prompt and for reminding me in a jolt that I signed up to host next month’s edition, a decision that I may regret when the time comes to actually write about my prompt. Listen… as long as humidity is low, I’m a happy lil’ dude. That’s really all there is to it. And maybe that’s why moving to Grenoble is making me so happy – it’s so much drier here than in Paris! I have not looked at a single stat before making this bold statement

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IndieWeb Blog Carnival Reminder

As the month turns, it seems like a good idea to drum up a little support for the IndieWeb Carnival, which I am hosting this month. The idea is simplicity itself. You write something on your own website that somehow addresses this month’s topic: ”My Kind of Weather”. You let me know that you have done so, either by sending a webmention or pasting a link to the article in the box below. If neither of those work, it is easy enough to find an email for me. One submission has already arrived, and I strongly

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Reply-My kind of weather

This post was written for this months IndieWeb carnival on the topic of My Kind of Weather. If you want to take part, then check the post linked in this paragraph and write as well. Growing up in Essex, along the Thames, my kind of weather is generally what we experience in Autumn, or Fall in the USA. Winds pick up and the days can get a little more overcast. Rain is abundant, clearing out the dust of Summer. There is still a warmth during the day, though morning & evenings carry a crispness in the air. Not

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IndieWeb Carnival September 2023: My Kind of Weather

This post was written for the this month IndieWeb carnival on the topic of My Kind of Weather. If you want to participate, then check the post linked in this paragraph and write as well. One thing that I have noticed a lot is, that I am not calibrated the same way as other people to the temperature. When I was around high school age, it could be minus degrees in celsius, and I would still be able to walk outside in short sleeves. These day, I would be wearing some sort of pullover in these temperature. And

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@etp nice bike! I've got an old Raleigh tourer that's also a great pleasure to ride

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@etp oh god. I have very traumatic memories of being young and stupid at Uni and trying, and failing, to stop using them on a bike with steel rims in the wet

Eat This Podcast

@fatrat And the suicide extension levers! 1979, and bought new by me, but I have no idea of the specific model.

Arthur Clune

@etp Classic retro with the drop levers with the cables out the top

willtmonroe

@jeremycherfas as someone who lives in a subtropical climate, rides in the summer and tries to spend time in Italy, I really enjoyed this. Especially the part about how it feels to have that ride under your belt, knowing that the worst heat is still to come.

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July 2023 IndieWeb Carnival Roundup

Last month I hosted the second edition of the IndieWeb Carnival, a challenge that invites you to write about a topic on your personal website in a given month. The IndieWeb Carnival rotates between hosts each month, who each choose their own topic. Last month's inaugural carnival, hosted by Sara, was on the theme of cooking. This month, Mark will be hosting, inviting anyone who wants to join to write about gardening on their blog. I chose the theme "moments of joy" for July, inspired by my series of blog po

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Send a Friend a Webmention Day or Some of my Thinking about Webmentions

Today is our first send a friend a webmention day. Based on the description and especially the name of the event, it would make me overthink way to much about what to do. So instead, I am just going to see, how many webmentions can I send to a person. I mean, it is also a first of the yearly events, so the social expectations are not yet set. It is a lot easier to change them now, then it will be in a couple of years - assuming that the event continue. Webmentions are a quite interesting thing. For the tech

JohnBrady

@jeremycherfas Thanks for sharing this. "...for I have learned to be content..." Contentment (and discontent) as learnable things, something I could stand to think about more.

jeremycherfas

@jack Thank you.

jack

@jeremycherfas This is great. I'm glad you shared it.

Jeremy Cherfas

Coincidence, I'm sure, to be mentioning an author and his book on the same day seven years apart. * [An Extended Moment of Joy](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/an-extended-moment-of-joy) * [In the mind of the body politic](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/in-the-mind-of-the-body-politic)

Jeremy Cherfas

Here's another of my climate emergency rants from back in the day, this day in 2007 as it happens. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ruminate-on-this

Jeremy Cherfas

Take precautions: global warming deserves it | Jeremy Cherfas

On this day, 17 years ago, I linked to an article by James Hansen about the urgency of taking climate change seriously. We are still not taking it seriously.

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jeremycherfas

@jeremycherfas Back from the future; now corrected.

Sara Jakša

Carnival of IndieWeb June 2023 Edition - IndieWeb and Cooking Roundup post

Carnival of IndieWeb June 2023 Edition - IndieWeb and Cooking Roundup post This is the roundup post for last month IndieWeb carnival about cooking. For the next month topic, go over to James', who is hosting the July IndieWeb carnival. Also, Jeremy also made the roundup post for this edition of IndieWeb Carnival as well, so check this one out as well. In my oppinion, it is better written then mine. So last month we got the first edition of the IndieWeb carnival. There were six submissions to the carnival. H

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More relevant than ever ... and yet, still very little progress.

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@jeremycherfas Ah, yes, I see. I was thinking more in case of dwindling diversity further along, but then it might not matter anyway.

jeremycherfas

@odd Not if you create a large enough population, maybe 1000-10,000, from existing breeds. You would have captured all the genetic diversity.

odd

@jeremycherfas Interesting. Not what I expected. Preservation for adding to the gene pools may still be valuable?

toddgrotenhuis

@jeremycherfas “Lucky Fish” seems like a really clever idea!

Jeremy Cherfas

Very happy to be reminded of this post today, while having singularly failed to resurrect pelf or anything else.

James' Coffee Blog

I learn in a similar way. I seem to learn more by working on a task—whether that is coding or writing about something I have coded—than I do through other mediums of learning. I'm excited to see what you come up with (maybe you'll even post some insights on your blog?). I done some similar tasks with my blog earlier this year and found the results really interesting.

Professor von Explaino

Me again :) That parameter looks like a bit-map thing where you join options together using "|". Does https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74557955/how-to-get-a-directory-path-in-pyqt6-via-qfiledialog help?

Professor von Explaino

I checked with ChatGPT (finding it useful for these things), and it's suggested "self.setDragDropMode(QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.DragDropMode.InternalMove)"; which was confirmed at https://reinhardm-dev.github.io/MzChess/_modules/gamelisttableview.html

jeremycherfas

@jean Thanks. The big drawback of WP is, of course, the fact that it is so popular, coupled with people not keeping up to date. Absolute honeypot.

jean

@jeremycherfas Thanks for sharing the results of your research. I find it fascinating to try to figure out what is happening and why. But since we curtailed the ability of spammers to set up trial accounts, I think about it a lot less, which is ultimately a good thing.

Jeremy Cherfas

See, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about: "kept me listening despite zero interest in the subject," said someone about the latest episode of Eat This Podcast, What Price Chicken Wings.

Jeremy Cherfas

Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all `venvs` and tinkering in `.zshrc` everything seems to be operational. For now ...

jeremycherfas

@lukas Thanks. I need to do some priority shuffling myself to avoid getting bogged down in repetition that goes nowhere.

lukas

@jeremycherfas Great to see your monthly review! I'm retrying to re-establish the practice for myself this year and just published my first.

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB Amen.

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas This is a maxim I need to post prominently in my kitchen.

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Jeremy Cherfas

Thanks for the tip. My MIDI keyboard thingie already does a bunch of stuff that I have barely explored, so for now another soft synth would be overkill. One to keep in mind though.

Aaron Davis

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Not sure how interested you are Jeremy, but I have really enjoyed playing around with Moog’s Model D app with Garageband and my midi keyboard thingie.

jeremycherfas

@topgold I normally do make a note, but this time, I failed to do that.

topgold

@jeremycherfas I also want to remember who recommended the titles I've enjoyed

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB I think there is already something of a counterculture building, not least here on MB. As people complain about the silos, worry about their privacy, etc, a few do actually leave we are the counterculture.

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB I’m not huge on audiobooks; too many podcasts backed up.

JMaxB

@JMaxB I can remember when many people of conscience talked about building a counterculture, and even made some moves in that direction. It would be good to hear more talk, and maybe see some action, around the idea of developing a digital counterculture.

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas Fascinating, and another big mark against Amazon. I've never listened to an audiobook, so no dog in the fight, but the "chokepoint capitalism" issue is very general and growing more so.

jeremycherfas

@ArnoldHoogerwerf Indeed. I am making a fresh effort to internalise that.

ArnoldHoogerwerf

@jeremycherfas Thanks for posting / linking this. I also loathe the process of ‘shameless self promotion’. For me, the last sentence in that piece seems to work well as a counter-measuring-mantra to me: "Don’t do it for yourself. Do it for your work."

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas I loved the observation of our doing endless comparisons of almost indistinguishable things, maybe especially when they're almost indistinguishable. "Should I get a Nikon or a Canon?" "Yes!"

Chris Aldrich

Thoughts about Robin Sloan’s Spring ’83 Experiment

I’ve been thinking about Robin Sloan‘s Spring ’83 Experiment on and off for a bit. I too almost immediately thought of Fraidyc.at and its nudge at shifting the importance of content based on time and recency. I’d love to have a social reader with additional affordances for both this time shifting and Ton’s idea of reading based on social distance. I’m struck by the seemingly related idea of Peter Hagen’s LindyLearn platform and annotations which focuses on taking some of the longer term interesting ideas as

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Peanuts, Senegal and Slavery A new book uncovers how peanuts enslaved people in Senegal and offered a way out of slavery for some

https://media.blubrry.com/eatthispodcast/p/mange-tout.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/peanuts.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:06 — 17.6MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Android | RSS | More Senegal, on the western edge of Africa, was an ideal base for the transatlantic slave trade, although the European powers that established themselves in the region found other goods to trade too. One of the most important was the peanut, brought by Portuguese explorers to Africa, where it grew well, tended mo

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In reply to https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/invalid-feeds-again. I’ve seen this before … By Jan Boddez In reply to https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/invalid-feeds-again. I’ve seen this before (developing your own feed reader really takes you places); in this case, there seems to be a hidden (Unicode) control character in between the opening paragraph tag and the word “April.” One that, when I select and copy the surrounding text (and with it, this character) into my browser’s address bar, shows up as a “card” that reads “0010,” which might mean “data link escape.” Actually, I’m seeing this post just fine precisely because I’ve instructed my feed aggregator to ignore this type of Unicode characters. Invalid feeds, again | Jeremy Cherfas www.jeremycherfas.net On May 10, 2022 Olen, BE • 17 °C, overcast clouds Also on Mastodon

I’ve seen this before (developing your own feed reader really takes you places); in this case, there seems to be a hidden (Unicode) control character in between the opening paragraph tag and the word “April.” One that, when I select and copy the surrounding text (and with it, this character) into my browser’s address bar, shows up as a “card” that reads “0010,” which might mean “data link escape.” Actually, I’m seeing this post just fine precisely because I’ve instructed my feed aggregator to ignore this ty

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas I did! Didn't follow his method exactly, but apparently close enough. His voice reminded me of Danny the Drug Dealer in Withnail & I, which added a little humor for me. Probably a regional accent familiar to anyone in the UK.

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB That's very good to hear. Did you sit through the video?

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas It really works. I just made a couple of baguette-style loaves without my usual improvised baguette pan, and the loaves stayed nice and tall while they rose.

Jeremy

A new way to shape a loaf

A couple of weeks ago, I read a fascinating post on The Fresh Loaf, in which Kendalman described his interesting approach to stretch and fold and offered an alternative explanation of what is going on, because he believes the conventional view is mistaken. As near as I can tell, he says that there are two glues at work in the dough, a short-acting glue that preserves the shape of the loaf for about 30 minutes, and a longer lasting glue that maintains the whole mass as a whole mass. Stretch and fold activate

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I hadn't realised one of the bloggers I used to follow had suddenly died a while ago (because I stopped following him). Today, though, I was reminded of something he wrote not 6 but 16 years ago that is remarkably prescient. RIP @LanceMannion

jeremycherfas

@JeremyWxBaker Yeah, sorry about that. www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/righ... I’ve been bringing in old posts day by day, and this was one of today’s. (Hard to remember what does and does not get shared when I POSSE in different ways.

JeremyWxBaker

@jeremycherfas what was the particular prescient piece?

cygnoir

@dejus Thanks for the update.

dejus

@cygnoir I raised it with the owner, who said it will be addressed as part of planned changes for OAuth support. Here's the relevant issue (that also links to the closed issue where I raised Micro.blog), if you want to encourage him directly.

cygnoir

@dejus Hi there! I'm wondering if you've had time to take a look at this. Sign me, She who revives old M.b threads. 😆

metbril

@jeremycherfas From what I've read their price range is lower than Remarkable. Although I wouldn't buy one myself, I would like to hold one for some time.

jeremycherfas

@metbril Yes, that looks a bit like the Remarkable tablet and although they are interesting I don’t think it would work for me.

metbril

@jeremycherfas The other day I read about supernote.com but I don't have any experience with it. I'm 100% in the Apple eco system.

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB Guilty as charged. And the difference, for me, is that I know I’m throwing my money away, but I am doing so very infrequently and I could happily give 90 million away.

