Jeremy Cherfas

#Hearsay19

Frankly, if I wanted to read a detailed report on the work you did in the past week, I’d become your boss.Via Phil GyfordIts bad enough feeling bad about monthly round-ups. I’m not going to foist weeknotes on myself or anyone else. But this is a good reminder.

in 2019 the web is less about documents and more for restaurantsThis, from one who knows.

Just confirmed that my little script for posting podcasts I’ve listened to from Overcast to WithKnown fails when there is more than one episode of the same show in the queue. Pinning that down is going to be … tricky.

I have not exactly solved the problem, but I can say that posting a bookmark from Omnibear, using the Firefox extension, does work. That is, the description is received and used by Known.

@AgroBioDiverse So true. Feeds make it so much easier for people to keep up with websites of interest. Case in point: one of my favourite backgarden plant breeders sprang back to life after a gap of 8 years, and I was immediately informed. daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com

So glad to see this site spring back to life, and this post is a great example of how anecdote can illuminate data.

A reminder of how things used to be in a fairly functional democracy.

“States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states.”

As a non-gamer, I had no idea that this was even a thing. And some of these games are almost tempting. Found via Craig Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter.

Rachel Laudan is promising a personal look into some of the history of the organic farming movement in England. Looking forward to the rest of her series.