Jeremy Cherfas

I really need to automate my little script that fetches things I've saved to reading.am, because when I do it by hand it just shoves a giant indigestible bolus into the timeline. That might mean automating MAMP too.

Thanks Aaron for your mention of my wheat and bread podcasts. You raise an interesting question about aboriginal bread in Australia. I've listened to a podcast with Bruce Pascoe and read a general piece that was awfully muddled, but I have not read his book. I have no reason not to take his claims at face value, although I also think that the freight he is adding to those claims owes as much to the general status and recent past history of aboriginal people in Australia as it does to archaeology. I will certainly be including something in the book I am working on.

Chris Aldrich's discussion of the rewarding discovery that a friend has read something that you are reading, before you see it in their feed, is spot on. It is fun. And it reminds me of two things. The most important is that I really need to get to grips with my tags, both in Zettelkasten and, perhaps even more importantly, in Pinboard.

The whole business of bookmarking, storing copies, highlighting and annotating remains a source of confusion for me. There are just too many moving parts. I quite like Chris' suggestion of making it a topic at a future IndieWeb Camp. I've got two projects on the go, either of which could be my thing in Nürnberg in a couple of weeks.

I've been a fan of Phil Gyford's since he made his own redesign of the Guardian's site. The Directory would probably be a good starting point for a good estimation of linkrot over a decade or more.

I could extract quote after quote from Colin Tudge's latest essay on agriculture, at http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2018/10/why-wont-the-powers-that-be-take-agriculture-seriously... but it would undermine the whole, just as a steak undermines a whole cow or an organic loaf of bread undermines the fertility-building beans needed to produce it. Just go read.

It's a great story. He told me how the UK started a trade war with France, which promptly shipped the good wines through Ireland. The Irish helped create the great wines of France. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/how-the-irish-created-the-great-wines-of-bordeaux-and-elsewhere/

Have you taken a look at indieweb.org? There are people doing lots more than hinting.

Define "significant". Many, many people are very happily using microformats to interact with one another. Micro.blog is built on microformats. Not enough for you?

While he was worrying like a terrier at the word "content" I believe John Philpin wasn't giving "own" quite the same third-degree. If, as some say, possession is nine-tenths of the law, then all those various places where he stores his stuff, even temporarily, could be said in some sense to own it. I quite like that thing you see inside books, that "The Author asserts their moral rights ..." There's nothing to stop you stealing it (well, aside from the law, in some cases, for people with deep pockets) but at least you know it would be immoral to do so.

Tomorrow is apparently International Podcast Day. Naturally, I am spending today editing a podcast that will go out on Monday.

I see that there is a service that offers to back up a journalist's pieces "independent from any publisher and ready to stay with you for your entire career" https://www.absw.org.uk/member-offers-services-and-opportunities/authory-build-your-article-archive-... Would people really rather pay for that than a site of their own?

Another reason to love RSS (or feeds in general). Actually, the same reason. After about four years of inactivity, a site I like springs back to life and I don't need to do anything to find out. http://www.wildyeastblog.com/

Didn’t Jesus say “no guacamole for immigrant haters”? I don't think he did, but maybe he should have.

http://gastropoda.com/2018/09/jam-and-bagels/

Sounds nothing like **My** bubba. https://open.spotify.com/track/4t2efW7DxJCeSDfW8ah2xY?si=GAPclbvoS_6bblmoCcEsTg

Can I blame flying on Sunday morning for the raging sore throat I developed yesterday evening?

So Flattr is now offering a way to reward podcasters. I dunno; seems to me like too little too late. I used to be a huge fan of Flattr, but its pivot put me off in a big way.

Going back to Firefox to see whether the new Omnibear works as well as I hope (and because Chrome really no longer suits my paranoia.

The one thing worse than no hotel WiFi is flaky hotel WiFi. Just as you think you might be able to get something useful done, BAM!, it pulls the rug out from under you.

