A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
"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.
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.
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“Amazingly, the link still works”
Two amazing things
1) In a piece looking back over 1000 of his linkblog posts, Charles Arthur finds it remarkable that a link from 2010 still works.
2) The piece seems to be on Medium and nowhere else.
I reckon the two observatiuons are linked (haha). Which makes me wonder whether to even share this . Will it still work in 2028? Or would be better of owning his stuff somewhere else?
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.
<Smacks forehead>
I'm instantly adding the -day-of-week code outlined here into my one-line-per-day journal of sorts.
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
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Once again, there is chatter about how @Withknown deals with hashtags and HTML I still believe that it often removes a hashtag from the content of an Instagram description, sent here by OwnYourGram. I'll test that in a moment. And there certainly were problems with certain characters in Titles and body. So this is a test of this <- and that.
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Learn something new every day. I can use email to post to this site with Quill. Never needed it before, but good to know.
Dear reporters seeking to impress me,
“Exponentially” does not mean “very large”.
Yours etc.
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Eventually very large?
, Jan 24 2019 on twitter.com
@jeremycherfas But it does lead to "very large" very quickly.
, Jan 24 2019 on micro.blog
Negative exponents?
, Jan 24 2019 on twitter.com
@artkavanagh Negative exponents?
, Jan 24 2019 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I suppose your share price/income/Twitter following etc could suffer a "very large" drop.
, Jan 24 2019 on micro.blog
Eventually very large or very small?
, Jan 24 2019 on twitter.com
@jeremycherfas isn’t this just all relative
, Jan 25 2019 on micro.blog
@iKeating isn’t everything?
, Jan 25 2019 on micro.blog
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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
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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.
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@jeremycherfas It's only supposed to include the enclosure if the URL isn't also part of the post already. Is it possible that the image URLs for enclosure and in the HTML were different?
, Jan 21 2019 on micro.blog
@help I put an extract in a gist gist.github.com/jeremyche...
Looks like there are two versions, one as data-original-image and one as data-footer, and then the enclosure version contains an eltra element in the URL but points in the end to the same blob.
Still not sure where to fix.
, Jan 21 2019 on micro.blog
@help Done. Now to wait ...
, Jan 22 2019 on micro.blog
@help Looks like everything Just Works.
Thanks.
, Jan 24 2019 on micro.blog
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/
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No coincidence at all, of course -- this is the podcast episode that made we want to read the book!
Darn. I wanted it to be something weird.
Replied to a post by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (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/ Ohhh! Thanks for the reminder. I’d subscribed to Broken Record a year ago when they put out their sample episode and then it’s sat barren for so long I’d nearly forgotten about it. Glad to see that episodes are now piling up.
Absolutely we need more and better tools, but the basics are definitely there for the major CMSs and even more so for people who are comfortable developing their own sites.
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My main concern has been that even while IndieWeb principles, patterns, and protocols are re-usable in many ways, the main part of examples are written in PHP. We might need more examples in multiple languages to widen up the ecosystem of interconnected self-hosted sites.
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Just wondering why @adactio's sparklines contain only 131 points on the x-axis. Maybe because a day on which nothing is posted is not recorded? Getting ready to publish my own first sparkline and want to do the right thing.
Chris Aldrich's clever solution for not drawing attention to visible but "hidden" links doesn't quite work as advertised, at least not for me in Firefox on OSX.
This post opened a whole can of worms relating to Grav's public comments plugin. Despite being authored by "Team Grav" it hasn't been touched for going on two years and just doesn't work. It sends the notification email correctly, but does not acknowledge the comment and does not save the data.
I've taken a first look at the code, and it seems like I might just be able to wrap my head around it, but I will need hours free to do that. Hours that I do not currently have.
I could disable public comments again, and just accept Webmentions (which this post is intended to test). But although Comments are rare, some are worthwhile beyond mere affirmation, so I am loathe to do that.
P.s. It also raises again the need to fix Known's HTML-escaping problem, and makes me wonder why the comment is truncated when it gets to jeremycherfas.net -- which means looking at the templates there in more detail.
A feed reader that offers control over deletion of old posts is good, I agree. A combination of age of post and number of posts per poster would be great. Like "delete all except the previous five posts per feed". Wouldn't work in MB, of course ...
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@jeremycherfas are you sure you want that ;o)
, Jan 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cn Genius truncation strikes again. But yes. If I want it for others, they should have it for me.
, Jan 07 2019 on micro.blog
Because it is an inescapable law of journalism that a simple yes/no question in a headline almost always requires a "No". And in this particular case, I do not believe blogging waned in 2018. QED.
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@jeremycherfas Definitely one of my favorite Nancy comic strips in a long time.
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Olivia Jaimes is great and I love her Nancy reboot. Thanks also for the link to the comics RSS! I had been slogging through the gocomics website previously and now my life is improved
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
@vasta I find the reboot gives me enormous pleasure every time.
, Dec 13 2018 on micro.blog
Not a crazy idea at all. And it reminds me that I failed to link to a very impressive presentation by the very impressive David Runciman. https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/129-democracy-for-young-people He would give 6-year olds the vote.
