Jeremy Cherfas

I think Bumper is onto something here for sure, in that the main reason for big download numbers is to sell advertising, whereas I would just like some sort of measure of whether people find my episodes interesting and whether that is going up or down. If data collection could be automated …

So, my online friend Jason has brought a new puppy into his life, and she does look very good. I feel the pull too.

TIL about the Bismarck Archipelago in the Bismarck Sea. Who knew? Not me, obviously.

My Dad would have been 100 today. I can’t say I miss him every day, because that would not be true. But still.

I’m sure I could make use of at least some of this, in my bumbling, amateur way. I also wish it wasn’t a Twitter thread. Need to find time to save the details for myself.

I wish I knew why @launchcenterpro had suddenly decided to lock most of the functionality, but hey, that kind of behaviour is unlikely to encourage me to pay anything.

Does anyone know what happened to The Prince’s Charities International Sustainability Unit? Did it turn out to be, er, unsustainable? Or something else?

pcfisu.org #pcfisu

Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all venvs and tinkering in .zshrc everything seems to be operational. For now …

Prompted by In Our Time, we (re)watched Citizen Kane last night. It really is very good, and holds up remarkably well. Lots more to look out for, thanks to the discussion.

Classy dissection.

Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

I liked rss.app, but in all honesty is just is not worth $8.32 a month for me. I’ll find another way …

Very thought provoking and quite apart from reading and thinking about it, I’m feeling the need actually to do something about it.it’s a truism that anyone who wants you to stop thinking isn’t your friend but it’s equally true that anyone who insists that you think in exactly the way they’ve deemed proper is also not your friend.