Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
A real eye-opener, for me.
Letters from an American
One of the very best editions of one of the very best newsletters.
The swifts are back.
Just put the finishing touches on tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter, a definite bus-stop edition. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas and it will arrive in your inbox.
Too sad, but a glorious obit.
New edition of Eat This Newsletter, throwing shade on citrons in Italy and biocrusts in Arizona, not to mention Greek inflation busters, sustainability commitments and a look beyond coronation quiche. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-204-shade-lovers/ and while you're there, subscribe.
Very happy to be reminded of this post today, while having singularly failed to resurrect pelf or anything else.
"The market failure of digital image (and video) management has lasted longer and there's no end in site. This means something."
So true. Been going downhill since iView died. I'm OK with Photo Mechanic, but ...
Ghosted on Apple TV+ is a very entertaining romp.
Matt Webb refuses to normalise milk from cows, and has some fun observations about how to specify the "milk" in his flat whites and regional variations in London. I don't take any "milk" in most of the coffee I drink, so not an issue for me.
This a very useful estimate, because I never really have a clue how much mobile data I am using. ½GB a day is probably a good guide.
Brett Terpstra has written a script to convert Markdown to a Bike outline. Me, I just paid up for Keyboard Maestro in order to go the other way. If I'm writing something that requires outlining, I'd much rather start in an outliner and then go to Markdown to polish.
A real blast from the past, when it took real ingenuity to work out what was going on in DNA.
Good, thoughtful piece from Tracy Durnell about some of the choices she makes to blog. The comment about bits of personal life being interesting, while to much can be, er, too much, is encouraging
Very thoughtful piece from James G., examining his loneliness and, more to the point, how he successfully overcoming some of the patterns of behaviour developed over the past three years. Highly commendable on all fronts.
Interesting to read Ryan’s thoughts about being Not That Online and whether that affects the incredibly handy tools he makes for others. Maybe I’m overthinking my own dilemmas.
This is the exact opposite of my experience, as a certified old fart. I learned to code Fortran on an IBM 370, then we got PDPs and I embraced Basic and later a bit of assembler. Then went dormant for a while so I missed everything. Now catching up.
I wonder what it would take to adapt the WithKnown Twitter plugin to use V2 of the API? Might need to look into that before throwing in the towel completely.
It has been a very long time since my last refereed paper was published, but here we are again. What is Wrong with Biofortification makes the case that staples with enhanced levels of micronutrient are not a good way to tackle micronutrient deficiencies. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gvaP7sxZ%7EFqY4
A battle lost to protect the privacy of website visitors.
Ceteris is not paribus – The one-handed economist
Particularly liked this quote:
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” — Ronald Wright, 2004.
Is today the day I stop being able to POSSE here from @withknown? One failed yesterday, but that could have been an error.
If you are into #tinnedfishdatenight -- a thing I learned about for my newsletter -- you might want to consider mercury levels. Sean Wittenberg talked to me about Safe Catch, and you can listen on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wu79IbLGEY8qozebf0bMb
I've always used bayonet connection for the kind of lightbulb that does not screw in but is inserted and twisted a little.
One reason I love Rome: some douchebag scraped my car, actually breaking the fixtures for the parking light. Yesterday I took it to the neighbourhood bodyshop (yes, there is one) and it was fixed this morning, plus most of the paint the douchebag had left removed, for €50.
Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Absolutely wonderful, except that I may now not be able to ride my bike mindlessly at all, so full will it be with physics.
Thanks Waxy.
See, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about: "kept me listening despite zero interest in the subject," said someone about the latest episode of Eat This Podcast, What Price Chicken Wings.