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas I lived in a "Powerball" lottery state where the jackpot once climbed over $100 million, and people started lining up to buy tickets. I asked a couple of them "How would $100 million be any different from $10 million in your life?" They looked at me blankly.

jeremycherfas

@wfm I also find myself completely unable to understand the lure of even more money, beyond a certain threshold. But I accept that others may consider me weird. I’d also feel a lot better if those banks were partnerships so that bad times were shared too.

wfm

@jeremycherfas I also noticed the dichotomy between those two headlines. As Hamlet would tell us..something is rotten in the state of..

jeremycherfas

@artkavanagh Thanks. I probably won't do pencil either, if I go that route. But never say never ...

artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas Finger: I didn’t bother with a pencil.

jeremycherfas

@artkavanagh Tapping with a finger, or a pencil?

ton

@jeremycherfas yes, my wife opted for a wifi only ipad (wiht pencil though) which she uses to read a lot on.

artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas I had a low-end iPad about 3 years ago and found it excellent except for one thing: the screen wasn’t laminated so sounded hollow and a bit noisy when I tapped on it. A less noticeable effect of the absence of lamination was that the items onscreen didn’t seem to be directly under my finger. I don’t know whether they’ve improved the screens since. The screen certainly wasn’t a deal-breaker for me.

jeremycherfas

@ton The BOOX get good reviews, but having done some more research, maybe an iPad IS what I want. I was looking at the top end. But the plain and simple wifi only model, at under €400 (without pencil) might be the best value for money.

ton

@ton @jeremycherfas but my Nova-2 is likely a bit too small to your liking, re your remark about Kindle. There are bigger ones.

ton

@jeremycherfas I use a BOOX e-ink device. They have several models, all Android based, some also in color. There are others like Remarkable etc. Maybe something like that works for you (I'm pleased w my Nova 2 but still need to smoothen out my workflows for reading/writing on it, so can't give you any advice w.r.t. suitability to your PDF reading.)

jeremycherfas

@JMaxB Precisely.

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas Thought-provoking quote from Wodehouse. One big, big difference: even with all those outlets, you still had to submit your work and have someone decide that it's worthy of publication.

jeremycherfas

@wfm That’s very good to know. She is a wonderful, generous person.

wfm

@jeremycherfas I have to tell you that while driving home a few nights ago, my wife and I listened to and thoroughly enjoyed your chat with Rachel Roddy. Her A-Z of Pasta is on our kitchen shelves since Christmas.

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jeremycherfas

@sod Fair point. Maybe the simplest solution would be a feed from my Blurblog that I could subscribe to in a social reader and go from there.

sod

@jeremycherfas Yeah, I hear you. 😊 Would a built-in sharing function be less manual, though? I tried Newsblur's share to Twitter option just now, and the experience was pretty similar. I ended up with a tweet draft and had to manually hit the Tweet button to post.

jeremycherfas

@sod Yes, of course, and I do, but sometimes manual till it hurts, hurts.

sod

@jeremycherfas Maybe it's not what you want, but couldn't you just tap the article's title to open up the web view and from there share the link to your preferred Micro.blog client?

jeremycherfas

@dejus Even an RSS or Atom or JSON feed from one’s Blurblog would be a great help.

jeremycherfas

@dejus @cygnoir @toddgrotenhuis That would be brilliant. As @chrisaldrich explained at boffosocko.com/2021/12/2... it would probably be more useful to consider Micropub as a bridge to many different kinds of CMS. That need not be restricted to iOS.

dejus

@issimonwoods thanks, some good starting points there. I'll investigate further, and see what I can do.

issimonwoods

@dejus Did a quick search of the NNW repo and from a layman's perspective it looks promising. I know Manton is always willing to offer help where he can with this kind of thing, plus there's the Snippets framework and the Posting API document. Sorry if this isn't helpful; just a few guesses from a non-programmer. 😅

dejus

@cygnoir @jeremycherfas @toddgrotenhuis I am the current developer of the official NewsBlur iOS app. If someone can point to a guide or code for posting to Micro.blog from an iOS app, that may be something I could add, if the platform owner sees the value.

cygnoir

@chrisaldrich Thank you for joining the conversation at the NewsBlur forum. As a woman who isn't a tech professional, my voice doesn't carry very far in those forums, so I appreciate the signal boost. // cc: @jeremycherfas @toddgrotenhuis

jeremycherfas

@svenseebeck possibly so. The point that @chrisaldrich made in more detail than I did is that Micropub would enable sharing even more widely. Any of the current feed readers could do it if they chose to.

svenseebeck

@jeremycherfas I’m not using it at the moment but if I remember right, Feedbin can share to M.B. Though not automatically. Not sure if that helps now.

toddgrotenhuis

@chrisaldrich @jeremycherfas @cygnoir this support would cause me to go back to NewsBlur from Inoreader

chrisaldrich

@jeremycherfas @cygnoir Unless and until Newsblur were to support Micropub, I notice that it does have IFTTT support, so one might be able to carefully write some recipes that allows some functionality to dovetail with any website that has a micropub endpoint. I’ve documented some similar work I did using IFTTT to get the Inoreader feed reader to post reads, bookmarks, and replies to others’ sites to my WordPress website using micropub. I would abandon Inoreader for a reader with good Micropub support.

Chris Aldrich

Replied to Sharing to micro.blog by Samuel Clay (The NewsBlur Forum) Sure, I’d love to support it. What’s the URL you want NewsBlur to share to? I can have it auto-fill in the title and url. Also, for bonus credit, what’s the url of the favicon? There’s two different discussions happening here, one seemingly about posting to micro.blog and the other about posting to any website that has a micropub endpoint. Since micro.blog accounts all have micropub endpoints the second method subsumes the first. In general most micropub clients authenticate using an IndieAuth mechanism which micro.blog also supports and this allows apps (Newsblur in this case) to send formatted data (an article’s title, URL, and a person’s reply, for example) to be published on third party websites. Developers interested in the pieces might inquire in the IndieWeb chat about the quickest and easiest method for implementing or to see some other examples and find open sourced clients/servers that already do most of the heavy lifting: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev. It would be great to see Newsblur added to the growing list of clients that can publish to independent third party websites. Unless and until Newsblur were to support this, I notice that it does have IFTTT support, so one might be able to carefully write some recipes that allows some functionality to dovetail with any website that has a micropub endpoint. I’ve documented some similar work I did using IFTTT to get the Inoreader feed reader to post reads, bookmarks, and replies to others’ sites to my WordPress website using micropub. I would abandon Inoreader for a reader with good Micropub support. h/t to Jeremy Cherfas’ post for bringing this to my attention. Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format StatusPosted on December 24, 2021 1:59 pmDecember 24, 2021Author Chris AldrichCategories Reply, Social StreamTags Micropub, NewsBlur, RSSSyndicated copies: Micro.blog Related Posts

There’s two different discussions happening here, one seemingly about posting to micro.blog and the other about posting to any website that has a micropub endpoint. Since micro.blog accounts all have micropub endpoints the second method subsumes the first. In general most micropub clients authenticate using an IndieAuth mechanism which micro.blog also supports and this allows apps (Newsblur in this case) to send formatted data (an article’s title, URL, and a person’s reply, for example) to be published on t

cygnoir

@jeremycherfas Every time I use NewsBlur (every day) I am irritated that there isn't a method to share stories directly from my feed reader to Micro.blog. Thanks for caring about it too!

jeremycherfas

@cambridgeport90 Is what an app of some sort? Newsblur? Yes, a rather good RSS (and email newsletter) feed reader. Or is this a swipe at my comment about Pipes that I am failing to fully appreciate?

cambridgeport90

@jeremycherfas Is that an app of some sort?

jeremycherfas

@jeremycherfas Tagging @cygnoir with this as she was the first person to suggest that Newsblur enable cross-posting to m.b and wondering what it would take to make either that or full-on micropub support happen.

simonwoods

@jeremycherfas So good I even got into Stingray; I never got any of the really good big toys but always wanted the lot. Yay! 🎉 That'll be especially good for the SSD, although I think you have to have the right drive and cable and whatnot... although I'm sure the better ones will be easier to find and get as time passes so it's good either way.

jeremycherfas

@cn Miss Penelope, I knew I could count on you.

cn

@jeremycherfas yes, Parker

simonwoods

@jeremycherfas Yep you're right. As far as I know Thunderbolt basically means you get USB with capacity for much faster transfer of data, or more data, or both... something like that. So I think you can use them as USB-C ports, even if you don't want or need the extra power?

arush

@ladyhope Actually i think my missing it has something to do with the way my notifications are configured on the phone, or, rather, not configured.

simonwoods

@jeremycherfas I was confused for a moment; when you say lightning you must mean thunderbolt? According to the specs page that machine should have two thunderbolt + two USB 3 ports.

jeremycherfas

@jeremycherfas @ton pointed out that leaks suggest the bigger new iMac, due early next year, will have several usb-c ports. That might make my new swap soon strategy more appealing than my older buy and hold strategy.

ladyhope

@arush How did you manage to miss that?? Then again I managed to miss this. We need some kind of email notification lol.

Pete Brown

If you want to find interesting things on the Internet, you need to go do the work of looking for them.

In memoriam Google Reader | Jeremy Cherfas: Of course, one of the huge plus points of the big silos is that they supposedly make it easier to get your stuff in front of gazillions of people. Maybe. I have no idea how many new, regular readers come here from a social post and then cut out the middle man. Maybe some. But discoverability remains a problem. That’s why I like the very nineties idea of a webring, connecting websites that have something in common, even if that is only that they belong to the sa

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@jeremycherfas I didn’t realize that it was quite so long ago that Google Reader departed this life. As I’ve said before, I didn’t use it — in fact, I don’t think I knew it existed until I heard that it had ceased to do so. At the time, I was using Safari as my feed reader.

capjamesg

I learn in a similar way. I seem to learn more by working on a task – whether that is coding or writing about something I have coded – than I do through other mediums of learning. I’m excited to see what you come up with (maybe you’ll even post some insights on your blog?). I done some similar tasks with my blog earlier this year and found the results really interesting.

arush

@ladyhope @jeremycherfas I can't believe I missed this. Definitely going to continue it.

Aaron Davis

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I have long searched for a means of keeping record of the podcasts I listen to. Jeremy Cherfas recently discussed the script that he uses, but this was via Overcast which is not on Android. I have tried using URL Forwarder, but have had issues as the share feature includes the title and URL. I also tinkered with sharing via my feed reader, but that felt tedious. I previously used Podcast Addict. I was happy enough with everything, other than the fact that I was unable to pull my listening data. In my semi-r

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@pimoore @artkavanagh @Alligator Such difficult decisions we all face.

jeremycherfas

@cn Very true. And I had actually thought of that because the one under my desk made last winter almost bearable.

pimoore

@Alligator @artkavanagh I’m the opposite now in telling myself never to shave mine off again. Every time I have because I got “sick of it”, I quickly realized I was more sick of the man baby that resides underneath.

Alligator

@artkavanagh I feel the same!

artkavanagh

@Alligator Oh, the urge keeps coming back all right, but I’ve never been satisfied with the results and I’m unlikely to be in the future.

Alligator

@artkavanagh Why did you resolve to never again grow a beard? I've grown one a few times, and ended up not liking it, but the urge to try again keeps coming back!

artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas My mirror hasn’t fogged up yet but the weather is definitely colder. I’m resolved never again to grow a beard but I’m not at all confident in my ability to keep that (or any) resolution. In fact, I wish I hadn’t drawn it to my own attention.

cn

@jeremycherfas a Far infrared heater panel mirror could cloud the issue, by not fogging, and warming simultaneously?

jeremycherfas

@giov Thanks for those tips.

capjamesg

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Great blog post! It was a pleasure to help Jeremy!

giov

@jeremycherfas an easy way to remove the hard-coded credentials from code you want to share, is to pass them as environmental variables. So for example password = "some_pw" can become password = os.environ["SCRIPT_PASSWORD"], by importing the os library. An easy way to set environmental variables without having to tinker too much in your OS of choice, is to use a .env file and just load it from your script. Just make sure you don't share the .env file together with the code (by e.g. adding it to a .gitigno

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You make it what it is today. Forza!

Jeremy Cherfas

On this day in 2009, I never thought I would be directing this post to @danielpunkass https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-software-ate-my-homework-honest. Long may it continue.

artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas Glad to hear it.

jeremycherfas

@artkavanagh And survive, stronger!

artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas … or, how to wage biological warfare on yourself.

Jeremy

Resurrecting the Heidelberg Rye recipe

A little while ago I started to be more methodical about restoring some of the posts on my main website that had become disconnected as a result of various changes in the site’s back room. A few of those are bread posts that predate this site. Some of those I have already brought in here, while others I have not because they didn’t call to me. If I’m being methodical, however, I ought to be properly methodical. This is what I wrote back in 2009: Much of the bread you can buy in shops in Italy remains remar

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Bookmarked https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/instagrams-algorithmic-idiocy. “[B]eing banned for something as dumb … By Jan Boddez Bookmarked https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/instagrams-algorithmic-idiocy. [B]eing banned for something as dumb as this would make a good story. On Aug 27, 2021 Also on Mastodon

[B]eing banned for something as dumb as this would make a good story.

