What a terrific essay from George Orwell, which goes well beyond this choice jumping-off point:
"[T]he toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets."
I don't doubt that medical software is bad and that doctors have good cause to complain. But in a fight to the death, I suspect software for human resources or for teachers might be even worse.
It's fun to see someone have their world view shot to hell. There are two things going on here. One is that time is a good substitute for energy when it comes to developing gluten. The other is that time develops flavour, even from a teeny amount of leaven.
I assume you already know about Craig Mod and his very interesting, and very well-documented, long walks through Japan.
@theRSAorg I am so disappointed that beyond lip service in the intro there was absolutely no further mention of trade in global food commodities. Even a brief acknowledgement of Brewster Kneen's pioneering efforts to shine a light on Cargill would have added immeasurably.
@GeoffTansey Thanks for the link to the UNCTAD report on cashews. I've not yet read it, but I wonder whether it details the World Bank's role in destroying Mozambique's cashew processing industry?
I did an episode about this a while back https://www.eatthispodcast.com/cashews/
A really great piece that I will bookmark as a good place to send people who ask the question Why Blog?
Because, as Marc Weidenbaum answers, Blogs Are Great.
When programmers take to baking: Amylase is a POKE instruction for the yeast computer.
A minor chuckle in a very good reflection on pandemic baking. https://interconnected.org/home/2021/03/30/baking
I'm happy to cop to this. My motivation is certainly not jealousy. I'm not in the business of handing out rules for how other people should behave. It is more to do with the adulation others bestow not on the rules but on the person dispensing them. And it isn't the rules, per se, it is the rest of the stuff.
@KitchenBee Obligatory https://xkcd.com/552/
In light of @kitchenbee quoting @bittman ‘You will hear, “The food system is broken”. But the truth is that it works almost perfectly for Big Food.' dont get your hopes up for the UN Food Summit.
https://genevasolutions.news/climate/human-rights-overshadowed-by-big-business-in-un-food-summit-say...
Finally got round to @DanSaladinoUK Food Programme about Charles Campion, and what a treat it was. So well put together, and a great picture of the man himself. He will be missed. Thanks Dan.
@simonw I'm so conflicted. I want to like that you were recognised, but not the people who recognised you.
@raymondcamden Are you actually displaying the webmentions anywhere? I looked at your site and couldn't see any, so it is hard to know how to proceed. You might get more help at https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2021-02-13#bottom
@OwenAdamsYT1 If you are talking about the list at https://indieweb.org/site-deaths, it does specifically refer to "content hosting sites" not the individual sites I think you are lamenting. No-one could keep track of all of those, although there is archive.org in a pinch.
Bravo! One tip, especially if you have a pizza stone (and you really should have one): put a piece of parchement paper or reusable baking paper under the pizza. It keeps the stone cleaner and makes getting it in and out with the peel easier.
@lindsmiddleton Please keep feeding your website. Much nicer to read that than this.
@drhitchcocknz There's brid.gy that can do a lot of the work of POSSE for you. I use @withknown, which has plugins for that, like the one that will send this reply to Twitter. Depends partially on whether you already have a web publishing tool set up.
Really good news. I would even be willing to transfer known.blog, which I have not been able to do anything with.
Working well. Just some minor CSS to fiddle with, at least in mobile.
That picture is worth so much more than 1000 words, and yet I don't expect it to have any impact where it matters most, among the people rejecting "socialised" medicine all the way to their early graves.
@bsag How feasible do you think it would be to build a headphone only Raspberry pi DAC as a Roon endpoint?
I know. And it isn't even as if the person responsible will ever see my comment. But given what they wrote, I don't see any point in pushing it any further. People suit themselves now, and don't give their future selves much thought.
OK, so you want to move to Medium because it'll be more rewarding. I get that. But as someone who follows via RSS from your own site, I don't understand why you would not also post there. I don't care whether you POSSE or PESOS, I do consider myself dumped.
Interesting how in the first flush of enthusiasm, people build a now page, and then it becomes an a while ago now page, and then, er, something else entirely. I'm not regretting a failure to embrace the /now.
By dint of getting rid of unused styles and serving Tailwind.css myself, I upped my site's Lighthouse score from 68 to 93. Will anyone else notice? And is the remaining 7 worth pursuing?
Existential questions.
I too prefer to decide when I want to pay more to upgrade software but I have kept TextExpander 5 running along because I find it easier than Alfred for most snippets. For one thing, I don't have to summon Alfred first. Maybe I should be transferring my snippets more actively, to be ready for the fateful day.
Right, but fried polenta is another kind of thing. The unfried stuff depends on the maize from which it is made and the stuff that accompanies it. In my book, a good polenta is great with just olive oil and salt, and from there only gets better.
@fourierfiend The simplest syndication tool in many respects is Brid.gy which you can hook up to your site. There are also plugins for some CMS like WP and Drupal and the one I’m using, Known.
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.
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.
@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.
@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?
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.
What's so very strange about reading this post for me, is that the first photograph was taken less than 1 km from where I grew up. Not that it looked much like that back then, apart from the railway bridge.
@isellsoap I know that @chrisaldrich was involved in doing Webmention and other IndieWeb things with his local paper; see https://boffosocko.com/2018/05/29/indieweb-ifying-coloradoboulevard-net/
@PhotoJazzy This an awful story to read, but I thank you for sharing it.
That would be a newsletter, right?
In the olden days, these sincere email replies to content strategists and the like would have been an instant success as a book. Doubly so if a reply ever arrived.
One of the few things I dislike about living at the top of a hill is being far from water. The most enjoyable aspects of my brief stay in Utrecht a couple of years ago was walking along the small and large waterways. Some of the houseboats are just so beautiful to look at. To live in, who knows?
A transcript of my conversation with @smargot_finn on taste is now up at the show notes.
All this and more I am exploring in the first episode of a mini-series, in conversation with https://twitter.com/smargot_finn 6/6
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/margot-finn/
Maybe there is something universal about what tastes good? And then there’s the equally difficult question of who decides what constitutes “good taste”. Is taste all a matter of status? 5/6
So much for taste being purely subjective. But there’s more. If taste were purely subjective, how would the evil NuFood Corp be able to engineer foods that taste so good that almost all of humanity becomes borderline addicted? 4/6
And yet, it is incredibly easy to leap from “this tastes good (to me)” to “I have good taste,“ and from there it is a hop, skip and jump to “I am a good person”. That being the case, my clear moral duty is to improve your taste and so to improve you. 3/6
What happens on my tongue, in my nose and especially in my brain is mine alone, and you can have little useful to say about it. You could of course point out that I have no idea how bad cilantro tastes to you, but that’s not helpful. 2/6
Amen to that, with knobs on.