Had an amazing nine-course tasting menu last night at The Edinburgh Food Studio. Photos would have ruined the experience. From the single radish to begin to the dram of Old Perth 1996 to finish it was a delight for eyes, nose and mouth. Superb all round.

The lack of threading at micro.blog saves me a lot of time in the morning. Time that I then spend going to my site to write this because posting on iOS is broken for me and the error message offers not even the slightest clue.

Next stop, Edinburgh 🛫🎧

I wonder how easy it is to count the corpses of yeast and lactobacillus cells in a baked loaf?

https://www.sourdough.co.uk/can-real-sourdough-identified/

Is there any way to get more helpful diagnostic information out of iOS app when it fails to post? Error Sending Post doesn't help much.

Also, why don’t @mentions from the OSX app give clickable links?

I was going to recommend @lioncourt for Micro Monday, but I’m making a last minute switch to @belle for her open explanation of an accident that could have happened to any of us.

Well, not me, because I'm not a developer, but, you know.

Listened to the first episode of Bundyville, because it was on 99PI. Instant subscribe. Very fine narrative podcast about an important subject.

Twitter weirdness. Ability to follow links seems to have changed. In Safari, with mu-block, I can click on a link shared directly by someone, but not on a link in a retweet. Is this a change in behaviour, or something I simply never noticed before? Or both.

#indieweb

Far and away the weirdest nagware I've ever seen. A website distributing PDFs of academic papers requires me to wait 120 seconds until I can download, but the clock ticks only while I am on that site. I can't go and do anything else. Of course, I can also "donate".

Terrific. FB Just banned a friend's link to my latest podcast episode (Brown v. White; Our Daily Bread 23). Twice, for reasons unspoken that I can only imagine. They did not ban my link to the same post.

Managed to find some time to join [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-08-22-homebrew-website-club) today. If you're interested in #indieweb and have a moment, come and join us.

After enjoying a lovely day off yesterday, I've been paying for it today. Haven’t been away from the desk for more than about half an hour at a time. Mind you, most of that was to make a bread, and now that I’m done, I think I’ll go for a walk while the microbes do their thing.

How I wish Prince had written a song called Purple Grain.

Episode 01 of my contribution to Dog Days of Podcasting is up. [The Abundance of Nature](https://www.eatthispodcast.com/our-daily-bread-01/)

I'm going to be exploring the history of wheat and bread every day in August.

Finished reading: Jackdaw Cake by Norman Lewis, ISBN: 9781906011826

Finished reading: White Tears by Hari Kunzru, ISBN: 9780451493699

Finished reading: On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal by Mary Taylor Simeti

Lots of people learning the lessons of the 2008 financial crash ten years on. It cannot be said too often, but Garrett Hardin foresaw the appeal of "privatise the profits, commonise the costs" many, many years ago.

The resurrection of blogrolls and webrings continues apace. I wonder whether this post will get me included.

Yes, it can be boring to read things in grey and white with a little bit of blue, but if all you're looking for is something worth investigating in more detail (which I am) then that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. And in some RSS readers (like Newsblur, the one I use now) I do have the option of seeing the story as the author intended, more or less.

TFW when you realise it has been way too long since you did the human cron job thing.

It says here https://indieweb.org that "The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the 'corporate web'", but that's just a start and of course there is more to it than that. More a state of mind than a thing, I'd say.

Finished reading: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris, ISBN: 9780571204687

Quick reminder that a 3-hour [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-06-13-homebrew-website-club) will be starting in about 22 minutes. We use [Mumble](https://indieweb.org/Mumble) to chat about anything and everything #IndieWeb. See you there.

Great explanation and interesting change, though I personally don't like such a dark background. One thing I noticed, the blue of the date-as-permalink in comments is really intense, to the point of distraction. For me.

Very happy to report that exist.io now includes browsing past calendar months.

Excellent news; thanks. Now to find all those hard-coded class names ...

I feed @WithKnown into micro.blog and POSSE to Twitter just fine. Known also makes it easy to feed micro.blog only certain kinds of post because the RSS is easy to adapt.