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@jeremycherfas Sure I could probably make a page.

James

Fixing a line width issue on this blog

A member of the IndieWeb community, jeremycherfas.net, informed me that the text on my blog posts was hard to read. This was interesting because I pay a lot of attention to making sure content on my site is readable. Jeremy made me aware of something that I had not considered in the design of my blog post pages: the line width. Researching the issue Line width refers to the width of the container in which words appear. When I designed this site, I decided that all of the text in blog posts would be equal

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@ladyhope A single page would work. Can you do that?

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@ladyhope I’ve been hearing adverts on podcasts for a service that sends weekly (?) prompts of that sort to you or someone you nominate and then turns the answers into a book, a kind of memoir. That might work for some people to share their life with younger generations.

jeremycherfas

@ladyhope That too sounds like a good thing to do.

jeremycherfas

@ladyhope Some super interesting things in there. You have done stuff I never have, and don’t imagine I ever will.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas I'd like to make a simple directory of these things. I was thinking about setting it up with Neocities, but I've lost my CSS about 10 years ago.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas THere a@jeremycherfas There aren't too many of those still around.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas That was just an example of what they used to be like. There's also this one. f.riday5.com

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas Generally when I say blog meme though, I mean the ones that used to take place on a weekly basis some were daily with questions. My next project is to revive that. I have a domain for an alternative to the former thatsmyanswer.com and will be posting questions several times weekly.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas OK here ya go. hopesnotes.net/2021/100-...

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100 things I've done blog meme.

jeremycherfas

@ladyhope Understood. And they’re not really my questions. I guess I could have put n/a for some but I felt it was better simply to ignore those. The one you linked to is interesting, although I’m not sure if the value of some of those prompts, for me.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas Not that that's offensive or bad in any way. However I just have to say n/a.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas Also we're both blind. You're asking lots of questions that aren't applicable.

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas I'll do my rendition of it, though.

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@jeremycherfas www.fromthissideofthepond.com/search/la...

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@jeremycherfas I've never had success with the bolding ones. I mean ones more like this. www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2021/08/c...

ladyhope

@jeremycherfas Wow OK yeah I didn't see this until today for some reason. Had headaches for 5 days last week.

jeremycherfas

@jeremycherfas Oops. Wrong date. I’ll fix it later.

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@jeremycherfas Nervous that my tag didn't reach @arush or @ladyhope so drawing their attention to this post of mine.

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@wearsmanyhats The label is one thing, the behaviour quite another. I confess, I had never paid any attention to Owen Jones.

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@artkavanagh @jeremycherfas Richard Dawkins is one of the main reasons why I no longer refer to myself as an Atheist. Similarly with Owen Jones, I used to like his writing but over time realised that he wasn't as right about things as he thought he was. Call out the extremists on all sides, in religion and politics.

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@jeremycherfas Owen Jones wanting to have things both ways as usual. “Make the case for atheism. No, not like that.”

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@giov We are few, but mighty.

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@jeremycherfas I'm with you on this one. I flinch every time "blog" is used instead of "post" :)

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…and terminological exactitude.

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Everyone loves a pedant. X

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reply Will Monroe | July 22, 2021 How to visit Pompei by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Vesuvius from Pompei Plenty of places will tell you why you should visit Pompei (and Herculaneum), what you should look out for, and what it all signifies. Not so many tell you how to visit. This is an attempt to fill that gap. Crucially, Pompei and Herculaneum are both pretty exposed; there is shad... My family longs to travel again. And if we could, we would travel back to Italy and visit Pompei, perhaps using Jeremy’s tips. Next year! Will Monroe Will Monroe is the Assistant Director for Instructional Technology at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He also teaches in the College of Human Sciences and Education at LSU. He received a doctorate in educational leadership and research with a concentration in educational technology from Louisiana State University. Subscribe to author feed Categories Microblog Reply Tags italy Syndication Links Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Learn More)

My family longs to travel again. And if we could, we would travel back to Italy and visit Pompei, perhaps using Jeremy’s tips. Next year!

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Blogs I follow using RSS

When I started working on my thermal printer project, I decided that I would start following blogs on RSS again. I wanted to stay up to date with some bloggers whose work I enjoyed and RSS was the best way to do so. While I have followed people on RSS before and stopped because it was hard to keep up with my feed, the thermal printer introduced something new that has kept me on the RSS wagon: a physical feed that I will only see once per day. I can check on Feedly but I don’t really do that. I often forget

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@cn Sort of. I want it to pump if there is flow, but it will do so only if it is on before there is flow. We shall see in the morning. Obviously a proper programmable socket would be better, but no time to get one.

cn

@jeremycherfas sounds like the opposite/reverse of a shower pump, which only kicks in when the output is opened 🚿

jeremycherfas

@rogerscrafford Right. I don’t use it often enough because I don’t often outline, but I should.

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@rogerscrafford Ah, Shoe; greatest news bird in the business.

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@jack I’ve just started thinking, and I’m in the awkward position of having a few clients,<10, some of whom have many more than 10 projects. So still thinking, which is good, and using Folding Text to move stuff around.

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: March 2021

Got my first dose of the AZ vaccine, which, while deflationary in the lack of fuss, was also definitely the highlight of the month. Highlights of the month: Started a mealworm farm for the birdies. Actually met some old friends for a rural lunch Movement in the plants on the terrace Got the Italian driving licence; good to 2025 Rewatched The Night Manager Dropped the monitor attached to the Pi, mini-screen obtained Installed pi-hole, but not, yet, for the wh0le network Took part in two online food things

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nice article!

jeremycherfas

@amit I enjoyed Ove a lot, don’t get me wrong. But it didn’t have the depth I want. I may well try some of his others, thanks to you.

amit

@jeremycherfas I'd loved this book - have become a big Backman's fan since then. I'd also enjoyed his latest book too, Anxious People.

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: February 2021

Still healthy, which is nice. The winter has been unseasonably mild and spring — surely a false spring — is upon us, with teeny leaves and flower buds and a promise of good things to come. Highlights of the month: Day One is good, and I really appreciate the on this day element. Far better than my memory. Pushed up a notch on the HIIT, and settling into it. Got yet another identity card that says I am entitled to be here. But no sign of my driving licence, since October 2019. Bought an item of clothing, t

cn

@jeremycherfas I would be looking for the most recently changed dot–files in my $HOME $ ls -alrt ~ | tail

fgtech

@jeremycherfas Yes, it’s totally rude to do that without warning. For Python, it’s a workaround that solves other thorny problems. It’s been a while since I’ve had to deal with those but hopefully the migration to Python 3 will smooth out many of those kinks.

jeremycherfas

@fgtech Thanks. That certainly seems correct, though it does seem a little rude.

jeremycherfas

@cn in my (limited) understanding, Anaconda sets up an environment that overrides my original $PATH. More than that I cannot say. I’d love to be able to persuade Anaconda to stop doing that unless asked to.

fgtech

@jeremycherfas My condolences. The connection might very well be that something messed around with paths so that specific libraries would be found first in a path search. Such tricks are common ways for Python developers to set up their environments.

cn

@jeremycherfas how exactly does something for python 🐍 break Perl? (Presuming your stats script is camel 🐪 based.)

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: January 2021

The subhead may make sense to people who were in the UK a good long while ago. They’ll remember too the hassle of travel to “the continent,“ never mind the freedom to move around, work, marry, all of it. All gone now, and for what? On the plus side, we’re healthy, leading a reasonably good life in a reasonably functional country. And after throwing in the towel on javascript and graphical data, received some really great assistance from Professor von Explaino and began to make teeny bits of progress. Highl

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: December 2020

The subhead may make sense to people who were in the UK a good long while ago. They’ll remember too the hassle of travel to “the continent,“ never mind the freedom to move around, work, marry, all of it. All gone now, and for what? On the plus side, we’re healthy, leading a reasonably good life in a reasonably functional country. And after throwing in the towel on javascript and graphical data, received some really great assistance from Professor von Explaino and began to make teeny bits of progress. Highl

Professor von Explaino

Reply: beginning-to-understand-javascript-a-bit

Blimey, what a great end-of-year gift I have received. Glee! A remaining big question, though, is this: the Prof. draws the chart inside the function he created. I got stuck because I thought I had to create the data objects in a function and then return them to the chart. We could write the tableToChart to return just the object and plug that into the chartist function call like Chartist.Line('.ct-chart', tableToObject(document.getElementById('table-source')), base_design); with tableToObject just

Jeremy Cherfas

Beginning to understand javascript, a bit

Blimey, what a great end-of-year gift I have received. Professor Von Explaino heard my sad cry for help and gave me almost exactly what I was hoping for in his post Chartist.js data from table. What’s so great about it, is that he actually explains in detail what each part of his code does, which means that rather than slavishly copy and paste, I can try to understand. My main takeaway from this is that javascript is what I would call terse, by which I mean that a single command does an awful lot of things

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Reply: beginning-to-understand-javascript-a-bit

Blimey, what a great end-of-year gift I have received. Glee! A remaining big question, though, is this: the Prof. draws the chart inside the function he created. I got stuck because I thought I had to create the data objects in a function and then return them to the chart. We could write the tableToChart to return just the object and plug that into the chartist function call like Chartist.Line('.ct-chart', tableToObject(document.getElementById('table-source')), base_design); with tableToObject just

Eat This Podcast

I see no breakage, just your excellent offer. I will DM you later today. Thank you.

Professor von Explaino

Reply: 100 FORMAT (11HHELLO WORLD) | Jeremy Cherfas

What I would absolutely love, and might even be prepared to pay for, would be to have a live human being explain some basic ideas to me. I'm probably not in the same timezone but happy to chat through any concepts/ co-code things if you want.

Jeremy

Neapolitan taralli

A couple of summers ago, we arrived on Ischia in that dead time, too late for lunch, too early for an aperitivo, and famished. The tavola calda just down the road didn’t have much left, but we took some of what there was and then I noticed on the counter a jar of large circular things, with almonds. Presuming them to be some kind of ciambelle, I confidently ordered two of them as a nod towards dessert. When we came to eat them, we were suprised, very pleasantly so, to find them intensely savoury, very sho

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Monthly report: November 2020

All clients have discovered unspent money and are rushing to dole it out before the end of the year, because if they don’t, they won’t have it next year. Which is crazy, and leads to some rough days, but is, on balance, good for me. Back in a lighter lockdown, and discovering that what this year has shown more than anything else is that we need one another more than we need outside things, but outside things do add to life. Highlights of the month: Inherited a first-generation iPad and it does the job,

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@jeremycherfas Of course, if I had been smart, I would have titled it something like “Reducing my Dependence”. mbnov

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Monthly report: October 2020

The good news is that my new passport arrived on Monday (first in November, but worth a mention). The bad is that we’re looking at another lockdown, albeit slightly lighter, and it seems highly unlikely that I’ll need a new passport before 2021 at the earliest. But we did manage a couple of days away in Florence, soaking up some culture to last through the dark days ahead. Marketing the podcast — at least as far as buying €30 of advertising on FB goes — was a complete bust. Not one new listener that I could

jack

@jeremycherfas Thanks, I'll check that one out.

jeremycherfas

@jack I use the Johnson & Johnson 7 minute workout app on iOS.

jack

@jeremycherfas That's encouraging! What app do you like?

bsag

@jeremycherfas No problem! Probably a good idea to reduce the style sheet down. The whole Tailwind style sheet is pretty hefty.

jeremycherfas

@bsag Thanks you for prompting and encouraging me. I do think the next step will have to be installing and reducing the style sheet.

bsag

@jeremycherfas Glad you got it sorted out! It is working really well.

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: September 2020

The seasons changed, with a vengeance. We just emerged from a week of cold, torrential rain. I got soaked at least three times, two of them standing obediently in a socially distanced line outside the post office. And one of those was to send my passport off for renewal. At this point, it is a toss-up whether Covid delays my ability to travel until after the new passport returns or whether Covid delays the return of my passport so that I am not able to travel when I would like to. Hey ho. Highlights of the

jeremycherfas

@simonwoods Very true. We do tend to lose sight of the good, old, web

simonwoods

@jeremycherfas The folks at the Internet Archive are a great reminder of the good people have been working on for much longer than any of the bad in the modern web.

Frank Meeuwsen

Meer Alfed, minder Typinator?

