Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game by William Kennedy, ISBN: 9780140063400

#Fiction

Interesting to come across Bryan Lehrer’s piece on the same day as Ben Werdmuller’s. Personal histories, both focussed on building for the internet, sorta, and both coming, I think, to the same conclusion: money is essential and money spoils everything.

#IndieWeb

Very interesting personal history from @benwerd … and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.

#IndieWeb

I fundamentally disagree. My best days start slowly, with hydration (tea), a little light scrolling, some internal planning and generally enjoying a bit of peace and quiet and loving company. An hour will do.

Latest Eat This Newsletter includes:

Can you talk about the hummus wars when there is an actual war on?

School food in Nairobi

Global — and Californian — production of calories

Silent Doritos

buttondown.email/jeremyche…

Finally offered the opportunity to pay to go ad free on Meta. At 12.99 a month, enough to put off most people, something tells me my information is worth much more than that. They’re not stupid.

I agree that part of the art of hyperlinking is to give people an idea of why you think this thing worth linking to. That’s probably easier in 500 characters than 300, but it is easier still when you’re not thinking about length, hence the value of a site you control.

While people are understandably impressed by the murmurations of starling flocks, I am reminded of a brief clip of dunlin doing likewise, with one great advantage over starlings: their white undersides.

www.youtube.com/watch

Rats! Looks like I need a new uninterruptible power supply, suitable for a Raspberry Pi and an iMac. Anyone got any recommendations?

Sensitized to broken links, and wondering what happens when a Mastodon post cannot be found, as the original to which you were replying. My understanding is that you cannot Archive toots.

Yes: