One of the few things I dislike about living at the top of a hill is being far from water. The most enjoyable aspects of my brief stay in Utrecht a couple of years ago was walking along the small and large waterways. Some of the houseboats are just so beautiful to look at. To live in, who knows?
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
The madness of some markets.
These were in the fridge an extra 20 minutes, so there’s a learning right there.
Search Engine Etiquette: Never, Ever Ask for a Backlink
In a nutshell …Once Google set the plot point, backlinks became hard to ignore. And marketers looking to get an edge started using a variety of tactics to gain a coveted spot on the front page that didn’t involve actually creating good content that people want to read.
Tim Bray, reflecting on the numbers for his Bye Amazon post.But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. For every discipline-with-depth that I care about (software/Internet, politics, energy economics, physics), if you want to find out what’s happening and you want to find out from first-person practitioners, you end up reading a blog.Was true, is true, will be true.
This Plumeria blossom has been struggling for days to open. It is still quite cold. But I have never had flowers this early nor on a tree as bare.
Did a bit of domestic baking today.
2020-05-09
I’m not saying I agree with absolutely everything in these two articles, but The Economist has an Editorial and a Briefing on what it calls “the global food supply chain” and “the world’s food system”. They make for interesting reading. Spoiler: The Economist doesn’t think it’s broken.
The Technium
I know everybody and her mother have already linked this and bookmarked it, but I want it here for myself, because there is some good stuff in this list.