Ik las over Ton’s overstap van TextExpander naar Alfred. Ik heb al jaren geleden afscheid genomen van TextExpander, inderdaad vanwege het abonnementsmodel. Ik heb geen problemen met terugkerende abonnementen, maar dan moet de reden wel passend zijn. Voor een programma wat op slimme wijze je sneller laat typen, zag ik niet de meerwaarde van een abonnement. Ik stapte over op Typinator. Als ik me goed herinner, was de belangrijkste reden omdat Alfred in die tijd al wel snippets had, maar die waren nog niet zo

Chris Aldrich

Favorited Our Daily Bread by Jeremy Cherfas (Eat This Podcast) Our Daily Bread was a contribution to the Dog Days of Podcasting, with an episode every day through the month of August 2018. I obviously don’t post favorites on my website very often, but occasionally I’m reminded of small things in life that I really love. Jeremy‘s depth of research, effort, and love of the subject really shines here. Definitely worth multiple listens as you have the time to savor it… Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format LinkPosted on September 22, 2020 2:05 pmSeptember 22, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories Favorite, Social StreamTags Eat This Podcast, podcastsSyndicated copies: Twitter icon Related Posts

I obviously don’t post favorites on my website very often, but occasionally I’m reminded of small things in life that I really love. Jeremy‘s depth of research, effort, and love of the subject really shines here. Definitely worth multiple listens as you have the time to savor it…

James Gallagher

James Gallagher in reply to: @jeremycherfas I am presently feeling the same way. I have a lot of different ideas but every time I create a new service it just adds another layer of complexity to my stack. I do not have the bandwidth to work on as many ideas as I have. I should do a review like your one to determine what really matters for me.

I am presently feeling the same way. I have a lot of different ideas but every time I create a new service it just adds another layer of complexity to my stack. I do not have the bandwidth to work on as many ideas as I have. I should do a review like your one to determine what really matters for me.

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: August 2020

A very quiet month at home, although with a fair bit of paid work to do. Got it done, mostly, a little bit late. The great treat was to see the plants on the terrace do better than ever because we were here to give them a bit of attention, even though it is impossible to keep on top of the various sap-sucking insects. Highlights of the month: Coldest riverine dip ever in Rieti New activity monitor, fiddly but fun Preserved zucchini sott’olio and pickled cucumbers A slightly warmer dip at the Mole di Narni

Chris Aldrich

Replied to Structured data for book reviews by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Almost a week ago, I noted a blog post by Ana Ulin: Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts. Ana added a section to the front matter of her book posts that contains information about the book in question, including her rating. She was kind enough to share ... This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me happy about the IndieWeb! One person tinkers around with an idea and posts about how they did it. Someone else sees it and thinks it’s cool and wants it for themselves. They then modify it for their system, maybe with some changes or even improvements, and post the details on their site. They’ve both syndicated copies to IndieWeb news or to the IndieWeb wiki, so that in the future, others looking for that sort of UI research or examples can find them and potentially modify them for their own personal use. And the cycle begins anew… Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format StatusPosted on August 30, 2020 11:50 amAugust 30, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Reply, Social StreamTags IndieWebSyndicated copies: Hypothesis icon Related Posts

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me happy about the IndieWeb! One person tinkers around with an idea and posts about how they did it. Someone else sees it and thinks it’s cool and wants it for themselves. They then modify it for their system, maybe with some changes or even improvements, and post the details on their site. They’ve both syndicated copies to IndieWeb news or to the IndieWeb wiki, so that in the future, others looking for that sort of UI research or examples can find them and poten

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Pesos Instagram to Known

How to here : https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/pesos-from-instagram-to-withknown

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Monthly report: July 2020

Not a huge amount to report this month, mostly because we were on holiday for a little more than two weeks, and a glorious holiday it was too. We are very fortunate not to be in either of our home countries, so were able to enjoy travelling, for one thing, and great places to travel to, for another. And I promised myself I wouldn’t bang on about the tragic landscape of dead olive trees in Puglia, so I won’t. Highlights of the month: The holiday, obvs., … … although the new car played up. It is a hybrid, a

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PESOS from InstaGram to WithKnown | Jeremy Cherfas

Easy and simple solution to sync from InstaGram to Known.

Mike Williams

Yes Jeremy!

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: June 2020

Rushing this out, a little, because tomorrow we hit the road and I know that if I leave, it won’t happen. So, possibly sketchy, but done. Highlights of the month: A car, new to me, and the old one trashed; a shame, because the motor was perfectly fine. Just the rest of it was not. New barbecue too, inaugurated with a good steak, thanks to the Thermopen. Eat This Newsletter no longer on the site. It will go to Tw and FB each time, and that’s all. Apart from subscribers. First dinner out at friends. So plea

Jeremy Cherfas

Monthly report: May 2020

For us, another good month. Things are slowly becoming easier; making sure I have gloves and a mask in my pockets when I go out is becoming a habit. Washing hands when I get back in has been for a long time. It’s great that the park is open, even if it is overrun most of the time. Children being at home can’t be easy. Everything has really been rather good. I missed the travel I had booked, but the online Dublin Gastronomy Symposium was very enjoyable and not nearly as difficult as I feared it might be. Hi

Jeremy Cherfas

Code and living processes

My online chum Lewis Coles has, like everybody and their dog, been baking bread in these troubled times, and he’s not happy. Lewis is a software engineer. I can’t be sure, but I guess that he thinks that if you follow a set of instructions, you should end up with the same result every time. So he’s understandably peeved. “Why the hell are the instructions to make bread, so poor,” he asks, preceded, of course, by “Of course I’m not serious, but …” I take his point. Judging by the questions that come up in

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💬 Webmentions from Instagram?

Jeremy, I was just looking at the Eat This Podcast siteEat This Podcast site and noticed that many of your webmentions actually come from Instagram. I did not think that Brid.gyBrid.gy?

Aaron Davis

My reference was to the 8 minute mark where Margot talks about the puritans and the association between spice and self-pleasure. If possible, click to play, otherwise your browser may be unable to play this audio file. Reminded me of a TISM song, Whatareya? Although that might not be your taste 🙂

Aaron Davis

🎧 Disputations about taste

Jeremy, I was intrigued by the discussion of the taste for chilli food.

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Read A garden with a water feature by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) People have written some interesting things following on from the pop-up IndieWebCamp that Chris Aldrich organised a couple of weeks ago. The Garden and the Stream set out to compare and contrast wikis and weblogs and how the two might be used. It was a terrific success, and I’m sorry I wasn’t a... Nevertheless, the very fact that I am going through my notes reflects a new habit I am trying to build, of setting time aside every week, and sometimes more often, deliberately to tend the oldest notes I have and the notes I created or edited in the past week. Old notes take longer, because I have to check old links and decide what to do if they have rotted away. Those notes also need to be reshaped in line with zettelkasten principles. That means deciding on primary tags, considering internal links, splitting the atoms of long notes and so on. At times it frustrates me, but when it goes well I do see structure emerging and with it new thoughts and new directions to follow. ❧ This is reminiscent of the idea that indigenous peoples regularly met at annual feasts to not only celebrate, but to review over their memory palaces and perform their rituals as a means of reviewing and strengthening their memories and ideas. Annotated on May 09, 2020 at 07:17AM Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format LinkPosted on May 9, 2020 7:20 amAugust 8, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Memory, note taking, Read, Social StreamTags indigenous peoples, thought spaces, wikis, ZettelkastenSyndicated copies: Hypothesis Related Posts

Nevertheless, the very fact that I am going through my notes reflects a new habit I am trying to build, of setting time aside every week, and sometimes more often, deliberately to tend the oldest notes I have and the notes I created or edited in the past week. Old notes take longer, because I have to check old links and decide what to do if they have rotted away. Those notes also need to be reshaped in line with zettelkasten principles. That means deciding on primary tags, considering internal links, splitt

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@cn Fixed, thanks.

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Monthly report: April 2020

April was OK. We are much more fortunate than most, enjoying one another’s company, having a terrace, good ingredients nearby, jobs. We’ve got it all. Utterly selfishly, when the lockdown eases on Monday and the park opens, I'd prefer it to be open only to those of us who really want to know how nature took back ownership of the place, even if only temporarily. I know that’s not going to happen. Nor are the roads going to stay car-poor for long. But I can dream. Highlights of the month: This! Launched t

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No doubt many have already seen that Springer has released about 500 books for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July. A bit of Googling will reveal people who’ve already written some code to quickly download them all in bulk as well. I’m happy with doing things manually as there’s only a handful of the 8GB of textbooks I’m interested in. Browsing through, I’ll note a few that look interesting and which foodies like my friend Jeremy Cherfas may enjoy. (Though I suspect he’s likely read them already, but just in case…) Food Analysis, ed. S. Suzanne Nielsen Food Analysis Laboratory Manual by S. Suzanne Nielsen Brewing Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Michael Mosher and Kenneth Trantham Food Fraud Prevention: Introduction, Implementation, and Management by John W. Spink Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format StatusPosted on April 28, 2020 9:01 amAuthor Chris AldrichCategories Education, Food, Mathematics, Social StreamTags coronavirus, Springer, textbooksSyndicated copies: WordPress icon Related Posts

No doubt many have already seen that Springer has released about 500 books for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July. A bit of Googling will reveal people who’ve already written some code to quickly download them all in bulk as well. I’m happy with doing things manually as there’s only a handful of the 8GB of textbooks I’m interested in. Browsing through, I’ll note a few that look interesting and which foodie

strandlines

@cn I've added that to the CSS and had a look on Firefox - looks like thats sorted now. Thanks @jeremycherfas for flagging it up and thanks again @cn for the code. 🙏

cn

@strandlines you might be able get them to show in Safari too…

strandlines

@cn thanks for the code snippet. I will have a fiddle around and see if I can fix it.

strandlines

@jeremycherfas yes, thanks for posting this. @cn

jeremycherfas

@cn I'm sure that's right.

cn

@strandlines it looks like the inline SVG nested in the <span> with inline styles also need styling for Firefox e.g.: #kind-menu .svg-icon svg { max-width: 1rem } @jeremycherfas

jeremycherfas

@strandlines Can you see this www.dropbox.com/s/fcpbh7s...

strandlines

@jeremycherfas ooh - that’s strange. I don’t see them. Other than a mb icon, I don’t have any others. At least, from my end that’s the case.

jeremycherfas

@strandlines I meant the giant icons at the bottom right of the footer.

strandlines

@jeremycherfas thank you! I shall probably make some more this weekend. I had to look up fatwigoos - I assume you mean where I have the webring links. I copied the code from somewhere and haven’t tidied it up yet.

jeremycherfas

@strandlines Looks good; well done. Are those fatwigoos on your site, bottom right? Not sure where the sizing should go, but it looks off to me.

Stephen P

Have intended to give sourdough a go for a little while now, so with it being the Thing To Do while we are hunkered down in our vaults, I decided now was the time. Got some great advice from Jeremy Cherfas over at Micro.blog on getting a starter going, so thanks to him. Started one last weekend and then this weekend made my first loaf. Really quite pleased with it. More dense than I hoped but was even textured and tasted delicious.

strandlines

@jeremycherfas I’ll post a picture as a separate post as I can’t include one in a reply.

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon Excellent news. More or less. If it doubles in volume within 12 hours, and doesn't smell funky, give it a whirl.

jeremycherfas

@strandlines Pictures or it didn't happen. I am so happy for you. Could be over or underproofed, but that barely matters. You're on the path now.

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Eat This Newsletter 122 Ecumenical

Other diseases still matter. Olive “leprosy” remains serious. The science. The Counter dug deep into the mysterious flour shortage. Chickens and hares like unto gods, says The Guardian, and long before Easter. How Maxwell House Coffee appropriated Passover. In 2006, it seems I had a premonition about empty tomb cookies, recently brought to light. No related posts.

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@jeremycherfas all right I think I’m back on track! Once I’m at 1:2:2 I can start using it to bake?

strandlines

@jeremycherfas one loaf made yesterday. A little bit dense (I think I over-proved it) but an even texture and tasted like the real thing! My family enjoyed it so I take that as an endorsement. Thanks for your guidance.

jeremycherfas

@strandlines Very good sign!

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@seishonagon And the temp? The thing is, you do better at not overfeeding by feeding a little, more often. That way, you maintain the acidity and the activity of the good bugs. So 4:1:1 starter:flour:water is fine at the outset, waiting for it to rise before the next feed. Then 3:1:1 to 1:1:1 and once it is reliably doubling within 8-12 hours at 1:1:1 yuou're good to go and to move feeding out to 1:2:2 and beyond.

strandlines

@jeremycherfas I was rather hoping to make some at the weekend so thanks for the advice! It is really quite chatty this morning, making ‘glop’ noises.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas i was trying not to over feed so I was looking at every two days.

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon oh dear. You could try resurrecting. But it doesn’t sound good. How often were you feeding before? At what temperature?

jeremycherfas

@strandlines sounds good to me. I reckon you could go for a trial bake on Sunday or Monday, with the possibility that it won’t be quite ready yet.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas dead in the water... i woke up yesterday to a flat, lifeless badly smelling glob. I’m going to have to start again!

strandlines

@jeremycherfas mine is nearly doubling in size in a 12hr period. Am feeding twice a day and have got it in the airing cupboard.

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon @strandlines So, where are you all now?

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@seishonagon @strandlines OK, that's excellent news. But it is easy to become overconfident at this stage. You still need to build up acidity. That means not overfeeding. So, stir up what you've got, remove about 10 g to a clean container, and feed the same weight each of flour and water.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas oh bubbles galore!

strandlines

@jeremycherfas 48hrs in and I have bubbles.

