Jeremy Cherfas

I thought I read that m.b re-polls feeds from time to time and picks up edits. In fact, I know it does. But what if a post on my connected site never actually made it here? Is there anything I can do to bring it in?

@rachellaudan What I really want to know is how close did your nose need to be to the grindstone.

What a ghastly afternoon. Power cut 15 minutes before I was due to record an interview with someone in New Mexico. The power came on a minute later, but the iMac was moribund. Luckily I was able to use the phone to email him, and he was cool about rescheduling. But I was stuck with a dead iMac until I thought of searching support. Turns out this was a thing, and there is a procedure, and everything is alright again. But still,

Just downloaded The Archive zettelkasten.de/the-archi… from Zettelkasten.de and rather hoping it plays nicely with nvALT and 1Writer (because I need iOS too)

A great intro to micro.blog and how it fits more generally into the #indieweb ecosystem. But I had to laugh at Eli saying that since he discovered micro.blog he is now a full-time PHP developer. I have just spent all morning, literally, trying to improve the sandpit ii8n which I play with PHP, and have just about given up, utterly defeated. How anyone ever gets XDebug to work is completely beyond me. VSCode, Atom, even PHPStorm all require the most astonishing acrobatics which I have simply been unable to perform. Now what?

This one is really interesting, and had never occurred to me. Not that I have much choice when changing continents.PROPERLY BREAKING UP A FLIGHT JOURNEYSimple rule, I’ve learned the hard way: 2 equal length legs of a journey are far better than one long leg and one short one. If the entire world is conspiring against you, and you cannot get a non-stop flight, pick the one with the most equal durations of flying times and try to get a 2 hour layover. That’s enough to pee, stretch, eat, and not stress if your incoming flight is delayed. Also: it’s always better to fly in and out of larger airports as there’s far better food options.

@beardfoundation Congratulations to all the podcast nominees. I look forward to sampling the one I haven’t yet tried.

Aaron Davis wonders “when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb?” To me, “belong to”, “in” and “part” signify slightly different depths of commitment, none of which conveys “citizenship”. The way I understand it, citizenship is granted by some other authority. You can’t just claim it for yourself.

I like Kartik Prabhu’s idea that posting to a domain you own is all it takes. “Everything else is a bonus”. But that’s a little like Robinson Crusoe being a citizen of his island. Interaction with others matters too.

#indiewebcitizen #indieweb

I love reading about how other people organise their reading and writing, although it seldom impacts my own system (which I hesitate to call a system). Chris Aldrich’s post is no exception, with lots of great ideas about how to find, filter and act on the firehose of stuff that’s out there. I can’t help but wonder whether Chris and I have discussed Zettelkasten methods in the past. zettelkasten.de

@SlackHQ I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn’t want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows #indieweb people to own their messages.

The good news is that #indieweb – the main channel for which I want both IRC and Slack – should be OK as it uses the Slack API. Or so I am reliably informed …

So disappointing that @slackhq is giving up on the gateway between Slack and IRC. I wonder why. No reason given. get.slack.help/hc/en-us/…

Duncan says:(Researchers themselves are sometimes the most reluctant to undertake user research before spending serious amounts of money on ineffective websites.)Strange, isn’t it.(The 9 rules themselves are at Medium and, I hope, somewhere else too. Because you never know.)

Remarkable: “High school students prefer vegetables seasoned with herbs and spices, rather than plain veggies”. I wonder whether this counts as industry-funded research, coming up with a result that suits industry. news.psu.edu/story/508…

#podcast #bread #London #Food_history