Sandwiches for a Sunday expedition.
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Withnail and I has lost none of its charm over the past 35 years.
I've looked longingly at Pollen too, without doing any more than look. Because -- call me old-fashioned -- first I need to finish writing the text.
Zucchini sott’olio continued
Zucchini sott’olio continued.
When I started on Thursday I thought I might need to get extra jars. I had no clue how much they would shrink. And I have called time 24 hours early. A little rest now before bottling.
pesosPicked a good weekend for it, I hope
Picked a good weekend for it, I hope. Zucchini sott’olio combining @domenicacooks and @carla_tomasi recipes.
They are already pretty tasty, even at this early stage.
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Slightly worrying; the new activity monitor (Xiaomi Mi-band 5) records 2846 steps to the 3000 of the old activity monitor (Garmin Vivofit). On the other hand, I have no good reason to trust the accuracy of the Garmin.
Just listened to fabulous @Transom_org show with @MairBosworth and Fiona Benson about their amazing series In The Company of Insects. Having heard Magicicada, I now I need to listen to them all. So do you, @nicolakidsbooks
Too hot for this baking malarkey, but needs must
Too hot for this baking malarkey, but needs must.
I’ve been playing around with grano arso, the burnt or smoked wheat that was the prerogative of the gleaner. Now you can just buy a bag. It makes a satisfying, velvety chocolate loaf with a definite smoky perfume. This one is 20% grano arso and 20% wholemeal at 70% hydration.
Probably a good idea to disconnect the Photos feed while I iron out a lot of wrinkles.
One step closer to PESOS from Instagram
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I had been barking up the wrong tree, trying to address `photo/edit` in order to create a photo post in WithKnown. Going through my old notes, I figured out how to do it through `micropub/endpoint` instead, which makes a whole lot more sense. Probably I should have started there.
Anyway, I know have the bare bones of being able to post automatically to WithKnown from the RSS feed of my Instagram account. Now I "just" need to build out all the rest; read the RSS feed, extract the relevant bits of data, construct the API request and bung it off.
Which will probably take forever, but hey.
One of the most satisfying things about coming home after a holiday is giving all the microbiology a bit of love so it can return the favour
Starters refreshed and one used to produce a simple white bread with 5% each whole wheat and whole rye. I’ll use the other one in a day or two, and see to the yoghurt tomorrow.
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Cactus flower
New cactus with pre-existing condition 🌱
With a little time to pursue this idea, I first upgraded to WithKnown 1.2.2 and then experimented with various API calls. I was able to create a Photo post, which included the description. But no image. At a loss, now, because the image from Bibliogram is definitely available and my RSS reader can see it. So I wonder why WithKnown cannot. Or maybe it can, but then fails to insert the image into the post. Also, apologies for spamming the micro.blog timeline.
PESOS from Instagram?
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At last night's online HWC we talked a bit about getting pictures in and out of Instagram, now that they have become so much stricter about the API. Getting images into Instagram except through approved apps seems to be getting harder and harder, and is probably impossible by now. Getting images out of Instagram is also not obviously easy. But ...
A new (to me) thing, called Bibliogram, can, under the right conditions, create an RSS or Atom feed from one's profile. I poked around, and the feed contains a link to the image, caption and date and time. The link to the image works. So maybe ...
I could send the feed to IFTTT or Zapier or similar, and have that create a post via Micropub to my instance of WithKnown. Or even, if I ever get it working, to my main site, which uses Grav.
But I can't even try for a couple of days.
Yes: Belated RSVP
@iamhirusi Sure. Micropub is the thing I would really like to get working for my own site. Finding time is so hard for me right now.
I just published Eat This Newsletter 127: Ingenious solutions.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-127-ingenious-solutions/ and, if you like, consider subscribing.
Did MySpace Kill the Potential for Customization on Social Media?
Sure, the defaults are elegant, but they are constant reminders that you’re ultimately building castles in someone else’s sandbox, which is sad and unfortunate when you’re trying to build the coolest castle you can.
This is about far more than merely being able to customize the look of your site, although that is clearly important too.
Just Too Efficient
I wish there were a way to quantify effectiveness rather than efficiency. It is surely effectiveness that matters.
@CharlesCMann Bad enough having a Twitter thread as the canonical source for a good point, but when the original tweet has been deleted that makes it even worse. I don't want to attribute bad faith to @jasonhickel, but what else can I do?
Krugman revisits pellagra to illuminate the US response to Covid-19
the United States is exceptional, in a very bad way.
It's not the only country that's exceptional, but it is exceptionally bad.
Very happy with the service from @widefitshoes A pair of shoes were not up to scratch -- not their fault at all -- and they agreed to send out a replacement with no argument. That is how it should be. If you need wider fittings, I highly recommend, and their foot-measuring chart makes it easy.
On second thoughts, maybe the reason my Aeropress plunger has never slipped is that I brew upside down. So the water is heating the rubber while the grounds are brewing. And the rubber expands more than the plastic of the cylinder.
I'm perfectly happy that Scott Nesbitt decided to change the backend of his interesting site The Plain Text Project. But this seems like a slap to his readers: "if you've bookmarked something you've read in this space, you'll need to update the bookmark by adding articles/ to the URL." A perfect case for a very simple rewrite rule.
Interesting tip if your Aeropress is slipping, to expand the plunger's rubber while contracting the tube. Maybe I'm just not an adequate Aeropress user, but mine shows no slippage at all. And I'm almost through my third pack of filter papers.