Jeremy Cherfas

• On foot* 41.882223, 12.448771* Thursday 18 April, 2024* 424.12 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapIn the park, and well off my normal paths.

Cream crackered after spending an hour and a half trying to separate a well overgrown and neglected canna lily from its concrete trough. Very hard going, but now that I have replanted a few offsets, I am taking a well earned break.

TIL about using the Python calendar module from Terminal. What magic is this?

docs.python.org/3/library…

The cinematography on the new Ripley is drop dead gorgeous. That is all.

TIL Midnight Diner on Netflix is adapted from a manga series.

imaginair.es/@Sammael9…

Incentives are (almost) everything.

For utterly mysterious reasons my Apple Watch SE lost power from 100% 39 minutes into a three hour hike this morning. Seems fine after a full recharge, but the numbers lie.

I’m traveling myself, and you will probably be gone before I get back on Monday. We could have had a mini-HWC. Enjoy yourself.

Wait, what? You’re in Rome?

Posted my monthly update. I realise that this is a good antidote to me thinking that I have frittered my time away. I haven’t, but I need to consider the things I’ve done to provide myself with a more accurate picture.

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/mont…

I know this is a really unfashionable point of view, but I like daylight savings time. The day’s work is done and there another couple of hours of light to enjoy. I honestly don’t get why some people get so aerated about it.

My OCD is giving me grief about the different line weights in ↗ and ↘ in the latest post on my website.

No. idea what you are talking about. The h1 element is right there, wrapping the words “Why does the Labarum theme not have a header”.

It gave me no pleasure to read Brad DeLong’s recent Dealing with Global Warming Over the Next Fifty Years, in which he eviscerates several climate deniers braddelong.substack.com/p/dealing…

No, wait. It gave me a great deal of pleasure. Do yourself a favour.

Grammarphobia says it has no clue about the origins of “chumbalone"meaning an idiot, or stupid. www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2024…

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I reckon it derives from the Italian ciambellone, like a big pound cake with a hole in the middle. Can anyone confirm?

Or could it be from coglione?

I have been looking for a way to syndicate from here to Mastodon, and landed on the KnownMastodon plugin. Unfortunately, that did not work for me. I did a bit of digging and discovered that the error was in a piece of Mastodon authorisation code and that cdn has implemented a fix, but that did not seem to have made it into the code I downloaded. Further digging revealed that the fix was actually by crscheid and that even though they had created a proper pull request, that had not been merged either. I did what any sane cargo culter would do, downloaded the fix, stuck it in my site, crossed my fingers and tried again. Lo!

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Another test of syndication.