Adactio: Journal—What a day that was


ongoing by Tim Bray · Pink Floyd Dad Jokes


Still trying to work out why a ...

Still trying to work out why a photo that includes a hashtag (from Instagram) fails to show as a photo on micro.blog, while a photo without any hashtags shows up just fine.

Anyone have a clue?


That’s a lot better. Second attempt at fig (not gig) and walnut. This one may be ready to move into the rotation.

#sourdough


Gig and walnut; tasted great, the problem is distribution.

#showusyourfuckedloaves #sourdough


Sparkline Sound-Off – Chris Burnell


Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book

logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.


Joseph Cornell waiting for his muse.


@kevinmarks Very much this.

@kevinmarks Very much this.


Spring is coming!


2019-03-05

There is order in the universe. I know, because on the very day that I finally knuckled down and wrote a pathetic little spreadsheet to do some bread calculations for me, the Gods of Serendipity put Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL in one of my RSS feeds, and my gob is smacked.


Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?

Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I’d be out of a job.h/t Chris Aldrich


Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009

Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And “little lexical tchotchkes from the past” – even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes – is too good to pass up.


Latest episode: We need to talk about meat. Not arguing pro or con here, just trying to understand why it is that meat holds such a central place in discussions of a "good" diet -- in all senses. With Francesco Buscemi, cultural historian of meat.


Too busy tidying in the terrace to remember to take photos, so here’s that orchid again. Current score: 11


"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"

I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.PESOS from Reading.am.


The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles

Keep calm and snack on.


My bread day is done, and there are seven more inside.


22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate

  1. Make your own coffee. It’s cheaper, it’s better and it’s therapeutic.4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it’s not cheaper.Depends how you measure cost, obviouslyh/t Matthew Lang

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Real bread week, eh? Or, as I like to call it, Bread Week. Every week. 3kg of 50% wholewheat out of the fridge and ready for action.