All of Rome seems to have agreed that on a day like today there’s only one place to be: at the beach.
pesosCurrently reading: Our Daily Bread by Predrag Matvejević, ISBN: 9781912545094
#non-fiction
#food
#history
#mythology
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.
Yes: First time joining Nottingham, but the time is right and it will be fun to meet new people.
Started to install tailwindcss rather than rely on the full stylesheet via CDN, and all I can say is, "so far, so good". Forced by actual work to take it slowly, which is probably a good thing.
How quick and dirty Covid tests could end the weariness | Tim Harford
Far too sensible for anyone in position to make it happen, to make it happen.
Protests and Power (Idle Words)
Seems fair to me.
Delighted to learn that Subway bread in Ireland is cake, in the same way that Jaffa Cakes are cake, at least as far as VAT is concerned.
Inspired by last week’s class from the @coloradograinchain I have been working my way to this moment
Inspired by last week’s class from the @coloradograinchain I have been working my way to this moment. Of course I don’t have nearly enough loaf tins. 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and caraway soaker.
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Back in the saddle with a rye starter on the left for personal use, fed last night, and a white starter for friends fed just a minute ago
Back in the saddle with a rye starter on the left for personal use, fed last night, and a white starter for friends fed just a minute ago
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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.
On the efficiency of my scythe | Small Farm Future
Another great post from Chris Smaje, and how about those comments?
The reason that you see farmers nowadays with combines and not with scythes is because energy and capital are cheap, labour is dear, and most people don’t work the land. Like it or not, I think all this is going to change in the future.
I had a scythe once. I loved that thing, and the sheer joy of becoming skilled in using it and keeping it sharp.
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.
Pleased, in a nerdy way, that tomorrow's podcast episode, in which I chat with a chef and teacher in Aoteora, will go out on a day when we all will have almost the same times for sunrise and sunset.
A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorasan flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf
A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorramshahr flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf.
So, here goes. I fed my 75% wholewheat starter, thinking this would be whole too. It isn’t, but that’s ok. Kneads up oK, with a nice pale yellow cast. Seems a bit weak though, even though the packet said 14% protein. Obviously not that great for gluten. We shall see.
Troubleshooting blues
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It can be so hard to debug IndieWeb problems when they arise in Known. For now, this should be a , because Chris Aldrich reported a problem. But even if this works, I may need to go outside this installation to test properly. Or, perhaps, try webmention.rocks.
Test reply because @chrisaldrich was getting an error. Might be OK with reply but not webmention, so will test that next.
New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-134-dated/ with input from @IKershner, @lindsmiddleton, @National_Ag_Lib, @jennywrenwatts, @gherkinstomato and others.
One of the stranger aspects of RSS feeds is when a long dormant site springs back into life. Usually, I'm glad. This time, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Freakonomicsbook.com is now in the hands of someone else.
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable
Wow! Great read from Lisa Charlotte Rost on colours in visualisations. I have a lot of work to do ...
@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.
PhD student reporting what it's like to use a Zettelkasten for the first time with my classes — Zettelkasten Forum
What this really needs, for me, is a largish piece of paper tucked into the physical book, which I have done, in the past. The insight is to procss those notes later in the day.
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
Maybe there is still time for a breakthrough.
pesosTIL that only 5% of podcasts have been updated in the past 90 days ... and mine was one of them
https://podcastindex.org/
Top podcasting tip: if you don’t want the sound of the room to colour tracks, don’t be in a room.
Top podcasting tip: if you don’t want the sound of the room to colour tracks, don’t be in a room.
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