Jeremy Cherfas

”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.https://eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg

• On foot* 41.8867, 12.4664* 9 February 2026* 428.77 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapHow very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, Bramante’s Tempietto. I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.

This IndieWeb-first WordPress theme is an interesting development from Khürt Williams. Might have to give it a spin to see how well it does with ClassicPress. I don’t actually need to convert another site, but I also could, I think, without losing much. Depends on how it does images.

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A photo post with a paragraph of description syzygy

Let’s try editing this and see whether anything changes

I really do like WithKnown as one of the most competent IndieWeb-ready CMS around, but lawks! is it a mess to tinker with. Having successfully migrated to a new host and persuaded it to use the CSS stylesheet it always used in the past, it still cannot find photos. Maybe later.

This plugin to connect a Grav website to the Fediverse sounds interesting, but given that I already have microformats and web mention display on my Grav site, I do wonder whether it will play nicely. Also, I remember being not too happy with the default presentation of my site, but that may be something I could tinker with.

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Setting up a BirdNET-Pi to eavesdrop on our feathered friends.Surveillance as it should be.

Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet

• A water sommelier walks into a spa …
• Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
• Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.

All the news that’s fit to drink at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

Those look good. Last night I made the air-fryer tofu that Alice McFlurry shared on Mastodon beige.party/@Alice/11… and it was excellent. Tofu scramble is not on my list, probably because I am not a vegan.

New Eat This Newsletter 293: Normal Service

Parmigian-Reggiano’s Hail Mary pass Gastronationalism in Italy and the Levant Gourmet undead

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

Excellent piece, seemingly counterintuitive but makes a very good case. Rome has done a lot in the past couple of years to improve the bus service, not by removing stops, but by adding “platforms” that give busses priority, and informative shelters.