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Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars:
If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero.
Not quite a hero, I can at least count myself a mini-hero.
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Replied to How Long Should a Podcast Be? by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas) Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars:
If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero.
Not quite a hero, I can at least count myself a mini-hero. Definitely some sage advice. I recall The Economist going a step further in their analysis a few years back and providing visuals on a 4 minute video: The hidden cost of Gangnam Style: What humanity could achieve if it weren’t galloping in front of computer screens
The hidden cost of Gangnam Style
I think that you capture something important here Jeremy. For me what matters is how much effort has been given to edit the content and remove the cruft.
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Jeremy cherfas is the well known writer of this century. He is famous for the suppleness that are still like by many of the people. We should also read the blogs about him to gain knowledge for our own self.
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@cn Re: OwnYourGram I'm all set up for watching logs in real time now, but not seeing a way to either resend or nudge OwnYourGram. Can you tell me what I’m looking for?
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@jeremycherfas OK, found it.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it’s stopped working for me 🤡
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Oh perfect!. Remind me why we do this stuff.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas [sado]masochism
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Anyway, I think I now have a sensible debug report that I have added to the issue.
, Nov 25 2018 on micro.blog
I don't follow Dave Winer religiously, so I don't know whether he revisited his predictions for what Twitter was or would become. I do know that @brentsimmons stopped narrating his work there less than a year after he started. YMMV.
Updated to latest HEAD of WithKnown and hoping that might solve the multiple-photo problem. Better create a multiple photo post on Instagram, then.
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@jeremycherfas Alas, no end in sight.
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it worked for me, can send my copy of Micropub/Endpoint.php if that would help?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I just did a pull; is that enough?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas potentially, does your copy now have the recent debug changes etc?
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I didn’t do anything with hashtags, so do not know their effect on a multi–photo post
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I don’t know for sure. I've asked Marcus on Twitter where I find the debug stuff.
And I’ve given up on hashtags because Known strips them.
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it shows up in my nginx error log; it will depend on web server, and host …
, Nov 22 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Apache. Dreamhost. I will take a look.
, Nov 23 2018 on micro.blog
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@jeremycherfas posts like this appear on micro.blog without their context 🙃
, Nov 18 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Indeed they do. And it is annoying, I know. But I haven’t figured out how to provide a feed that includes replies to things here but not to things somewhere else.
, Nov 18 2018 on micro.blog
Tiny bit peeved that for the first time this morning trails.io refused to record my activity. Coincidentally, or not, a popup informed me that my Pro subscription would end soonish. I confess I didn't hear the start countdown beeps, so I should have checked.
In a word, yes. Or no, if you think that maybe the userbase is not the people who supply the content, but the people who supply the advertisements.
Kudos to @rosenblawg and Bryce Stucki for prompting the first ever retraction and correction by CDC http://retractionwatch.com/2018/11/15/in-a-first-u-s-cdc-retracts-replaces-study-about-suicide-risk-...
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I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude -- who doesn't -- and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don't actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.
I really like @sebsel's idea of push without notifications, as described by @adactio, but I think I would like it even more if there were some way I could _ask_ if there was anything new rather than have to visit the site. Notify myself, if you like.
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Meetup location:
* 41.802416°, 12.617251° or
* N41°48.145', E12°37.035' or
* N41°48'8.7", E12°37'2.1"
DJIA adjusted for location east
of the 30W longitude
For the first time since I started checking, today's geohash location is actually somewhere I could easily have reached.
Once again, thanks to @cn for alerting me to a bug that hits every time I upgrade Grav. I applied the same fix again, so with luck all will be well again.
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@jeremycherfas Ignore me; something else is screwy.
, Nov 07 2018 on micro.blog
Terrific 99pi on the role of art and illustration in the dinosaur revolution https://overcast.fm/+DC83Lgo
Trying to remember that weird illustrated book about future evolution.
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So interesting to see some of the changes that are happening at Flickr. I'd more or less given up on it as a place to share some of my images, and now I'm beginning to think it is becoming more attractive again. I've been a paying user for a long, long time, without really thinking about it. I'm not too bothered about the "silo" aspects of the site, as I have copies of the images themselves. I suppose I ought to look into grabbing comments, likes and so on, but not with all that much urgency. It's the images that count.
The thing I find most interesting about this most recent blog post is this:
Lastly, we looked at our members and found a clear line between Free and Pro accounts: the overwhelming majority of Pros have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, and the vast majority of Free members have fewer than 1,000. We believe we’ve landed on a fair and generous place to draw the line.
I'd love to see the raw histogram of number of images and videos per user.
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So, that's what an Overton window is. Thanks to Alice Bartlett for prompting me to find out.
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@jeremycherfas I think about the Overton Window just about every day now.
, Nov 01 2018 on micro.blog
@bitdepth I now have a name for it, which I did not have before.
, Nov 01 2018 on micro.blog
Quick thank-you to @fiona for posting the link to Mike Hapgood’s The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
So much to read and think about. And to compare with the Zettelkasten approach to tending one's garden.
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