Jeremy Cherfas

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.

A lot of Mark Nottingham’s post about improving feeds is plumbing and protocols I scarcely understand. The thing that disrupts my feed reading most is feeds that resend the latest 20 posts each time there’s something new. Might be related to doubled images. Whatever, I dislike it a lot.

• On bicycle* 41.861454, 12.464238* Thursday 22 August, 2024* 418.77 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapNot exactly exploring. Just happened to notice this Rabbit right by my usual route for a long bicycle ride, so I had to bag it on the way home.

• On foot* 41.88934, 12.46280 approx* Friday 16 August, 2024* N/A ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapBagged this on Friday, and it had been so long since the previous Rabbit I clear forgot to take the screenshot that enables me to post a day later. Or three days later.

Rain at last, and it smells … like victory.

Editing audio, you accumulate so much cruft it is amazing. Out-takes, duplicates, alternative mixes etc etc. You pretend you might come back to them. But you don’t. Eventually you decide to save only the final mix and the sound files it needs, and you spend about 90 minutes doing every podcast from 2014, and you reduce the size of that archive from 21.3GB to 9.1GB and that is a good thing.2015 can wait.