Jeremy Cherfas

For some reason, we both woke at our normal time and then slept on for another 90 minutes. TGIS

Fun and instructive.

There is a tide … which … delivers anchovies. I was so happy to learn that Peter Rukavina had both taken the plunge on anchovies and shared a blog post about them for me to explore. I’m also stealing his description: a “salty fishy kapow-offering friend,” although, hold the fishy.

Latest episode: the divisive anchovy.Love them? Get practical advice that can make them even better.Hate them? the failing probably is not yours.Listen at www.eatthispodcast.com/anchovies… and subscribe wherever et cetera.

I knew most of this history, as a relatively long-time user of Known, and I contribute to the project via Open Collective. A new version of Known would be even better than a functional exporter, but I would settle for that if I have to.

In the latest Eat This Newsletter

• Nutrition experts who feed off big food
• The tomato in India
• Tainted turmeric
• Cloves, with a hitch
• 陈麻婆豆腐: is the story true?

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche… and please consider subscribing.

Yet another plea for proper micropayments that don’t gouge payer or payee. Even Patreon has been going down the tubes in this regard. I still fondly remember the original flattr. Couldn’t someone, somewhere, please reinvent that.

 #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241004-W-AY6808* On foot* 41.886121, 12.444012* 4 October 2024* 420.9 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapAfter recent storms there were a few trees blocking my way, and I couldn’t get that close anyway.

Eat This Podcast latest episode: Crunch Time — Insects Are Not Going to Save Us

Dustin Crummett, executive director of The Insect Institute, tells me why he thinks the puffery about eating insects to save the planet is largely hot air inflating a bubble.

eatthispodcast.com/no-insect…

I find it odd that anyone who found the Gutenberg editor in WordPress “deeply frustrating “ would not switch to ClassicPress. Maybe they looked and decided it wasn’t for them; if so, I would love to know why.

I’ve long known that the sky is polarised, but today I discovered while waking along the beach that rainbows are too. I happened to tilt my head to one side and a rainbow that had been faint and short became much brighter and extended across more of the sky. Strange.

I wish there were some kind of tool that would do a diff between two audio files so I could string together all the ums and ers and I means I’ve cut out and send them to the person that others praise for being so eloquent and fluent.

• On foot* 55.169166, -6.777712* Tuesday 24 September 2024* 420.25 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap I’ve been looking for baggable rabbits, but this graticulette is mostly sea, and even this one was out of reach except at low tide, which wasn’t for about another 6 hours.

Ayjay and lots of other good people wish Word would die in a fire. Me too.

Eat This Newsletter points the finger at

• alt-protein energetics: the sums don’t add up
• breastfeeding: formula looks “less like brain damage and more like a really bad kindergarten teacher”, and
• food allergies and intolerance: the immune system loses its mind.

buttondown.com/jeremyche…

“There are also tools to show me where my online images have been used so I can invoice people who use them without permission. But it’s a pain and I wish Flickr could do that with a click of a button. It might happen.“That would be a game changer, and maybe even profitable for Flickr on a small percentage. 

Is it possible, in my wildest dreams, that the latest XKCD from Randall was inspired by a recent episode of Eat This Podcast?

xkcd.com/2982/

www.eatthispodcast.com/water/

Twenty years ago today, I was impressed with WordPress, the new kid on my block. www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/gett…

It is still pretty impressive, if it gives you what you want.