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon How is it doing now? Should be definite signs of activity.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas got it!

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon Yes. Give it 48 hours. The goal it to build up acidity. So next time, feed 20 and 20. You don’t want to dilute too much at this stage.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas yeah I have 40g. Let's say there were a couple bubbles :-D I'll go slower now. So ... just watch and wait?

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon When you say fed, you mean you gave the one you began yesterday more flour and more water? So you now have 40g. Or you only just began? Because I would advise waiting until you see bubbles before you next feed. Slowly does it at the start.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas so I went ahead and fed the starter 10g each of water and flour. No luck on the whole meal for now but still looking.

jeremycherfas

@strandlines it is definitely worth a try, although one you receive as a gift will be truly yours soon enough.

strandlines

@jeremycherfas hmm, I have saved your post as I have got it into my head to make a starter. 🍞

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@seishonagon :thumbsup:

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas ok. Quarantine may make it hard to get the high protein flour but I’ll try. For now. 10g and 10g ... I’ll let you now!

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@seishonagon Mix 10 g of your flour with 10g of water, cover loosely and leave in a warmish place for 24 hours. In the meantime, try to find some rye flour or some wholemeal. And in 10 days, you will need wholemeal and strong (i.e. High-protein >13%) white flour. Let's check in again in 24 hours. This could be fun.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas I have white “000” flour and a scale that works to the gram - although I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy a newer one.

jeremycherfas

@seishonagon What flours do you have to hand? Do you have a good digital scale? That's important to know before we go further.

seishonagon

@jeremycherfas ok I’ll bite: what’s the best, no-pundit-BS, method to get a starter going? I‘m pretty sure I have 10 days in front of me ....

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Monthly report: March 2020

Favorited Monthly report: March 2020 by Jeremy Cherfas Reading Jeremy’s monthly notes about March and the shift into Italian lock-down, I got intrigued by a mention of how his ‘7-minutes’ had increased. 7-minutes? No idea what he meant, but a quick search in his own blog surfaced the first mention of it in his September 2019 notes: “Finally downloaded an app for the 7-minute workout thing. I’ve been looking at the regime for ages…” Which led me to YT to find a video of what those 7 minutes entail, or the 7

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Monthly report: March 2020

Hard to believe that this time last month I wrote “just another month. … Covid-19 had no impact.” Then came the lockdown. I didn’t even mark the date, just got on with it. I was immediately surprised by how well Italians were taking it, with orderly lines outside the open shops and supermarkets and no empty shelves inside. Truth be told, for me, personally, there honestly hasn’t been that much change. I can’t walk in the park, and when I do walk, which I must, I tend to circle around near to home. Meeting p

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Monthly report: March 2020

Favorited Monthly report: March 2020 by Jeremy Cherfas Reading Jeremy’s monthly notes about March and the shift into Italian lock-down, I got intrigued by a mention of how his ‘7-minutes’ had increased. 7-minutes? No idea what he meant, but a quick search in his own blog surfaced the first mention of it in his September 2019 notes: “Finally downloaded an app for the 7-minute workout thing. I’ve been looking at the regime for ages…” Which led me to YT to find a video of what those 7 minutes entail, or the 7

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Eat This Newsletter 120 An opportunity?

Extraordinary Fungal Masks used by the Indigenous People of North America and Asia The Italian Farmer Returning Chickens to the Wild. I don’t envy him collecting about 1000 eggs a day from the woods. How herring in the North Sea could sour the Brexit trade negotiations. If you don’t know it, and even if you do, listen to Singing the Fishing, in my opinion the best of the marvellous BBC Radio Ballads. Covid–19 and the future of food from Chris Smaje of Small Farm Future. Long-term hopeful. “The Gastronomica

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Fietsen naar werk

Het afgelopen weekend ben ik braaf binnen gebleven, in mijn eentje thuis. Maandag had ik nog een vrije dag, dus gister ging ik voor het eerst weer aan het werk, thuis. Normaal lopen we tussen de middag een rondje door de stad, en toen de tijd daar was dacht ik: ik ga gewoon naar buiten. Als ik voldoende afstand houdt tot mensen moet dat toch kunnen. Ik bleek niet de enige te zijn. Jeremy schrijft vanuit Rome over de parken, en vraagt zich af waarom die gesloten zijn. Buiten zijn is juist gezond, en er is ge

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Jeremy lives in Rome and recently wrote about some of the changes that have come about to his everyday routine since the Italian government instituted all kinds of rules in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. It’s easy to appreciate the luxuries we take for granted when we’re denied access to them. Things like morning cappuccinos, proximity to others, and the freedom to head outside without carrying any form of documentation are not the sort of liberties we expect to be deprive

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Monthly report: February 2020

Just another month, really, which has flown by. There've been some warm harbingers of spring and some icy, damp reminders of winter. Paid work has been fine, although I seem to have lost control of keeping my podcast pipeline flowing. A bit more deliberately active. Covid-19 had no impact on the month, although I have had to cancel one brief trip in March. Highlights of the month: A terrific chilli party featuring my own home-grown and dried ancho peppers Submitted my paper for the Dublin Gastronomy Festi

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Statisfaction

It is 160 days since I first noted that I would like to make use of Bise, Jason McIntosh's blog-readership reporter, 118 since I automated downloading the access logs. With half an eye on the project day at IndieWebCamp Austin, time to make good on my promise. Bise expects its log files to be named a certain way, which is not the way mine were named, but that proved relatively easy to overcome with the wonderfully powerful A Better Finder Rename. The latest version has filters that make it possible to renam

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Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) your Reddit saved post to your own IndieWeb website

IntroductionThis post has been heavily inspired by Chris Aldrich's recent post Using IFTTT to syndicate (PESOS) content from social services to WordPress using Micropub and finally finds an answer to the frustration I had ever since I realised it was not that easy to post bookmark on my Known-based website.When you own an IndieWeb website, it quickly becomes clear that you want to centralize all your content in one place, including the posts you save on Reddit.Now, I spend a fair amount of time on Reddit, b

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What to do with unwanted offspring

How about deep-fried chick on a stick? France to ban culling of unwanted male chicks by end of 2021 BBC news told us yesterday, and I could barely contain my disbelief. Unwanted males are the price you pay for specialised breeds, whether dairy cows or layer hens. If the ban is upheld, the only outcome I can foresee is more expensive eggs. The male chicks won’t be raised for meat because that’s another specialist rôle and they just can’t compete. I can’t see any kind of market emerging for chicken veal, eve

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Read The discovery metadata field by Matt Maldre (Matt Maldre) The internet would be a really interesting place if every article that was shared automatically had a “via link.” Ok, so the internet is already interesting. But what makes the internet such a great place is its connectivity. Everything is linked together. We can easily share a link to an article. So many links all … The discovery metadata field Read More » I’ve been fascinated with this idea of vias, hat tips, and linking credit (a la the defunct Curator’s Code) just like Jeremy Cherfas. I have a custom field in my site for collecting these details sometimes, but I should get around to automating it and showing it on my pages rather than doing it manually. Links like these seem like throwaways, but they can have a huge amount of value in aggregate. As an example, if I provided the source of how I found this article, then it’s likely that my friend Matt would then be able to see a potential treasure trove of information about the exact same topic which he’s sure to have a lot of interest in as well. One of the things I love about webmentions is that these sorts of links to give credit could be used to create bi-directional links between sites as well. I’m half-tempted to start using custom experimental microformats classes on these links so that when the idea takes off that people could potentially display them in their comments sections as such instead of just vanilla “mentions”. This could be useful for sites that serve as inspiration in much the same way that journalistic outlets might display reads (versus bookmarks, likes, or reposts) or podcasts could display listens. Just imagine the power that displaying webmentions on wikis could have for their editors to later update pages or readers might have to delve into further resources that mention and link to those pages, especially when the content on those linked pages extends the ideas? Tim Berners-Lee’s original proposal for hypertext was rejected because it didn’t bake bi-directional links into the web (c.f. Webstock ‘18: Jeremy Keith – Taking Back The Web at 13:39 into the video). Webmentions seems to be a simple way of ensconcing them after-the-fact, but in a way that makes them more resilient as well as update-able and even delete-able by either side. Of course now I come to wonder just how it was that Jeremy Cherfas finds such a deep link on Matt’s site from over a year ago? 😉 ↬ Jeremy Cherfas‘ update on the IndieWeb wiki ᔥ the IndieWeb-meta chat (2020-01-29) Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format LinkPosted on January 29, 2020 10:55 amFebruary 8, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social StreamTags brainstorm, citations, Curator's Code, discovery, hat tip, IndieWeb, microformats, via, Webmention, wikisSyndicated copies: Related Posts

I’ve been fascinated with this idea of vias, hat tips, and linking credit (a la the defunct Curator’s Code) just like Jeremy Cherfas. I have a custom field in my site for collecting these details sometimes, but I should get around to automating it and showing it on my pages rather than doing it manually. Links like these seem like throwaways, but they can have a huge amount of value in aggregate. As an example, if I provided the source of how I found this article, then it’s likely that my friend Matt would

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💬 Make it easy to be followed

Long live RSS Jeremy. I found this post via my feed.

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In the past I’ve used a short quote from a story I’ve written elsewhere along with a link on my site back to the paid item. It’s not something I’ve negotiated, but I see a link from my site as fair exchange for being able to repeat a few of my own words. I’d like to use RSS in a more sophisticated way, say filter out the links and likes from my main feed, so that readers interested in my journalism don’t need to follow ALL my brain dumps. At times I feel that being able to have a decent curated archive of m

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@JMaxB I suspect the scholars of the future might be thankful. I’d hate to be the PhD student candidate tabulating all those early tweets to figure out the late anthropocene diet.

JMaxB

@jeremycherfas When the net goes down, our era will leave behind less written records than the 14th century.

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Make it easy to be followed

Chris Aldrich has a long and throught-provoking piece asking How to follow the complete output of journalists and other writers?. It drew an interesting comment from Alexandra Samuel, putting the case that publishers who have paid for a piece have no interest in an author building her own audience. They would much prefer any link to come to their website, rather than the author's. She makes many good points too, about the different lenses through which writers, readers and publishers might view an author's

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💬 Make it easy to be followed

Long live RSS Jeremy. I found this post via my feed.

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In the past I’ve used a short quote from a story I’ve written elsewhere along with a link on my site back to the paid item. It’s not something I’ve negotiated, but I see a link from my site as fair exchange for being able to repeat a few of my own words. I’d like to use RSS in a more sophisticated way, say filter out the links and likes from my main feed, so that readers interested in my journalism don’t need to follow ALL my brain dumps. At times I feel that being able to have a decent curated archive of m

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Read Spam almost vanquished by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) I really wanted to post this 3 days ago, on January 10th. That would have been one year since I started recording the amount of spam I was getting over on my micro-site. I first noticed the problem in November 2018, and in January 2019 started keeping track. This graph shows all the data from the pr... Syndicated copies to:

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A tale of two coffee stories

Quite by coincidence, I listened to two podcasts about coffee back to back. Well, it wasn’t truly a coincidence; I saw that there were two in my queue and so I interfered with the ordering to listen to them one after the other. Anyway, Benjamen Walker’s Wake up and smell the coffee was the kind of podcast I wish I could do more often.[1] Benjamen took his growing love for coffee on a global tour of discovery that took in Paris, Copenhagen and Nairobi. I don’t know whether he planned it that way, or simply t

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The importance of bread in society: the etymology of Lord

In listening to The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition by Seth Lerer (Lecture 8), I came across an interesting word etymology which foodies and particularly bread fans will appreciate. Dr. Lerer was talking about the compression of syllables at the border of Old English and Middle English circa 1100 which occurred in such terms as hlaf weard, the warden (or guardian) of the loaf. Who is the guardian of the loaf? The hlfaf weard << The hlaweard << the laweard << the lord. This is the etymology of t

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Listened to The Curator's Code by Brooke Gladstone from On the Media | WNYC Studios If possible, click to play, otherwise your browser may be unable to play this audio file. One of the greatest assets of the internet is that it leads to great content discoveries that readers might not otherwise be able to find. One of the biggest liabilities is that content is frequently repackaged without crediting its creators or where it was found. Brooke talks to Maria Popova, editor of the website Brain Pickings and one of the creators of the Curator's Code, which seeks to honor the way people discover content online. hat tip: Martijn van der Ven and Jeremy Cherfas Originally bookmarked to listen to on November 23, 2019 at 10:38AM Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format AudioPosted on December 9, 2019 9:02 amAugust 8, 2022Author Chris AldrichCategories Education, Listen, note taking, Social StreamTags commonplace book, Curator's Code, hat tip, On the Media, reference management, viaSyndicated copies: Micro.blog Related Posts

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What happened to tagging? We did

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/what… I used tags a lot back when they were hot. I still use them a little on MacOS to, well, tag files. But I never was 100 percent on top of what they were for. Sometimes they were useful as a way of finding related things… but sometimes not. For me it felt like there was something powerful and useful that was just beyond my grasp. Never did discover what that was.

