Jeremy Cherfas

As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I’ve decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.

Having moved my Dropbox folder to an external disk in an effort to reclaim space internally, I then discovered the value of an actual symlink, which means I don’t have to rewrite anything. This is a good thing.

The fight for “post” rather than “blog” is lost in many quarters, but the fight for “blog” itself is lost when none other than John Naughton can calmly point to a Substack newsletter with “Heather Cox Richardson had a memorable post on her blog:"

memex.naughtons.org/thursday-…

@michmacklem Ever since I started editing audio digitally, I’ve longed for a diff that would play all the stuff – call it noise if you must – that I’ve cut out of piece.

The latest issue of Eat This Newsletter just went winging its way to all the subscribers, who will be seeing what I make of raw material from @bearistotle, @battlesuperbugs and @whetstoneradio, among others. You can read it too, at buttondown.email/jeremyche…

The joy of correcting a human-powered transcription. When the transcriber hears

“Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy” as

“the Gordon’s Eyes Trilogy”

This is some of the most exciting news I have read in a long time. I hope Ben does find time to rebuild Known and would be willing to lend whatever support I can. “Another stable release” would be a wonderful start and would please lots of people.

Maybe: Not a great time for me, but I will try.

A very warm welcome to the [redacted] new podcast subscribers who joined via Google Podcasts this past month. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0…

You know where to find me.

I find it strange, and deeply ironic, that a year on, an otherwise fine article still boasts an obviously doctored photograph of NI Vavilov. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? See Nikolai Vavilov as he never was: A true scientist does not deserve a fake photo.

I hadn’t realised one of the bloggers I used to follow had suddenly died a while ago (because I stopped following him). Today, though, I was reminded of something he wrote not 6 but 16 years ago that is remarkably prescient. RIP @LanceMannion

TIL there are far-infrared mirrors. Can’t wait for next winter in the bathroom.

The value of the Gender Pay Gap bot, explained, withe link to the marvellous collection of organisations that felt it necessary to hide their shame.

I wonder what, exactly, makes this an architect’s table rather than just a table? I expected it to be some kind of drafting table.