Nice to see someone else trying to revive blog carnivals in an IndieWeb context. Sara Jakša's first taster appeals on two levels; it is a blog carnival and it is about food. Count me in.

I just received an email that included this message in the signature:

“Sent from my iPhone, forgive predictive autocorrection errors😀”

So, what, you're just giving up any semblance of care?

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.

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.

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.

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.