I do fear that "episode" is going the way of "blog post," a battle long since lost.

When it comes to mushrooms, always best to be absolutely sure they are edible rather than fairly sure they aren't. But you did miss a treat.

Just confirmed that my little script for posting podcasts I've listened to from Overcast to WithKnown fails when there is more than one episode of the same show in the queue. Pinning that down is going to be ... tricky.

It will be interesting to see how tonz develops this idea of an automated personal assistant. I know other people use Shortcuts in all sorts of clever ways to do similar things. I still prefer paper and pencil and a sort of bullet journal.

Currently reading: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Half a world away, two outages fried my wifi extender. You have my sympathy.

I realise the risk I run saying this, but I do believe that the amount of spiced ham this site has received has dropped off over the past six months.

OK, from Omnibear, testing a link to webmention.rocks #4

This is a test reply from Omnibear, to try and isolate why webmentions appear not to be being sent by WithKnown.

What's interesting about this webmention is that on my site it comes from unknown and content is empty.

I also need to test webmentions, I suppose.

Here we go again, with New York City set to ban foie gras. https://newfoodeconomy.org/new-york-city-foie-gras-ban-gavage/

Nothing has changed that I can see, since I spoke to Michaela DeSoucey a few years ago. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/foie-gras/

If you want to understand webmentions in WordPress, might this be a good starting point for you? https://boffosocko.com/2017/12/15/threaded-replies-with-webmentions-in-wordpress/

Maybe it's just me, @kewgardens, but I would have expected an article about interesting lettuces with lots of photos to at least tell me the names of the varieties pictured. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/lettuce-season-kew-kitchen-garden

Henrik Carlsson took the trouble to record a microcast in reply to my Eating Alone episode and raised a completely new reason for wanting to eat alone: because cooking for and eating with picky children can be a bit of a trial. Good luck with future meals.

Just published the latest Eat This Newsletter at https://www.eatthispodcast.com/eat-this-newsletter-104/ and need to test this new Twitter plugin too.

So here goes.

Just upgraded my WithKnown site to the latest master. Slightly hair raising, but excellent help from @mapkyca got me over the hurdles. Only downside, currently, seems to be the plugin that syndicates to Twitter.

I’m being hit by a wave of spam to sign-up forms, rather than comments, and I cannot fathom what’s in it for the spammers. No clue.

I like the idea of a "tryout" tag for new websites that seem interesting enough to subscribe to, so I am promptly starting to do just that.

It worked! Well done. Are you also in the IndieWeb IRC/Slack?

Thanks for the link; will read. @NPRDanCharles had a good piece about the paper too.

The farmers who benefit from Fair Trade don't pass the benefits on to their workers. New paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0311-5 @LB_Naylor first alerted me to this in my episode on Fair Trade https://www.eatthispodcast.com/pushing-good-coffee/

Frustrated attempt to create my first EC2 instance AND connect to it. Launching it with defaults went fine, but connecting kept timing out, and after going through all the troubleshooting it is still timing out. Stopped, for now.

This is very cool, and the login worked perfectly. Now, is there a separate feed for me if I am logged in?

Such a well deserved award. Can't remember when I last enjoyed actually reading a cookbook this much. Well, I can, if I put my mind to it. It was Five Quarters from @racheleats

The very few occasions on which someone’s interesting reply leads me to an interesting original are far outnumbered by banal replies that clutter my timeline. Grumpy? Sure. But I wish I could control that.

So sorry that all the great content in Heated "by Medium and Mark Bittman" is available only to people willing to pay Medium's price. I'd much rather pay money.

Seems to me that if you haven't grabbed clients on the home page, they're probably not going to go to an About page. So maybe that should be more personal?

Seems to me that your home page is great as a professional About page. Just add some #indieweb markup like an h-card. You have a contact form, which is important, what more do you need?

Really Tonz, you shouldn't be meddling in this stuff. I'm just going to leave this here: https://agro.biodiver.se/2009/05/nix-that-fruit-it-really-is-a-vegetable/

Slowly developing an interest in bonsai, and came across a name that might be https://micro.blog/cn in a post comment. Just wondering, anyone else here interested?

I do find myself wondering whether well-designed HTML newsletters -- as opposed to emails -- are more effective than not-so-well-designed newsletters at getting people to read what they contain.

Just seen a beautiful little Grebe on the canal in Utrecht.

I too am looking forward to day 1 of IWC Utrecht.

#IndieWeb

Maybe it is because I had already noted a Washington Post piece about "real" food people ignoring the Magnolia cookbook, but I found Grant McCracken's piece about Martha Stewart doing the same so trenchant and also so sad. http://web.archive.org/web/20190514114829/https://medium.com/@grant27/martha-stewart-the-old-guard-d...

I got to the cube rule via Andy Baio, who also linked to soup-salad-sandwich-space. It is my duty, however, to point out that to a real topologist, there are only four foods, not six.

Thanks for your thoughts Aaron. You raise an issue that hadn't occurred to me: being able to eat things that you don't get at home because nobody else likes those things. I do that when I'm eating out, even if I'm not alone, but yes, that works too.

I just backed Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing on @Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timothybsmith/bokeh-private-independent-and-user-funded-photo-s...

Fine article on global diets, but lord it is annoying to discover that an image credit is baked into the image. Makes tracking down the original, so that I can give credit if I use it, that much more difficult.

Excellent news. 10Centuries now has a clickable permalink even for brief social status updates.

An IndieWeb Book Club is a really interesting idea for people who like that sort of thing, but I am a bit Groucho Marx about clubs. I may get around to the book, or I may not, but right now I will watch from the sidelines.

That's odd. Just when I want to be liking something specifically via micropub, my site starts playing up.

Drink it. Very refreshing. Can also be good in breads.

Very hard to believe that Tanner Campbell chose to put his very IndieWeb idea about podcasting on Medium rather than on his own domain. Of course, the idea will never work because the big players don't need it and the small ones won't hurt anyone by witholding their labour.

#IndieWeb
#podcasting

Is that the Original Willard, and the Original Lobby? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, apologies.)

Fastmail users: Is it possibly to delete the attachments from a batch of emails either as a batch or with a script of some sort?

I do not want to delete the emails, only the attachments.

Good to see that Italy did the right thing and voted against the EU Copyright Directive.

Kudos too to Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Finland and Sweden.

"Allegedly"? Puhleeze!

Having a fun time thinking about hot cross buns and shank bones, among other things, for the next episode.