2019
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?
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.
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.
"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.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
- 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.