Current status: extremely contented.
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New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-133-entirely-whole/ with thanks to @bittman @PhilMagowa_n @vidya83 @IsaRossellini and many others.
Town Hall Clock: read it and weep
“Are you still there? Mum?”
I kept my voice steady. I didn’t show that I was crying
“Moschatel. Adoxa moschcatellina, is the Latin name but I think I taught you town hall clock.”
Although I love having a huge park almost on the doorstep, sometimes I need a change of scene
Although I love having a huge park almost on the doorstep, sometimes I need a change of scene.
This morning’s walk, for @tavolamediterranea
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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.
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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.
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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.