Jeremy Cherfas

There has to be a better music library manager and player for OSX than Apple's Music app, but which one? Your recommendations, please. Please!

TIL about the Bismarck Archipelago in the Bismarck Sea. Who knew? Not me, obviously.

My Dad would have been 100 today. I can't say I miss him every day, because that would not be true. But still.

I wish I knew why @launchcenterpro had suddenly decided to lock most of the functionality, but hey, that kind of behaviour is unlikely to encourage me to pay anything.

Does anyone know what happened to The Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit? Did it turn out to be, er, unsustainable? Or something else?

http://pcfisu.org/ #pcfisu

Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all `venvs` and tinkering in `.zshrc` everything seems to be operational. For now ...

Prompted by In Our Time, we (re)watched Citizen Kane last night. It really is very good, and holds up remarkably well. Lots more to look out for, thanks to the discussion.

I liked rss.app, but in all honesty is just is not worth $8.32 a month for me. I'll find another way ...

Spending time cleaning up my RSS feeds in Newsblur and it isn't easy. I can export the OPML, and work directly on that, but is there a tool that will let me do so easily? Codebeautify's treeview doesn't let me edit the tree. opml.org seems dead. Is there anything else?

#IndieWeb

My morning is disrupted. Something seems to be wrong @gocomics and I cannot get my daily dose of Nancy by Olivia Jaimes

Indeed. Currently editing my next episode, from @ECLLD recent meeting in Budapest, celebrating how the new EU reg on OHM is allowing farmers and food producers to be more sustainable and nutritious.

Hey @help. If I were to switch to a paid account (keeping my own domain) is there a way to import old posts from the RSS feed created by an export from Known?

Feels stupidly good to be deleting ~5000 spam emails (since 9/21) and ~62,000 emails from Trash. I mean, they don't cost me anything directly, but still good to clear out. Also deleted everything pre 1/1/2018; nobody needs more than five years of email archive, do they?

New Years Eve at some point crossing the Atlantic. Time zones are hard.

I appreciate that other podcasters include transcripts of their shows, but can't you go the extra step of actually checking the transcript against delivery, as those speechifying press releases put it?

New edition of Eat This Newsletter is out, with a few choice items and a reminder that the next podcast episode will go live on 24 December, for reasons. Read the newsletter at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/exchanges/ and, if you're so inclined sign up too. Thanks./

Well, that's a shame. I get a message saying No video with supported format and MIME type found. I was looking forward to watching "yeasty fireworks".

This sounds exactly like Amotz Zahavi's Handicap Principle. Any signal should involve a cost, to prevent cheats from issuing false signals.

Either I've enjoyed a step change in fitness -- avge heartrate during HIIT down from 125 to 116 -- or Apple has changed what my watch is doing. I know where my money is.

Thanks Google. Three of the top 10 search terms that brought people to my podcast site involved wheat pennies. Alas, none wanted to hear about wheat and the growth of empires. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/empire-grain/

Just finished tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter so I am going to take a nap and then read, because I can.

Shout-out to the intelligent, attractive, and discerning people of Ireland 🇮🇪 for helping put the podcast in the charts there. Brazil also gets an honourable mention 🇧🇷 for beating its previous best by quite a margin.

https://ooh.directory/

So that’s what $project was! A new blog directory from Phil Gyford. Reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire s04.

#indieweb

TIL just how easy it is to write functions in zsh to automate little chains.

Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.

Is that the standard Activity display you have? My watch is a 6SE and I do not usually see heart rate because the strap is loose and never have the map or weather.

What's missing, for me, is a solid social reader that is as easy to use as the Big Silo. I'm using one now, which gives a bit more context that a simple RSS feed and allows me to reply, I hope. A single place to interact, rather than N different places.

Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/primed-power-short-cultural-history-protein

As CSNY never sang, Feed Your Children Well

When I published last week's episode, talking to @TinaMoffat3 about how important school meals are in showing children what it means to eat well, I had no inkling that this would be #NationalSchoolMealsWeek

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/small-bites/

Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter, concocted from bits and pieces of edible material found here and there. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-190-inundated-3184/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.

Improvements over at searchmysite.net -- where searches can now be converted to feeds and, thus, subscribed to, definitely merit further investigation. https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/lots-of-new-web-feed-rss-and-atom-related-functionality/

I've never really understood why Byword has not so far embraced micropub, which would enable posting to all sorts of different recipient systems. I never used it to post to WordPress because I has MarsEdit for that, but I would surely use it to post here.

#IndieWeb

The Squeeze smelled something odd as we got on the plane. Minutes later, the captain agreed and called an engineer with a thick binder to confirm. Something was well dodgy, so here we are languishing back in the terminal and waiting for a new plane. The Romance of Travel.™️

Currently reading: Dark Star by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375759994

#Fiction

Finished reading: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, ISBN: 9780142438008

#Fiction

Python dabblers: how do you avoid the dreaded "module not found" errors, when you know you installed the modules? I tried to get into virtual environments, but it seems like overkill. One nice all-encompassing install would do it for me, but it may be too late. Help!

Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.

When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/

With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi

In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.

Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/

Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/

Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.

What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.

Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome's museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven't? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/

First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!

It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to "drink the Snake juice" without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/fad-diets/

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Finished reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby

This is a first. Never before had a sign-up say "Email address is invalid. Can you try a different one?" for a masked email from @Fastmail. Step forward sonix.ai to claim your prize.

This is very bad news for me. On the one foot, NB 624s are the only sneaker-type shoes that come in a width that accommodates my misshapen feet. On the other, I'm reluctant to add to the CEO's profits. Recommend another brand, please.

Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an M2 MacBook Pro worth €100? That’s the price difference from an M2 MBA, and the MBP has a slightly smaller screen and weighs 160 gm more. I’ve never seen anyone rave about a touchbar. So, what’s the deal? All thoughts welcome.