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Read What Happened to Tagging? by Alexandra Samuel (JSTOR Daily) Fourteen years ago, a dozen geeks gathered around our dining table for Tagsgiving dinner. No, that’s not a typo. In 2005, my husband and I celebrated Thanksgiving as “Tagsgiving,” in honor of the web technology that had given birth to our online community development shop. I invited our guests... It almost sounds like Dr. Samuel could be looking for the IndieWeb community, but just hasn’t run across it yet. Since she’s writing about tags, I c

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Followed Adam’s Apples

Followed Adam's Apples (Adam's Apples) Hundreds of apples, plus notes and comment on the harvest and more. An eleven year old continuously running blog dedicated to apples? Yes, please! Sign me up. I can only imagine that my following it is going to prompt a future interview by Jeremy Cherfas presuming he may not have come across this before. hat tip: Jeremy Felt and his obsession with apples Subscribed! The most perfect blog is this: https://t.co/IKnwuUEmSc 300+ reviews of apple varieties and news abo

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Read Modern Recipes: A Case of Miscommunication by Peter Hertzmann (dl.hertzmann.com) Chef and food instructor takes a look at the history of recipes and how they're frequently misinterpreted. (Hat tip to Jeremy Cherfas and his excellent Eat This Podcast episode Making sense of modern recipes: It’s not your fault; even professional chefs encounter problems for directing me to Hertzmann’s paper; some of my favorite episodes feature Jeremy interviewing him.) Keep in mind that the paper which is highlighted a

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Read RIP The Curator's Code by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Folksonomy is all very well, but my own set of tags leaves a lot to be desired. I'm forever giving things a tag and thinking I'll remember it and then discovering that not only do I not remember the tag, but also that the tag applies only to a single item, neither of which is very helpful. So I reso... Interesting I came across this via a Google search for Curator’s Code, and lo, and behold! There is my friend Jeremy holding forth with some

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Read Digging up the top science blogs of yesteryear by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) This bafflingly huge waste of my time (and yours) was prompted by two seemingly unlinked events. (Of course, no two events are truly unlinked, but let that ride.) First, there was a bafflingly stupid "article" from Mother Jones: Let’s Remember Some Blogs – Mother Jones. Why stupid? Because as fa... Syndicated copies to:

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Not entirely dead

Many reflections are prompted as I slowly continue to bring old posts in, based on what the logs tell me someone is looking for. One of today's old posts was remarkable because it was the first time that not a single important link in a reasonably substantive post was still alive. Dark and stars, from October 2006, contained three links.1 I diligently searched the Internet Archive, and it had one of them. It also helped me see that the other two had changed their main URL, and I was able to use search ther

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Chris Aldrich wanted to know if I have a feed of podcasts I've actually listened to. Last time I checked, the RSS feed was very broken, a symptom of a site-wide problem. But the h-feed works, so there's that. At https://www.jeremycherfas.net/stream

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Replied to Not enough people want Webmentions by Jeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas) A little while ago (on 19 October, to be precise) someone mentioned commento.io, an open source commenting system for websites. It looked interesting, so I tried to leave a comment on the post that mentioned it. Despite a few problems with login, I managed it, and asked whether Commento could play nicely with webmentions. No reply there, but I also took the matter up with support at Commento. Given that it’s a paid service, I

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🎧 Food waste is #Solvable | The Rockefeller Foundation

Listened to Food waste is #Solvable from The Rockefeller Foundation Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to activist and author Tristram Stuart about using food scraps to eliminate waste.</> Tristam Stuart is an international author, speaker, and campaigner on the environmental and social impacts of food. He is the founder of Feedback, an environmental campaigning organization that has worked in dozens of countries to change society’s attitude towards wasting food. His TED Talk on global food waste has reached over 1.5 m

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@joejenett I can't help but feel that I would be willing to pay for a full-service open-source replacement for Disqus. But that includes Webmentions.

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@jeremycherfas Because commento.io is a paid service, I can't help but wonder if they might see webmentions as competition (though we would see it more as an enhancement to their service). Just saying, but that's just me. 😎

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King content crowned again

As part of a project I have in mind, I've started downloading the logs of this site from my server. Looking at them, I'm still surprised by how many pages search engines seem to be looking for and failing to find. Two questions: Where are they coming from? Mostly, it seems, opensiteexplorer.com, which is now moz.com. Why doesn't my nifty rewrite rule redirect as I thought it did? 1 Anyway, I'm not actually pursuing answers in detail. Instead, I'm using the first three unfound pages each morning as a goad

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Everything is connected

Two days ago, I bookmarked a column by Tim Harford, remembering the great economist Martin Weitzman. I knew Weitzman only because a colleague made use of his ideas on how to prioritise the conservation of species, the Noah's Ark problem. He wanted to pay people to conserve quinoa varieties, but which ones deserved support? I was intrigued to discover Weitzman's objection to the idea that there's no point spending money on climate change now, because our descendents will be so much richer than us that they'l

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@TheDimPause I haven't been able to check that for certain. My ISP has a kind of public mesh in addition to my home wifi, and it is possible that the sporadic problems I have had while out and about could be when I am connected to that. I'll try and do more experiments to investigate.

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@jeremycherfas Is it just your home WiFi that’s causing the issue or any WiFi connection? If it’s just yours, is it possible there’s some router or broadband provider issues - port blocking or filtering - that’s upsetting Overcast?

jeremycherfas

@amit Thanks for the encouragement. I did tweet my post to @overcastFM, so he knows where to find me.

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@jeremycherfas I think if Overcast does break when you are connected to your wifi and not any other app, it itself is a problem. Sure, even Marco would love to look at this particular case 🙂

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I was wrong about this. Seems like my wifi plays a part too. But how to debug further? jeremycherfas.net/blog/overcast-…

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I have not exactly solved the problem, but I can say that posting a bookmark from Omnibear, using the Firefox extension, does work. That is, the description is received and used by Known.

Cédric Bousmanne

Stumbling upon your article probably saved me a lot of frustration since I was trying to do the exact same thing today. Since a year and a half has passed since you wrote this, i wonder if you did find another solution to automatically post bookmarks to your Known website? Maybe something based on microformats?

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I have not exactly solved the problem, but I can say that posting a bookmark from Omnibear, using the Firefox extension, does work. That is, the description is received and used by Known.

Jeremy Cherfas

Somewhere along the line, I seem to have lost a rather crucial line from the <HEAD>. Now, I hope it has returned. If it has, please accept my apologies for spamming micro.blog.

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I've been doing this for more than a month, and it works just fine.

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This is a test reply from Omnibear, to try and isolate why webmentions appear not to be being sent by WithKnown.

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@stream.jeremycherfas.net my problems are usually pebkac 🙃

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@jeremycherfas Murphy’s Law?

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It worked! Well done. Are you also in the IndieWeb IRC/Slack?

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IndieWebCamp Utrecht

In reply to IndieWebCamp Utrecht by Jeremy Cherfas Jeremy, is Compass php and mysql? In other words, should it be able to work on any basic hosting package? (Some of the more intriguing indieweb bits require more server access than I have on my hosting packages). And what was the brick wall about?

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IndieWebCamp Utrecht, Day 1: Readers, Discovery, Federated Search and More

It was a beautiful morning, cycling along the canal in Utrecht, for the first IndieWebCamp. In the offices of shoppagina.nl about a dozen people found each other for a day of discussions, demo’s and other sessions on matters of independent web activities. As organisers Frank and I aimed to not just discuss the IndieWeb as such, but also how to tap into the more general growing awareness of what the silos mean for online discourse. To seek connection with other initiatives and movements of similar minded peo

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Chris, I don't know what got you into all this strong names stuff, but I want to take the opportunity to point to my own pet peeve and a fine band, together at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/eagles-point-the-way

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@vasta Thanks. Now that I’ve done it I can see lots more I need to fix. But fun.

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@jeremycherfas Love the sparklines! Really interesting way to quickly visualize your spam deluge. Good luck with managing it all.

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Kudos!

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💬 Annual report: 2018

That is disappointing about the book Jeremy. I really enjoyed Our Daily Bread. I found it an enthralling topic and you manage to tie together some interesting stories. Listened to quite a few episodes twice.

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This post opened a whole can of worms relating to Grav's public comments plugin. Despite being authored by "Team Grav" it hasn't been touched for going on two years and just doesn't work. It sends the notification email correctly, but does not acknowledge the comment and does not save the data. I've taken a first look at the code, and it seems like I might just be able to wrap my head around it, but I will need hours free to do that. Hours that I do not currently have. I could disable public com

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👓 Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits | The Atlantic

Read Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits (The Atlantic) There’s a scientific reason no one outside the South can nail them. Anyone who follows Jeremy Cherfas‘ Eat This Podcast (or specifically his excellent microcast series Our Daily Bread) would have seen this one coming from a mile away. One can get some reasonably flaky and tender biscuits (and not hockey pucks as she describes) with all purpose flour using harder wheat, but having the alternate version certainly makes a nice difference.

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👓 It’s a link thing | Jeremy Cherfas

Read It's a link thing by Jeremy Cherfas This is too good to be true. Yesterday I read Sebastiaan's write-up of how he graphically a link between two individuals who both liked the same thing on the internet, and how, by doing that, he could alert himself to things he might like. Syndicated copies to:

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This is good news from Flickr. Flickr is amending their changes, to ensure that Creative Commons licensed photos will not be deleted from free accounts that are over their limit. (via Jeremy Cherfas) Flickr recently announced they would be deleting the oldest photos of free accounts that have more photos than the new limit of 1000 images. This caused concern as some of those free accounts might be old, disused accounts, where there are images with open licenses that are being used elsewhere. Flickr allows s

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Reply: It’s a Link Thing (Re: Graph-Based Indie-reading) Jeremy Cherfas This is too good to be true. Yesterday I read Sebastiaan’s write-up of how he graphically a link between two individuals who both liked the same thing on the internet, and how, by doing that, he could alert himself to things he might like. Today I finally see, in my reader, an earlier post from Kicks Condor, in which he talks about surfacing other readers who have linked to things he has linked and how that might help him to discover interesting things to read. That could even be the basis of a self-organising discovery engine. Clearly, they ought to know about one another. Maybe this post of mine will trigger that. Cool, yes, the alert worked! That alone is very worthwhile and goes a long way toward discovery. In a way, I think this is the most idealized form—you’ve just done the equivalent of “Hey, check this out” and I am very fortunate that I get to read your reasoning rather than to simply see a like in my box. I like that Sebastiaan’s end goal is to discover a person and not just CONTENT. To some extent the networks do this: mostly they promote trending squares of blurbs and images, but sometimes you see a note: “Follow these three people.” But you have no idea why and it’s not always based on similarity of our link neighborhoods, but based on geographical closeness or crossing some popularity threshold or your search terms and so on. I don’t want to be so allergic to social networks that I can’t see the positive tools—bubbling up blurbs and images can be good fun, liking things is effortless nudging—but I think the Indieweb has already improved on this because its protocols are so light that it forces the human connections. (The ‘homebrew website’ clubs are the opposite of viral marketing.) You could see these as counterproductive—but the problem with ‘productive’ protocols is that they become so saturated as to be useless. Google, for instance, is so good that it is useless. I still think algorithms are tremendously useful, particularly when the hypertexter controls the algo. And Sebastiaan is toying with this. I wonder to what degree his query language could simplified as to be more widely useful. Perhaps there is an Excel-type language that could become the dials for the ‘archivist’/‘librarian’/‘curator’ role. 26 Oct 2018 • topics: hypertext chain

Cool, yes, the alert worked! That alone is very worthwhile and goes a long way toward discovery. In a way, I think this is the most idealized form—you’ve just done the equivalent of “Hey, check this out” and I am very fortunate that I get to read your reasoning rather than to simply see a like in my box. I like that Sebastiaan’s end goal is to discover a person and not just CONTENT. To some extent the networks do this: mostly they promote trending squares of blurbs and images, but sometimes you see a note:

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@johnjohnston I think we are in agreement.

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Reply to: Spread unintelligibly thin

Replied to Spread unintelligibly thin by Jeremy Cherfas I wonder if the problem is part of the solution? As I slowly explore the IndieWeb ideas and tools I find that quite a few don’t do exactly what I want. So I slow down. Think. Tweak. Often delete a draft. For example, I am starting to understand Indigenous, I’ve Micropub posts set to be drafts. I don’t like the way my theme presents these posts. I remove the auto generated excerpt, tweak the title and perhaps the quote. This helps me think the post th

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Spread unintelligibly thin

As someone who mostly dislikes other people who willy-nilly connect everything they put online to everywhere they put things online in a many-to-many idiopathic echo chamber, I ought to do a little less of that myself. Or at least be a little more mindful about what I am doing. In some ways, this is just a continuation of the soul-searching that found an outlet in Putting my house in order: Phase 1. I achieved some of what I set out to do there, but not enough, and this latest bout of navel gazing was promp

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@johnjohnston I think we are in agreement.

