Jeremy Cherfas

A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.

TIL that only 5% of podcasts have been updated in the past 90 days ... and mine was one of them

https://podcastindex.org/

Replied to a post on jmac.org :

The alternative book page at micro.blog is a more interesting to a straight Amazon link, but I do not understand how a new book finds its way onto that list.

New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-133-entirely-whole/ with thanks to @bittman @PhilMagowa_n @vidya83 @IsaRossellini and many others.

I still have questions: Were there forms of human #malaria in South America before the slave trade?

What fevers did local people use #cinchona bark to cure?

I’m sure there is an answer. I just have not been able to find it. Someone — anyone — please help.

Withnail and I has lost none of its charm over the past 35 years.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 10 August 2020

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@jeremycherfas Such a great film.

bitdepth, Aug 10 2020 on micro.blog

Slightly worrying; the new activity monitor (Xiaomi Mi-band 5) records 2846 steps to the 3000 of the old activity monitor (Garmin Vivofit). On the other hand, I have no good reason to trust the accuracy of the Garmin.

Just listened to fabulous @Transom_org show with @MairBosworth and Fiona Benson about their amazing series In The Company of Insects. Having heard Magicicada, I now I need to listen to them all. So do you, @nicolakidsbooks

Probably a good idea to disconnect the Photos feed while I iron out a lot of wrinkles.

One step closer to PESOS from Instagram

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I had been barking up the wrong tree, trying to address `photo/edit` in order to create a photo post in WithKnown. Going through my old notes, I figured out how to do it through `micropub/endpoint` instead, which makes a whole lot more sense. Probably I should have started there.

Anyway, I know have the bare bones of being able to post automatically to WithKnown from the RSS feed of my Instagram account. Now I "just" need to build out all the rest; read the RSS feed, extract the relevant bits of data, construct the API request and bung it off.

Which will probably take forever, but hey.

#IndieWeb

PESOS from Instagram?

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At last night's online HWC we talked a bit about getting pictures in and out of Instagram, now that they have become so much stricter about the API. Getting images into Instagram except through approved apps seems to be getting harder and harder, and is probably impossible by now. Getting images out of Instagram is also not obviously easy. But ...

A new (to me) thing, called Bibliogram, can, under the right conditions, create an RSS or Atom feed from one's profile. I poked around, and the feed contains a link to the image, caption and date and time. The link to the image works. So maybe ...

I could send the feed to IFTTT or Zapier or similar, and have that create a post via Micropub to my instance of WithKnown. Or even, if I ever get it working, to my main site, which uses Grav.

But I can't even try for a couple of days.

#IndieWeb

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 23 July 2020

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@jeremycherfas This is one of the issues that helps to jog my memory as to why I am holding off from much photoblogging at the minute. Between forthcoming upates to Sunlit and the continued progress of Bokeh, I feel optimistic that I will be able to soon entirely dismiss the virtues of Instagram.

simonwoods, Jul 23 2020 on micro.blog

@simonwoods The main virtues of Instagram for me are that nmost of my friends are there and won't move, and there is a greater chance I will attract someone fresh to the podcast there than anywhere else. But I'd still like to put the pictures on my own site too without being completely manual about it.

jeremycherfas, Jul 23 2020 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas Yep, same here; I'll use the silos as basic broadcasting tools when relevant but for personal use with Instagram I have a plan. I'll keep the Instagram account but will leave links (lol, I mean a link) to the relevant active places once I'm all set to go, and then will log out of Instagram, delete the app, and never look at it again.
I like POSSE as a philosophy but am unlikely to implement it in its current state. Too much fiddling and busy work to fit into my life, though I do keep an eye out for improvements to the environment.

simonwoods, Jul 23 2020 on micro.blog

Henrik Carlsson, Jul 23 2020 on blog.henrikcarlsson.se

With a little time to pursue this idea, I first upgraded to WithKnown 1.2.2 and then experimented with various API calls. I was able to create a Photo post, which included the description. But no image. At a loss, now, because the image from Bibliogram is definitely available and my RSS reader can see it. So I wonder why WithKnown cannot. Or maybe it can, but then fails to insert the image into the post. Also, apologies for spamming the micro.blog timeline.

Jeremy Cherfas, Jul 25 2020 on stream.jeremycherfas.net