Jeremy Cherfas

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

I knew most of this history, as a relatively long-time user of Known, and I contribute to the project via Open Collective. A new version of Known would be even better than a functional exporter, but I would settle for that if I have to.

Revisiting Known

I've long known that the sky is polarised, but today I discovered while waking along the beach that rainbows are too. I happened to tilt my head to one side and a rainbow that had been faint and short became much brighter and extended across more of the sky. Strange.

Replied to a post on werd.io :

I know I shouldn't feel sad about this, but that's how it is when I see Ben Werdmuller talking about Known in the past tense. I am not a coder, so I have no idea how much work it would take to make it a fully-fledged citizen of the Fediverse, but that is something I hope for. And support.

TIL: a well-known and well-regarded weekly podcast that puts out 40 episodes a year is made by four people each working a full-time eight-hour day. That's a lot of time.

Accessibility notes from your headache-prone friend

TIL that ”the curb cut effect,” which I was familiar with, is “also known as the « i want subtitles on my favourite show because even though my ears are just fine, i like to eat crisps while watching » rule”.

My ears, by the way, are not fine.

Unable to login to Monocle

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Monocle would not allow me to login using this site, saying there was no microsub endpoint. This was because in upgrading Known, I had forgotten that I had added the link to microsub before. I had also forgotten which of the hundreds of template files I had to edit in order to do that. In the end I found it with a brute-force search for all files ending in `.tpl.php` The file in question lives at `./IdnoPlugins/IndiePub/templates/default/indiepub/shell/head.tpl.php`.

Having found the correct file to edit, the rest was straightforward thanks to [excellent instructions.

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?

@help If I were to move to a paid plan, is there a way to import posts from the RSS file exported from Known?

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century -- without which there would be no global wheat trade. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-persephone/