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Replied to Spread unintelligibly thin by Jeremy Cherfas I wonder if the problem is part of the solution? As I slowly explore the IndieWeb ideas and tools I find that quite a few don’t do exactly what I want. So I slow down. Think. Tweak. Often delete a draft. For example, I am starting to understand Indigenous, I’ve Micropub posts set to be drafts. I don’t like the way my theme presents these posts. I remove the auto generated excerpt, tweak the title and perhaps the quote. This helps me think the post th

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Chris Aldrich

Extending a User Interface Idea for Social Reading Online

This morning I was reading an article online and I bookmarked it as “read” using the Reading.am browser extension which I use as part of my workflow of capturing all the things I’ve been reading on the internet. (You can find a feed of these posts here if you’d like to cyber-stalk most of my reading–I don’t post 100% of it publicly.) I mention it because I was specifically intrigued by a small piece of excellent user interface and social graph data that Reading.am unearths for me. I’m including a quick scre

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Some ideas about tags, categories, and metadata for online commonplace books and search

Earlier this morning I was reading The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags and the discussion of topics versus objects got me thinking about semantics on my website in general. People often ask why WordPress has both a Category and a Tag functionality, and to some extent it would seem to be just for this thing–differentiating between topics and objects–or at least it’s how I have used it and perceived others doing so as well. (Incidentally from a functionality perspective categories in the WordPress taxono

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@cn Those are they! The Spam thing was huge fun, made originally for R4.

cn

@jeremycherfas 2013–07–15 Frozen beef 2015–04–20 Grass–fed beef Also came across the SPAM episode…

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@jeremycherfas 🐮🥛

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@cn I have a biggie on milk in the works.

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@cn There were two on grass fed beef. I need to do a much better job of surfacing things. One was about freezing good beef, the other more directly about grass fed.

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@cn Milk substitution is environmentally indefensible.

jeremycherfas

@cn Yes. The rot sets in when you finish them in feedlots. Dairy cows eating grass are good too, though smaller units and less trucking can help too.

hjalm

@eli No one expects the atlatl!

cn

@jeremycherfas are there past “eat this” episodes pertinent to these issues?

cn

@jeremycherfas efficiencies of land area, water use and such? Milk substitution with say almond–based fluid has a high water cost too?

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@cn Cow based product is wonderfully efficient if it is in turn based on green grass.

jeremycherfas

@eli You tell me :shrug

cn

@jeremycherfas I’d like to give up‡ cow–based produce, since that’s amongst the least resource–efficient ways of producing food; plus beef is possibly something that I’m starting to disagree with maxillofacially (‡ reduce consumption of)

eli

@jeremycherfas is one really paleo if one isn't using an atlatl and chasing the next meal down on the savannah? 😬

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@cn Good point, well made. But we’ve outgrown those petty needs, haven’t we? Except for the palaeo eaters, who are, well, palaeolithic, right?

cn

@jeremycherfas without prehistoric ancestors’ consumption of meat, we wouldn’t have the brains to have ethical issues with food, or this discussion…

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@jeremycherfas Yes, fine now.

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@vasta Great. Thanks for the additional confirmation.

vasta

@jeremycherfas Seems to work for me!

cn

@jeremycherfas seems fine.

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@cn @vanessa Works for me, please check.

Chris Aldrich

Our Daily Bread — A short 30 day podcast history of wheat and bread in very short episodes

Drop what you’re doing and immediately go out to subscribe to Our Daily Bread: A history of wheat and bread in very short episodes! Subscribe: Android | Google Podcasts | RSS | More The illustrious and inimitable Jeremy Cherfas is producing a whole new form of beauty by talking about wheat and bread in a podcast for thirty days. It’s bundled up as part of his longer-running Eat This Podcast series, which I’ve been savoring for years. Now that you’re subscribed and your life will certainly be immeasurably b

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👓 Just do it — by hand | Jeremy Cherfas

Read Just do it -- by hand by Jeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas) So when I do syndicate out to a silo, I do it by hand. Sure it would be tedious if I wanted to do that for every little thing, but I don't. I share the things I want to share, in the way I want to share them. I’ve noticed that I typically syndicate almost everything manually despite the fact that I’ve got the ability to do it automatically. Doing it manually actually gives me a greater feeling of ownership somehow. I do miss the ability to have

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18 Jul Giving Up On Indieweb In reply to: Jeremy Cherfas Glenn chose not to jump through those hoops. That's OK. I wonder, though, will he ever discover this post? Not Giving Up On IndieWeb 2017-07-27 Accessed on: 2018-07-18 (UPDATE: It's now been a year since I first posted this. Just today I discovered a year-old blog post which mentioned this one, and an ensuing discussion. Of course I knew nothing of this because - well, I couldn't get webmentions to work! I have moved this blog to a new platform, and they have a webmentions plugin, so I'm going to link to/reply to the post in question and see if maybe, just maybe, this will work now?) Mood: very ranty! While I love the IndieWeb concept and the general ideas behind it, the current set of implementations are so complex, so mind-blowingly difficult to implement that I am making a self-care decision and deleting almost all of it from my computer and sites. There is a reason that the handful of people who actually care and talk about this stuff have careers in programming. At this point, that is what is required to get this up and running. What this means is that a decent level of implementation and adoption is still years away. Yes, I've read how the W3C is about to officially 'recommend' it, and how there is a WordPress plugin for it. Still, just spend some time with Google and read some sites. It's a god-damned ghost town out there. The only way this is going to gain any sort of widespread momentum is for it to become baked in to other services. Core, not plugins. If it takes an extra effort, or a lot of command-line typing, people just aren't going to do it, and the adoption levels will remain close to where they are now, almost zero. After the initial spurt of activity surrounding IndieWeb as a concept, there was a brief flurry of activity. Almost every solution I looked into shows this same pattern. Since 2014 a few plugins were built for the Kirby CMS. Known started up. An IndieWeb plugin was created for WordPress. So how is the adoption rate for these things? WordPress IndieWeb plugin - 3 years, 300 installs Known - no longer catering to individual bloggers - targeting education market Kirby plugins - I installed both micropub and webmentions - as far as I can tell, neither work as expected. Brid.gy - almost 4000 accounts in six years, but no idea how many are active and connected to a real blog And that's about it. That is as much traction as this concept has been able to get. A few scattered developers have worked on bits and pieces of it in their spare time and have implemented it for their own sites, but it's still all small disjointed strings of code floating around, waiting for you to lovingly hand-code into your own html. So I'm calling it. No more indieweb implementations for me. I'll still have my own blog, and it will still be closely tied to my 'silo' identities around the web, but I'm not going to waste any more time trying to get micropub or webmention code to work. Maybe someday someone will get this packaged in a more user-friendly way. Until then, I'm just going to blog and share and interact when and where I am able.

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Very happy to report that exist.io now includes browsing past calendar months.

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👓 New Communities Can Be Overwhelming | David Wolfpaw

Replied to New Communities Can Be Overwhelming by David Wolfpaw (davidwolfpaw.com) I’ve been paying a lot more attention to the IndieWeb space this year, with the intention of revamping my lifelogging site to both include more services that I still use (and remove the fitness tracking that I decided to stop), as well as become a repository for webmentions. David, Welcome! Come on in, the water’s fine… I remember lurking for over a year and a half before dipping a toe in for the first time myself. Everyone

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IndieAuth

After reading this article in @jeremycherfas I toyed on IndieAuth site and trying to add links on my microblog hosted site; but did not succeed:(

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👓 Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner | Bloomberg

Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner by Agnieszka de Sousa and Hayley Warren (Bloomberg.com) The future of food looks like lots of lobsters, Polish chardonnay and California coffee. This is a difficult story to tell, though the timelapse imagery here is relatively useful. If one had some extra money lying around, it certainly indicates which crops one could be shorting in the markets over the next few decades. I can imagine Jeremy Cherfas doing something interesting and more personalizing with this t

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Jeremy, if you haven't tried it before, take a look at Ryan Barrett's Instagram Atom Feeds tool https://instagram-atom.appspot.com/ which will give you the ability to put your Instagram account into a feed reader and allow you to have both an ad-free and chronological stream of your Instagram feed. The UI you get may be somewhat dependent on the reader (and its settings) you use to consume it, but it's better than the slightly prettier and draconian alternative. As for extracting your own photo data, I've

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Heh. Good advice. I do in fact use Ryan’s service. One of my links in that piece points to it in case anyone else is curious.

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Absolutely correct. The people are eager and willing to help, and I would not have got anywhere without them. Which is why I am careful to say that I see no deliberate effort to exclude anyone. But as you say, it isn't ready for everyone either. Nor will it be, I don't think.

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@matigo And nothing. That's it. For now.

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@jeremycherfas and ... ? :o

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A couple of times I used $searchengine to look for a solution to a programming problem, only to find my own blog post to be result #1 - and I already had forgotten about that I wrote it years ago.

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Bridging the gap

# Eli Mellen wrote a great post about how the #indieweb needs to be more accessible to non-developers. It prompted some considered response including this post from Jeremy Cherfas in which he points to a response from Peter Molnar. And then there is "An Indieweb Podcast" from David Shanske and Chris Aldridge. Eli linked to the indieweb generations page (the suggested adoption path) exclaiming that much of the current technology is rooted in generations 1 & 2 (the more technical users) but needs to be access

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That reminds me, I should take a look at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/putting-my-house-in-order-phase-2 and see what's changed.

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Oh wow -- this looks amazing. I love the idea of mixing data sources like this. One reason I love @wikidata which would make it even easier.

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Following Duncan Stephen

Duncan Stephen (Duncan Stephen) Digital strategist and designer His writing in A Brutal Redesign is similar to some of the issues I’ve come across. Curious to see where things evolve on his site. h/t Jeremy Cherfas via reading.am Syndicated copies to: Author: Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publish

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Why I cannot post bookmarks to Known automatically | Jeremy Cherfas

I've set out in as much detail as I can understand what is happening when I try to POST a Bookmark with a Description to WithKnown.And to add insult to injury, I'm adding this Description by hand, so I can include a blockquote: [I]f you try to POST anything other than the URL of the bookmark, it simply never appears. With the help of good IndieWeb people, especially zegnat and cweiske, we worked out what was happening. #indieweb #withknown

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Gearing up for Fornacalia

Panis quadratus, carbonised at Pompeii When first I came across the ancient Roman festival of Fornacalia, back in 2010, it seemed to me an ideal opportunity for newly inspired bakers at home and in bakeries to celebrate their art. Two years later, I even left a desperate little plea to that effect in a forum I frequented. It died a death, as it has most years subsequently, a notable exception being Dan Etherington’s post Fornacalia, Fornax and burnt spelt. Like my leaven, though, which refuses to die, I’m g

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From little seeds … How one country is sharing its edible history

http://media.blubrry.com/eatthispodcast/p/mange-tout.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/issa-veg.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:49 — 15.7MB)Subscribe: Android | Google Podcasts | RSS | More No apologies for returning to the Irish Seed Savers Association in County Clare. An organisation like that usually sprouts from one person’s enthusiasm and drive, and it flourishes with the commitment and passion of volunteers and staff for whom the work is much more than a job. I spoke to Anita Hayes, who st

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Happy Fornicalia

Celebrating the Ancient Roman religious festival in honor of the goddess Fornax

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👓 Marijuana goes mainstream by Jeremy Cherfas

Marijuana goes mainstream by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Legalized marijuana is going the way of all agricultural commodities in the United States, and that shouldn't be a surprise. A really interesting analysis by 538 reveals that the price of pot has dropped for grower and dope fiend alike, and with big money at stake -- $6.7 billion this past year and $20 billion the dream for 2021 -- big money is very interested. Jeremy has some great insight in looking at marijuana as a simple staple crop. It

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Text file journalling

The story so far: Yesterday, I discovered the idea of using 1Writer on my phone to create daily journal entries. Today, pursuing that, I gave up on the idea, sort of, because a folder full of short journal entries poses its own problems, like being able to preview and search the entries really easily. Instead, I went back to one of my jumping-off points. I had no intention of going as far as Daniel Lucraft's A Plain Text Personal Organizer but could quite see my way to implementing something more along the

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Lemon marmalade by Jeremy Cherfas

Lemon marmalade by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) One of my dreams, when I first arrived in Rome, was to be able, on a hot summer evening, to walk out to my own lemon tree and pick a still-warm fruit to grace my ice-cold G&T. Sixteen years and four removals later, that tree, bought from a lorry at the side of the road, is still with me and, this wi... Just as I’ve managed to score a major load of lemons and was looking around for recipes, Jeremy naturally comes up with a brilliant answer. Also reminds

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👓 A plea for some IndieWebness, and more by Jeremy Cherfas

A plea for some IndieWebness, and more by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) When I re-entered social space after a three-week break, there was a very pleasant surprise. My friend Jason had relaunched his Doubtfully Daily Matigo podcast. I binged on the first five immediately (alternating with another short podcast) and then caught up fully this morning. As so often with J... Author: Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexit

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👓 Monthly report: December 2017 by Jeremy Cherfas

Read Monthly report: December 2017 by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) The most important thing to note is that I was away from my desk literally for three weeks, on a wonderfully relaxing holiday. Of course, there were still work-like things to be done, and they got done, but mostly I wasn’t thinking or doing much “work”. Ever hopeful, I entered a podcast for th...

