Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book
logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.
Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I'd be out of a job.
h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And "little lexical tchotchkes from the past" -- even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes -- is too good to pass up.
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
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The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
3. Make your own coffee. It's cheaper, it's better and it's therapeutic.
4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it's not cheaper.
Depends how you measure cost, obviously
h/t Matthew Lang
What counts? | The Enlightened Economist
Very interesting ideas on how classification systems affect the way we think, rather than vice versa.
"People can’t see what they take for granted until there is an alternative version not taking the same things for granted."
"After the perfect picture, what?"
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Cheri's Blog - One Weird Tip for Losing Belly Fat
Losing excess weight might be good for your health, but a side-effect is that it reveals all the insecurity and nastiness around you in the same way a blacklight reveals fluid stains at a crime scene.
Maybe because I am not a woman, I don't see this as much, but I do believe it is absolutely true.
xkcd: Invisible Formatting
Ah, you try and tell the kids about reveal codes.
Manton Reece - Audio in email is not a podcast
So correct. I fear we may lose the meaning of podcast, just as we lost the meaning of blog post.
The Attorney Nominated to Replace Kavanaugh Backtracked on Her Defense of Dwarf Tossing
Great headlines of our times.
How Big Beer’s Fight Over Corn Syrup Explains American Brewing Today
Interesting piece from Tom Philpott at Mother Jones, pointing out that ALL the big brewers use additional sources of food for their yeasts. Some use corn, some use rice. A pox on all of them.
The research agenda we really need
Colin Tudge at the Campaign for Real Farming points up just a few of the ways in which the current approach to research into food and food production lets us all down.
Blogging In 2018: A Trend On The Wane?
As usual, the answer to a simple question in a headline is "No!"
"Adactio: Journal—Food and music"
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Piqd -- podcast discovery
This is a really interesting development, not unlike that thing I tried to do, single handed, a while back. My playlist is way too full right now, but I might try it just to see what's going on.
"Going Paper-Free for $220 / Steve Losh"
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