A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Well, that's nice. My 10-year anniversary with Grav.
Ready to deploy? -- https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ready-to-deploy
New episode: The easiest way to be absolutely certain that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants.
https://eatthispodcast.com/give-again
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Put new tyres and tubes on the bike so took it out into the park where there happened to be a Rabbit to bag. Bike rode smoothly and managed to get on top of the Quest, at least according to the phone.
* On bicycle
* 41.8811, 12.4440
* 8 December 2025
* 427.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
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Rabbit Quest to the rescue again to pull me out of a bit of a Sunday afternoon funk. Down in my old ‘hood, where the gasometer and other hulking relics of the old coal-powered generating stations loom over the river.
* On foot
* 41.8696, 12.4745
* 7 December 2025
* 427.28 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
https://eatthispodcast.com/berlin
The irony of someone on Shitstack telling us that the real internet is somewhere other than “TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter” is not lost on me.
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/
A jumpers-for-goalposts post about the origins of WordPress that contains this gem
“Then the little blogging tool did what software does best: it quietly turned into something much bigger.”
Which is what is wrong with so many little software tools. They can’t leave well enough alone. And I get it, but sheesh.
Top albums for the week ending 20 November from last.fm
1. Miss Perfumado Cesária Évora 14
2. Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1 8
3. Didn’t It Rain 6
Took the plunge and installed first Docker and then Uptime-Kuma on my resuscitated Pi, and I am both impressed and happy. Tomorrow I will think about how to notify myself if there is a problem. For now, touch wood, no need.
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