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👓 Everything old is new again by Jeremy Cherfas

Everything old is new again by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Botany One reviews Food: Delicious Science, a newish TV series from James Wong and Michael Mosley, originally produced on BBC2 as The Secrets of Your Food. Among the "entertaining stories" that Ian Street singles out for special praise: Watching James Wong and Michael Mosley participate in a chili eating contest to illustrate just how far humans have gone to explore what is edible and explain the biochemistry of capsaicin. Aut

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Catching up on reviewing my Christmas reading: Unbelievably dystopian

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Reflecting on the Voices in the Village 2017

A reflection on the comments on my blog(s) that have pushed my thinking this year So often at this time of year people publish lists of posts that received the most views, what interests me though is not the number of hits on my site, but the comments that have pushed my thinking. As Robert Schuetz explains, Comments are like the marshmallows in Lucky Charms, the sugary goodness that adds flavor to our day. Comments turn posts into conversations. For the last two years (2015 and 2016) I have looked bac

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In so many respects, marijuana is a mirror of food, as noted at the mothership https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/marijuana-goes-mainstream

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My 2017 Podcast Listening

As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d do a look over the Podcasts I’ve been listening to this year, vaguely sorted according to topic. As I’ve written about before, my tinnitus levels and other hearing issues have worsened of late, so much so that I can’t listen to many otherwise excellent podcasts which have poor audio quality. I know this is a niche complaint, but, seriously podcasters, recording a skype session with all its artifacting and echoing means that your fabulous interview with that exciti

elliot

@eli Ooh, Saga Thing looks interesting. Another new one for my feed — thanks!

elliot

@dgold My pleasure :) I’m far from caught up but every episode I’ve listened to so far has been excellent.

dgold

@eli Oh now! Saga Thing looks to be right up my proverbial - an area of history/mythos I'm not hugely familiar with and a ready backlog of episodes 😃 I tried 100 Objects before and it didn't take, but I shall repeat the effort. Thank you.

Jeremy Cherfas

Thanks to Daniel Goldsmith for both the shoutout and, even more so, the recommendations. But if Tanis turns out to resemble a recent podcast series about the Polybius Conspiracy in any way I will be well cross.

dgold

@elliot Wow! Thank you for that recommendation. 263 episodes in and they've gotten as far as Æthelflæd?! Added to the list, with sincere thanks.

eli

@dgold WOOOT history podcasts! If you are looking for new ones, I can highly recommend Rex Factor, and Saga Thing...also The History of the World in a Hundred Objects.

elliot

@dgold Interesting list — there are a couple on there I'm definitely going to check out. If you're after any more history podcasts, The British History Podcast was easily my favourite find this year.

Rob Fairhead

Interesting read, Jeremy. Just on the plumbing side of things I'm currently thinking how I want a more comprehensive main page for myself (currently trying out a WordPress instance), whilst having my Known posts show up on the same page. That way I won't have two completely separate streams. I don't have the plumbing skills to do the manual stuff you have, but it's interesting that those of us on the #indieweb journey are wrestling with similar principles. Obviously one size will never fit all (or we ma

Colin Walker

Thanks so much for your thoughts, Jeremy. I will go through them carefully.

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Jumping back into the Indieweb. Hopefully this will work – I’m sending some webmentions along with my first post. Hello World. (and Jeremy and Aaron)

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Bloomin' funny

The things you find when going through old stuff.

Aaron Davis

I really like your point Jeremy about satisfaction. I wonder if it comes down to why you are publishing? For me, I am interested in developing ideas. If your interest is simply pushing out information, then maybe a more ‘safe and secure’ platform is preferred. Something to think about I guess.

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👓 Resistance is fudgeable | Jeremy Cherfas

Resistance is fudgeable by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net) Editing the recent podcast on Antibiotics in agriculture was far harder than I expected it to be, mostly because I had to cut away stuff that is important, but just didn’t fit. Much of that was about how, in time honoured tradition, antibiotic manufacturers and veterinarians sowed doubts about who... I love that Jeremy goes to the effort to not only analyze the charts and graphs, but finds original copies and brings them to our attention. Too of

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How to Install the Known platform on a Dreamhost shared server

Installing Known on Dreamhost is super easy. The prerequisite is having a hosting account. To host Known on Dreamhost, a domain or subdomain for the installation must exist. If not, add one to your Dreamhost account. Make sure you know the user for the domain. Dreamhost defaults to a user the server creates.Download the Known .zip archive from withknown.com. Upload the Known files to your Dreamhost server's domain directory. There are two ways to do this: Unpack the Known .zip locally and then copy the file

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Known and micro.blog, sitting in a tree ...

As soon as micro.blog added the ability to crosspost to a micropub-equipped site, I've tried, sporadically, to get it to work with my Known site. It never would work, and proved extremely frustrating to troubleshoot. Other people would just say, "It works for me" and because the problem clearly lay somewhere between the two entities it was very hard to know where to begin looking for trouble. When Manton saw my distress and decided to install Known on DreamHost specifically to test, I was heartened. When h

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Kiai, thanks for writing this up! You should consider sharing it in our discussion forums at https://discussion.dreamhost.com. ❤️

Anonymous

Unfortunately the food community link is broken.

Jeremy Cherfas

This anguishing about comments has been going a good long while. Fun to uncover this one.

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The tools change, the job remains the same

Funny, as I continue slowly to bring old posts in, to see what I wrote about my tools, in 2007 and then again in 2013.The conclusion remains as it ever was; although the tools change, the jobs they need to do remain more or less the same. Find things and write about them.

Anonymous

So, farewell then Lucky Peach

Lucky Peach was a great magazine about food; informative, witty, intelligent and eminently readable when most of the competition was nothing of the sort. But when it died, under slightly mysterious circumstances earlier this year, I didn't think too much about the consequences. I'd never actually been in a position to buy a paper copy, alas, but I very much enjoyed reading it online, which was generally a treat of both words and pictures. 1 And so I thought, well, that's OK. It'll live forever, digitally.

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Crossed the wide Pecos ...

Playing Lyle Lovett singing Texas River Song, even though I know it's a stretch, to celebrate having eaten a giant bowl of my own dogfood.A couple of weeks ago I followed Chris Aldrich to reading.am, which is a neat little spot for just putting down a marker for something that you're reading. I wanted more. I wanted to be able to save links to the things I marked. And now, a little over two weeks later, I've done it.I have a PHP file that fetches the RSS feeds of things I've marked in reading.am, looks for

Rob Fairhead

Indieweb for end-users – some thoughts

I’ve been mulling over this post by this post by Jeremy Cherfas , my reply and then Chris Aldrich’s response asking for views on what the #indieweb could do better. My attraction to the IndieWeb has been about owning my data, avoiding silos where possible (i.e. where the friction is tolerable), and federalising content. (You can read a little about my journey on my IndieWeb user page .) I only came across the definitions of IndieWeb Generations the other day, but would label myself as a Gen2 with a little b

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Indieweb for end-users – some thoughts

I’ve been mulling over this post by this post by Jeremy Cherfas , my reply and then Chris Aldrich’s response asking for views on what the #indieweb could do better. My attraction to the IndieWeb has been about owning my data, avoiding silos where possible (i.e. where the friction is tolerable), and federalising content. (You can read a little about my journey on my IndieWeb user page .) I only came across the definitions of IndieWeb Generations the other day, but would label myself as a Gen2 with a little b

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Indieweb for end-users - some thoughts

Indieweb for end-users - some thoughts 3 min read I've been mulling over this post by this post by Jeremy Cherfas , my reply and then Chris Aldrich's response asking for views on what the #indieweb could do better.My attraction to the IndieWeb has been about owning my data, avoiding silos where possible (i.e. where the friction is tolerable), and federalising content. (You can read a little about my journey on my IndieWeb user page

Rob Fairhead

Indieweb for end-users – some thoughts

I’ve been mulling over this post by this post by Jeremy Cherfas , my reply and then Chris Aldrich’s response asking for views on what the #indieweb could do better. My attraction to the IndieWeb has been about owning my data, avoiding silos where possible (i.e. where the friction is tolerable), and federalising content. (You can read a little about my journey on my IndieWeb user page .) I only came across the definitions of IndieWeb Generations the other day, but would label myself as a Gen2 with a little b

Rob Fairhead

Indieweb for end-users – some thoughts

I’ve been mulling over this post by this post by Jeremy Cherfas , my reply and then Chris Aldrich’s response asking for views on what the #indieweb could do better. My attraction to the IndieWeb has been about owning my data, avoiding silos where possible (i.e. where the friction is tolerable), and federalising content. (You can read a little about my journey on my IndieWeb user page .) I only came across the definitions of IndieWeb Generations the other day, but would label myself as a Gen2 with a little b

Chris Aldrich

Jeremy, congrats on owning your reading! I'd recently seen your note about using reading.am, but I've been on holiday and not had a chance to get back to you. In general it seems like you've found most of the salient pieces I liked about it. For the record these include: * I like the idea of "bookmarking" everything I'm reading as I read it. Even for things I don't quite finish, I often will want to know what the thing was or how to easily find it at a later date. * It has an easy to use desktop bookmarkl

Jeremy Cherfas

Chris Aldrich is way too kind, but it is the kind of kindness I need. A couple of quick responses: I will indeed tweak the regex as you suggest. That behaviour by reading.am does rather spoil using it as a repository for links I want to go back to, but hey ho. On posting to Wayback Machine, I thought I saw a blog post from Reading that this was now done automatically for all saved posts. Getting things into my Known stream is on the horizon, but I will have to learn a lot more about how to use the web publ

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Here is what you need to do to make the form look nice: http://fotos.cweiske.de/screenshots/2017/2017-08-17%20jeremy%20form%20style.png - replace p with div - add class="buttons" to button div - replace input with button tag

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Just need to test a non webmention webmention

Jeena

A couple of interesting articles on the IndieWeb right now: Reflections on Two Years of #Indieweb - Alex Kearney - https://kongaloosh.com/e/2017/6/22/hello-world Not giving up on IndieWeb - Jeremy Cherfas - https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/not-giving-up-on-indieweb The confusion about the indieweb - Colin Walker - https://colinwalker.blog/2017/06/22/the-confusion-about-the-indieweb/ Re: Making the IndieWeb easier for Generation 2 users - John Johnston - http://johnjohnston.info/blog/re-chris-aldrich-o

jeremycherfas

@colinwalker It is depressing to We who care, but the rest of the population doesn't find it so and probably never will. So let's preach to the choir and give the choir our all, and maybe it will grow a bit in size and influence.

colinwalker

@jeremycherfas That's quite a depressing read 😓 It's sad that celebrity culture overpowers anything remotely useful.

Chris Aldrich

I'm curious what, if anything, you all think that the IndieWeb as a community could do or do better to make things easier for Generation 2 users? Additionally is there something we all (as Gen2 users) could band together to do to make it easier for others like us not to have to "suffer" as we did? Comments back to this are welcome, as is conversation in the #indieweb channel, or even brainstorming on the wiki (perhaps the generations page: https://indieweb.org/generations#Generation_2_IndieWeb)

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I think @manton's micro.blog offers a great model of the indieweb. It, like quill or webmention.io, is a microservice or set of microservices that leverages indieweb tech in a user friendly way. When the indieweb works more like the social media that folks are already familiar with (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) the less friction there is to join. So...this is all to say, in the end, I think better on boarding materials and user-friendlier documentation would go a LOOOOONG way. BUT, before one can cre

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I wonder if the generations are still applicable and/or useful? Generation 2 is so broadly defined it is difficult to say what "they" need, because as a group of users they're not very clearly articulated. What if the focused shifted to features? ...this isn't to say away from users, but to re-articulate phases of indieweb growth by ease of use?

Colin Walker

In reply to: I'm curious what, if anything, you all think that the IndieWeb as a community could do or do better to make things easier for Generation 2... As I've written before, I think mass adoption of #indieweb technologies (at least in their current guise) is only likely to happen by stealth. There needs to be a big player willing to dip their toes in the water and really drive things forward in a way that is invisible to end users. Imagine if Twitter or Facebook natively included support. There would b

john

Re: Chris Aldrich on making the IndieWeb easier for Generation 2 users?

I'm curious what, if anything, you all think that the IndieWeb as a community could do or do better to make things easier for Generation 2 users? by Chris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich) Hi Chris, I am not sure there is much that the IndieWeb as a community can do more that the amazing efforts that are going on at the moment. This reply turns out to be a bit of a ramble… I think at this stage of the development of IndieWeb there is bound to be friction for new users. I am certainly aware that some of my posts mu

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