A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
TFW you forget to Start a Workout when you start a workout -- and you feel somehow you‘ve cheated yourself even tough, of course, you haven‘t.
We saw The French Dispatch this afternoon and it was a total delight, if you are into that kind of thing. Want to watch it again immediately as there were so many visual treats that went flying by. Probably not for everyone, but for me a solid 5/5.
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@jeremycherfas Where/how did you see it? Theater?
, Nov 20 2021 on micro.blog
@JMaxB Yup. Local cinema. Suitably masked and socially distant.
, Nov 20 2021 on micro.blog
Why butter chicken, why not tomato chicken? @KanjiSuch explains:
If I had to guess, it would be that butter makes it sound fancier and nicer than just saying tomato chicken, because tomatoes are in many other chicken dishes, too.
From the transcript, now available.
There is, in my mind at least, some confusion between discoverability and promotion. That is, I want people to be able to find my podcast, which means I both need to promote it where the ears are and, if possible, make sure the ears can find it.
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@jeremycherfas Yeah, I wish there were some happy medium between the feeling of shouting into the void and the feeling that, at any moment, a million screaming randos might show up on my doorstep. I think you are right that it the slow, hard work of building community with webring-like tools is probably the best approach.
, Nov 15 2021 on micro.blog
I've lost track, Ton. What are you using now as your feed reader?
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I am using FreshRSS currently. I've dabbled a bit with Aperture/Monocle, with Yarns on Wordpress and with using a TinyTinyRSS instance. My TinyTInyRSS instance kept bumping into some 'bad bot' filters my hoster has in place (the same is true for FreshRSS btw). The upside to me for both Tiny and Fresh is that I find their php and mysql tech accessible, and have no trouble running it locally. Or at least more accessible than any of the IndieWeb stuff. I'd like to get to a working locally run Aperture/Monocle combo but can't and haven't figured out why. With Yarns, which has as a pre above Aperture it lives in the WP ecosystem I am at least more familiar with, I have issue with it storing all feeds in the WP content tables, even though everything in a feed reader is/should be ephemeral imo, just providing enough time to do something with whatever gets fetched (respond, bookmark, download to notes etc). Ideally I'd run yarns in a separate WP install to prevent it polluting my blogs database, but then you're back to how to ensure my 'reader' Wordpress instance can post to my 'blogging' WP instance.
Can anyone tell me which template I need to edit to add an extra link to <head> in @withknown CMS?
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@jeremycherfas are you ahead of me, and fully up to date with GitHub?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
That html tag has got lost… #POSSEhiccough
, Nov 13 2021 on twitter.com
Yeah. WithKnown is wonderful, but it does have issues with, IMHO, over-aggressive tag stripping.
@cn I'm on Version: 1.2.2+2020061101
Github is at 1.3.1 202120201
But, y’know, inertia. Is the latest any less agressive about stripping tags?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I don’t know, I sent a reply from my blog which may not have reached you regarding use of FooterJS in lieu of template hacking; although I can certainly look into that for us…
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn No sign of it yet … And no rush either. I might just bite the bullet and upgrade. But not today.
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas my install may warrant diagnosis (being PostgreSQL, and older than current…)
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas having “PubSubHubbub hub” field empty possibly not helping?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn Mine? Yours? I think all this recent crypticity is affecting your communication. 😀
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas the field in my settings was blank; your blog gets twitter replies (via brid.gy?) which has stopped working for me (Stars happen).
The “crypticity” is a distraction from the week plus common(ish) cold 🤧
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn Get well soon. In the meantime, I am somewhat distracted myself.
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
For the sake of completion, the solution is to edit Themes/Solo/templates/default/solo/shell/head.tpl.php or the equivalent file in whatever theme you are using.
And remembering to edit it again when you upgrade…
Also on: @EatPodcast
Created an account at alltogethernow.io. It's a start.
Intrigued by a new role-playing board game called Rulal Commerce, based on China's demand for tea and what it is doing to Laos. Can't find any explanation of the significance of the name, though. Does it, I wonder, mean anything?
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Step aside 75%, which achieved mythic status as the amount of genetic diversity lost since ~1903. The new not number is "almost 80%", the proportion of studies in a global meta-analysis that found evidence of some genetic erosion. I hope that's clear.
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Huge congratulations to Chris Otter, whose fascinating book Diet for a Large Planet has just won the AHA Bentley Prize in World History. We had a great chat about how the British created global food outsourcing and made it was it is today.
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