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Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on seblog.nl :

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





Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

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?





Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

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/

Jeremy Cherfas

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?

Jeremy Cherfas

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.





Jeremy Cherfas

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

Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

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...

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

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...

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

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

Jeremy Cherfas

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.





Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on miklb.com :

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





Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on medium.com :

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.






Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

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.





Jeremy Cherfas

"Allegedly"? Puhleeze!





Jeremy Cherfas

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





Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on jmduke.com :

Alas, the link to the "really powerful tools" for automation goes nowhere. Or rather, it returns me to the page it is on. @justinmduke

Jeremy Cherfas

So good to be back home after a week away. I mean, I had a great time and all, but home is best.

Jeremy Cherfas

Friends of the Fountain Pen: How do you cope with bottles of ink that are wide and shallow? Is a syringe the only option for making use of the remaining ink when the pen filler simply won't work?

Jeremy Cherfas

I have never, for one second, regretted the money I spent on my chair more than 20 years ago. Not even when I had to have two technicians here to replace the seat. And now that the gas spring is leaking a bit, I might have to have them back. Truly, what's the point of a decent keyboard if you tie yourself in knots using it all day?





Jeremy Cherfas

Waiting to hear Lawrence Lessing talk about the EU proposals and other stuff. A tick for the life list.

Jeremy Cherfas

The rebirth of long dormant blogs is one of the great reasons to use a feed reader. There is absolutely no overhead.





Jeremy Cherfas

Still trying to work out why a photo that includes a hashtag (from Instagram) fails to show as a photo on micro.blog, while a photo without any hashtags shows up just fine.

Anyone have a clue?

Jeremy Cherfas

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-ballpark/ Now to listen to Chavez Ravine again.

Jeremy Cherfas

TIL: beets and bougainvillea are a lot more closely related than I ever imagined.

Jeremy Cherfas

This news of a site for IndieWeb on Textpattern is very exciting. I used to use TXP back in the day for one of my sites, but moved it to WP. Maybe I'll move it back ...





Jeremy Cherfas

Sorry about cluttering the timeline. Error diagnosed, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

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"a podcast inspired by an Instagram account, covering the dating lives, drunken escapades, and makeup lines of superstar digital citizens"

Er, no. I don't think so.

Jeremy Cherfas

I've been subscribing to Craig Mod for a couple of weeks, but missed this, so thanks. One tiny quibble. The footnotes in the quote go to Craig's site, which means that when I'm done reading them, I have no easy way to get back to you. I know, pretty minor. But still.





Jeremy Cherfas

Note to future self: to clean up single-use tags in Pinboard, go to “manage” under tags and then “used once”.

And good luck with keeping up.

Jeremy Cherfas

I'm glad you found something that works for you. I tried a similar thing myself (3 podcasts a week) for a while, and used Huffduffer to make the feed, but came across too many walled gardens to keep bothering.





Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on miklb.com :

That takes me back.





Jeremy Cherfas

I'm still getting spam through public comments. I divert the notifications to a special mailbox and keep on top of them, deleting anything I find, and, touch wood, it may be declining.





Jeremy Cherfas

<Smacks forehead>

I'm instantly adding the -day-of-week code outlined here into my one-line-per-day journal of sorts.

Jeremy Cherfas

Forewarned is forearmed; thanks.





Jeremy Cherfas

Intersecting milk cartons is indeed cool, as Chris noted. Equally cool, maybe more so, is the Miuri fold, which I learned about in the Christmas Economist. https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/origami-spreads-its-wings





Jeremy Cherfas

Dear reporters seeking to impress me,

“Exponentially” does not mean “very large”.

Yours etc.

Jeremy Cherfas

Chris, I don't know what got you into all this strong names stuff, but I want to take the opportunity to point to my own pet peeve and a fine band, together at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/eagles-point-the-way





Jeremy Cherfas

I stopped sharing photo posts to micro.blog because they were being duplicated. Pretty sure now that's because the RSS contains the image twice, as part of the CDATA and again as an enclosure. Not sure whether to fix in @WithKnown or ask @help at micro.blog to ignore enclosure.

Jeremy Cherfas

Quite by coincidence, I'm sure I just yesterday listened to Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Hill talking about Lords of Chaos and the black metal scene. https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/#/episode-7-dave-hill/