@MGraybosch Fine sentiments, and for a one-page site with a single message, not sharing metadata is an OK choice. But a little markup with microformats on a site helps others to find and enjoy the #IndieWeb in their own way.
@EIT One newsletter reader suggested it was because cooking in the US is much more aspirational than in the UK. So UK cooks want to get on with it, I think, while US cooks want to think they could get on with it.
Shells - The Dan MacKinlay family of variably-well-considered enterprises
I did switch to fish, once upon a time. But as I barely understood bash, that was probably a mistake. Anyway, I just want to endorse Dan's idea:
create shells cash, trash, theclash, and bangersandmash.
That is all.
2020-02-10
My favourite sign in the whole city. It signifies the imminent consumption of a truly fine sandwich.
Maybe: I'd like to find some time, but it just might not be possible.
My DropBox bill is going up, and while I get value from it, I wonder whether there might be alternatives. I don't think I want to be responsible for hosting something like NextCloud, but I'm willing to be persuaded. Could anyone who has done so offer an honest appraisal. Thanks.
I hope you enjoyed it. Just to let you know, I've just finished brewing another episode on coffee, to be published noon GMT tomorrow.
Rye (or spelt) ???
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Thanks to an unfollowable stream on Twitter, I came upon the website of Joshua Nudell, an historian with an interest in ancient Greek breads. A post of his, translating from Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae, refers in passing to "the loaf from rye (or spelt)". That's strange. So I left a comment on the post, as follows:
I don't know Ancient Greek, but I do know some ancient and modern cereals, so I am hoping you can elaborate on this. Does the list mean two different loaves, one of rye and one of spelt? Or does it mean that rye is sometimes known as spelt, which would be a very interesting reading indeed.
Thanks.
This could be interesting.
.@jpnudell (Apparently long threads can get lost so I was asked to break them up, hence the choppiness)
A better solution might be to also write on your own website, or even at Humanties Commons. Somewhere we can avoid the choppiness and understand you better.
You're right! Apologies for that. Apparently those icons need JS.
Now to work out why your reply didn't show up on my site.
How did I find the link? https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2020/just-discovered-i-have-a-digital-note
I read both of the pieces Chris Aldrich linked to, and my main response was to feel underwhelmed. Maybe that's because I don't have the baggage of caring one whit about George Washington's teeth. And of the other discussion, on "open" I am too ignorant to form an opinion.
Yay, and welcome to WithKnown. Glad to see you got it working. One comment, I think that the twitter logo might be missing from the syndicated link for this post.
Just discovered I have a digital note called today that has entries that go back to 2015-10-10. How did that happen?
So I added "Process this note to the top of it".
Thanks to Kicks Condor I too have discovered Legible News, which is a great way to scan the previous day's events. But seriously, why did it need someone else to build the RSS feed? I imagine that creating the daily Legible News is fully automated anyway. How hard would it have been to add the microformats to make it an h-feed?
This morning Twitter Kissed Culture Hard on the Mouth | CultureBy – Grant McCracken
This feels to me like two separate posts, the second building on the first. And while the first fascinated me, as an outsider, the second, although undoubtedly important, was of much less interest. But if you are into culture, give it a try.
Tim Harford — Article — Ten years of social media have left us all worse off
Last Christmas I vowed to spend less time on my smartphone. It worked — until a couple of months ago, when I started using Twitter much more. Why? I had something to sell. That seems wretchedly appropriate.
Yup, that seems right. Even when no money actually changes hands.
Since getting a new VPN, Spotify thinks I am in Sweden, and it is remarkable how much more tolerable the ads are. Not just because I don't understand them, because they are so much less frenetic.
Why can’t food scientists and nutritionists be friends?
For one thing, it's a lot easier to call yourself a "nutritionist". Then again, where do food scientists work except in industry, or training more food scientists?
I wrote about reviving my sourdough after an extended absence.
https://www.fornacalia.com/2020/sourdough-revival/
@TavolaMed At last. Thanks for saying it loud and clear: farro is spelt and einkorn and emmer, and the point is that they are traditionally grown as a mixture, all three in the same fields. So yes, farro is all three, but on their own none of them is farro.
I'd certainly pay for an app that used RSS (or similar) to aggregate photographers' streams. Heck, I'd even exert pressure on my own favourite photographer to create a dedicated photo stream. I've kickstartered less promising pitches. h/t @chrisaldrich
Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous 'dinosaur trees'
Very good to know.
Weeknotes 52 - 4 minutes a day — Nat Buckley
But seriously: why does it seem so weird to pay for a podcast, when I pay for music, films, TV etc?
And answer came there none.
I managed to restore my Apple Time Capsule to proper working order, I think, but how sensible is it, really, to have the reset button and the status lights on opposite sides of the device?
Adactio: Journal—Words I wrote in 2019
I’m pretty sure that I will also continue to refer to them as blog posts, not blogs. I may be the last holdout of this nomenclature in 2020. I never planned to die on this hill, but here we are.
No, @adactio, you are not alone.