"/>A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
I’m traveling myself, and you will probably be gone before I get back on Monday. We could have had a mini-HWC. Enjoy yourself.
My OCD is giving me grief about the different line weights in ↗ and ↘ in the latest post on my website.
I agree that part of the art of hyperlinking is to give people an idea of why you think this thing worth linking to. That's probably easier in 500 characters than 300, but it is easier still when you're not thinking about length, hence the value of a site you control.
Sensitized to broken links, and wondering what happens when a Mastodon post cannot be found, as the original to which you were replying. My understanding is that you cannot Archive toots.
I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting distance data. The data are there with distance in a cycling workout recorded as km between records, which are 1 or 2 seconds apart. The numbers are there, obscured by being of the order of 0.007 km. Solved at https://
Very odd. Simone got an error each time he replied via webmention to my link to his manifesto, and yet I see each of the replies and each of the emails he sent me to warn me of the error. A clear sign that I should upgrade WithKnown, and soon.
Thanks to Sara Jakša for pointing me to some other blog carnivals that are still going strong. I have also just posted my own submission to her carnival, and hope that a webmention will get through to alert her. Here's hoping the new carnival catches on.
Too sad, but a glorious obit.
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 ...
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.
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.
Never Have I
1) Had a MySpace account
2) Had an AOL email address
So, that's twice as many as Tim Prebble, where I found the original. But is that twice as good or twice as bad?
@friedrichlongin Another fascinating and informative thread that will presumably be lost if Twitter does eventually implode completely. Where is the backup? Why go to all this trouble only to be beholden to an autocrat's whim?
So, my online friend Jason has brought a new puppy into his life, and she does look very good. I feel the pull too.
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
If Ben Werdmuller is wondering about the look of his front page, maybe that means that @WithKnown will get a template system that mere mortals can understand ... but probaby not.
Whatever was wrong, it is right again. Thank you, mysterious gods of the internet.
My only experience with far infra-red heating is the lovely little Klarstein panel under my desk, which makes winter just about bearable. When (if?) the time comes to extend, I'm calling in Peter Molnar as consultant.
@FindThatPod "Win Apple Reviews For Your Podcast From Other Podcasters. Enter a free daily lottery-style drawing for your chance to win integrity-based listens and reviews for your podcast."
Hmmn. I wonder what's in it for them?
@help If I were to move to a paid plan, is there a way to import posts from the RSS file exported from Known?
Not entirely surprised to discover that Charles Darwin employed a slip-based system of note-taking, explained so clearly by Richard Carter. This will probably be of interest to @chrisaldrich and others.
@MairBosworth Terrific listen that adds so much history, humanity and thoughtfulness to the value of human breastmilk.
This will never work. Or will it? I can get a discount on Bike by replying to. Toot with a photo of my hometown, but I can’t attach a photo to this reply. Maybe Jesse with treat me kindly.
@seyloubakery Has it really been almost five years since I visited? Time flies when you're having fun. I listened again to Jonathan and it is no great surprise that Seylou has gone from strength to strength. https://
“Stop Using WordPress to Microblog!” Kinda funny to read this, 15 years on, just when people are thinking seriously about using their WordPress sites to microblog.
@annia It's a nice point, that Anthropocene blames all people rather than the rich few, but alas Oligocene is already spoken for.
@catlilycooks One reason why I always have a pack of Sugru in the fridge. https://
@marcelweiss Doesn't seem that extreme to me, perhaps because I have been doing it for quite a few years. But I am no techie, and many modern CMS enable quite a lot of the interaction that IndieWeb promotes.
@marcelweiss "the indieweb crowd has historically put too much emphasis on this extreme case". What is the extreme case you are referring to, please?
@allysseriordan Only three days, which is a bit of a pity. Taking the time to travel by train makes it more of an adventure and let’s me see other places along the way.
@allysseriordan Me too! Three hours into a two-day trip from Rome to Budapest, with an evening in Venice.
@ChrisAldrich Hardly surprising. The topic may have a long history, but it is very of the moment too.
Two explainers on tomato colour at
https://
http://
I cannot recall anything but red tomatoes from my youth. Yellow was dangerously exotic maybe 30 years ago. All that diversity, hiding out of plain sight!
@person72443 @omgitswinx Or, you know, come on over and explore https://
I too replaced an 11-year-old MacBoook Air with a new MBA M2, and I agree, it is a thing of beauty. So I am in need of a case. I doubt that the PKG is available in Europe (a shame) but the side-zipper is now something I need to keep an eye on.
Grateful to @leckerpodcast and @dearlucy for the opportunity to eavesdrop on the ever-so-interesting chat between @angela_hui and @rebeccamjohnson about their books and their lives. https://
Interesting comment. I hadn’t considered dairy allergy, which would have taken me even deeper into the thickets. I take it human milk was not an option.
Fascinating article, although it omitted one of the finest juggling acts I've ever seen. The Gandinis, at the Edinburgh Fringe long ago, lying on the floor and rolling water bottles from hand to hand. Slow juggling, very meditative and entrancing.
ICYMI, you didn't miss it, because the newsletter is yours to read at https://
But you might miss it, next time, if you don't sign up now.
Huge congratulations to @WonderbagO on their nomination for the @FoodPlanetPrize. Proud to have interviewed Sarah Collins way back when. https://
@ThatPaddedChar You got it in one. Standards about things like microformats are exactly what allow a plurality of implementations to flourish.
Thanks for the tip. My MIDI keyboard thingie already does a bunch of stuff that I have barely explored, so for now another soft synth would be overkill. One to keep in mind though.
Meanwhile
Lady Eva seems to have given up on Odessa. Sara left Odessa, now anchored at Bandirma, TR, cargo unknown (by me). Jasmin Queen and Noran loitering at anchor south of Istanbul, maybe still en route to Odessa or Chornomorsk.
New in Odessa: Ali S, Ganosaya, Zhe Hai
You go away for a few days and ... nothing much changes.
Razoni could be anywhere, not reporting position. Navi Star got to Foynes an hour or so ago. Polarnet still anchored off Pendik, TR. Rojen left Italy, currently anchored off Cephalonia. Riva Wind still at Iskenderun.
Razoni, Polarnet, Rojen no change. Navi Star off the southern corner of Portugal. Riva Wind moored near Iskenderun.
No change in Odessa; six cargo ships in port (and one expected later today)