In light of @kitchenbee quoting @bittman ‘You will hear, “The food system is broken”. But the truth is that it works almost perfectly for Big Food.' dont get your hopes up for the UN Food Summit.
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Finally got round to @DanSaladinoUK Food Programme about Charles Campion, and what a treat it was. So well put together, and a great picture of the man himself. He will be missed. Thanks Dan.
@simonw I'm so conflicted. I want to like that you were recognised, but not the people who recognised you.
@raymondcamden Are you actually displaying the webmentions anywhere? I looked at your site and couldn't see any, so it is hard to know how to proceed. You might get more help at https://
@OwenAdamsYT1 If you are talking about the list at https://
Bravo! One tip, especially if you have a pizza stone (and you really should have one): put a piece of parchement paper or reusable baking paper under the pizza. It keeps the stone cleaner and makes getting it in and out with the peel easier.
@lindsmiddleton Please keep feeding your website. Much nicer to read that than this.
@drhitchcocknz There's brid.gy that can do a lot of the work of POSSE for you. I use @withknown, which has plugins for that, like the one that will send this reply to Twitter. Depends partially on whether you already have a web publishing tool set up.
Really good news. I would even be willing to transfer known.blog, which I have not been able to do anything with.
Working well. Just some minor CSS to fiddle with, at least in mobile.
That picture is worth so much more than 1000 words, and yet I don't expect it to have any impact where it matters most, among the people rejecting "socialised" medicine all the way to their early graves.
@bsag How feasible do you think it would be to build a headphone only Raspberry pi DAC as a Roon endpoint?
I know. And it isn't even as if the person responsible will ever see my comment. But given what they wrote, I don't see any point in pushing it any further. People suit themselves now, and don't give their future selves much thought.
OK, so you want to move to Medium because it'll be more rewarding. I get that. But as someone who follows via RSS from your own site, I don't understand why you would not also post there. I don't care whether you POSSE or PESOS, I do consider myself dumped.
Interesting how in the first flush of enthusiasm, people build a now page, and then it becomes an a while ago now page, and then, er, something else entirely. I'm not regretting a failure to embrace the /now.
By dint of getting rid of unused styles and serving Tailwind.css myself, I upped my site's Lighthouse score from 68 to 93. Will anyone else notice? And is the remaining 7 worth pursuing?
Existential questions.
I too prefer to decide when I want to pay more to upgrade software but I have kept TextExpander 5 running along because I find it easier than Alfred for most snippets. For one thing, I don't have to summon Alfred first. Maybe I should be transferring my snippets more actively, to be ready for the fateful day.
Right, but fried polenta is another kind of thing. The unfried stuff depends on the maize from which it is made and the stuff that accompanies it. In my book, a good polenta is great with just olive oil and salt, and from there only gets better.
@fourierfiend The simplest syndication tool in many respects is Brid.gy which you can hook up to your site. There are also plugins for some CMS like WP and Drupal and the one I’m using, Known.
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.
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.
@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.
@CharlesCMann Bad enough having a Twitter thread as the canonical source for a good point, but when the original tweet has been deleted that makes it even worse. I don't want to attribute bad faith to @jasonhickel, but what else can I do?
On second thoughts, maybe the reason my Aeropress plunger has never slipped is that I brew upside down. So the water is heating the rubber while the grounds are brewing. And the rubber expands more than the plastic of the cylinder.
I'm perfectly happy that Scott Nesbitt decided to change the backend of his interesting site The Plain Text Project. But this seems like a slap to his readers: "if you've bookmarked something you've read in this space, you'll need to update the bookmark by adding articles/ to the URL." A perfect case for a very simple rewrite rule.
Interesting tip if your Aeropress is slipping, to expand the plunger's rubber while contracting the tube. Maybe I'm just not an adequate Aeropress user, but mine shows no slippage at all. And I'm almost through my third pack of filter papers.
What's so very strange about reading this post for me, is that the first photograph was taken less than 1 km from where I grew up. Not that it looked much like that back then, apart from the railway bridge.
@isellsoap I know that @chrisaldrich was involved in doing Webmention and other IndieWeb things with his local paper; see https://
@PhotoJazzy This an awful story to read, but I thank you for sharing it.
That would be a newsletter, right?
In the olden days, these sincere email replies to content strategists and the like would have been an instant success as a book. Doubly so if a reply ever arrived.
One of the few things I dislike about living at the top of a hill is being far from water. The most enjoyable aspects of my brief stay in Utrecht a couple of years ago was walking along the small and large waterways. Some of the houseboats are just so beautiful to look at. To live in, who knows?
A transcript of my conversation with @smargot_finn on taste is now up at the show notes.
All this and more I am exploring in the first episode of a mini-series, in conversation with https://
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Maybe there is something universal about what tastes good? And then there’s the equally difficult question of who decides what constitutes “good taste”. Is taste all a matter of status? 5/6
So much for taste being purely subjective. But there’s more. If taste were purely subjective, how would the evil NuFood Corp be able to engineer foods that taste so good that almost all of humanity becomes borderline addicted? 4/6
And yet, it is incredibly easy to leap from “this tastes good (to me)” to “I have good taste,“ and from there it is a hop, skip and jump to “I am a good person”. That being the case, my clear moral duty is to improve your taste and so to improve you. 3/6
What happens on my tongue, in my nose and especially in my brain is mine alone, and you can have little useful to say about it. You could of course point out that I have no idea how bad cilantro tastes to you, but that’s not helpful. 2/6
Amen to that, with knobs on.
Two minutes is probably a bit much for an intro. But I do think it is useful to introduce the person, if there is a guest, and at least give a hint of what you will be talking about. At least, that's what I do.
You forgot to say how bad it really was.
@StPaulTim Lots of ways to do that, and we are friendly and welcoming. Here are some suggestions https://
Funny to feel a close affinity with what is happening to a friend half a world away, and interesting that Jason too needs his parks and open spaces. The biggest park here is the remnants of an old established family villa, and so is surrounded by high walls. That is how they manage to close it off. Another big park on the other side of town is much more open, and the rumours are that the city cops are just hanging out around the perimeter, trying to keep people out.
I very much share and understand Amani Mena's frustrations, and often feel the same way myself. That's the problem with plurality, and building blocks, and many things, loosely joined. Too much choice. That's why when I started I went for WithKnown out of the box. Today I might recommend micro.blog. Once you're up and running, and have everything on your domain, you can learn and change systems as you do so. The key is to have everything on your domain. #IndieWeb
That's interesting, Chris. I've just checked, and Huffduffer is picking up only my domain, and none of the other links present as rel="me" on my Home page. I wander what the difference is. Might need to ask @adactio.
There's much to applaud in Jason's write-up of a university student's efforts to show people in Japan where positive responses to the coronavirus are. And one thing to abhor, and that's the description of "a foreign virus running rampant". The virus may have had an origin elsewhere, but there is no sense in which a pathogen can be considered foreign. This sort of wording legitimises xenophobia.
Nice idea, but anecdotally, the few people on Twitter whom I’ve asked have said they don’t have a blog of their own.
Wait a minute. Are the campaign to abolish recipe headnotes and the campaign to insist on listening to podcasts at 1x somehow related? I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their time. Listen at any speed you like; but listen. @kathrynw5 @nwquah
"My Brexit stash of tins of beans and toilet paper has had a rebrand. It’s now the corona virus emergency stash."
Very clever.