Jeremy Cherfas

I bought a pair of “cycling" insoles for my non-cycling shoes (trainers) and on the first two rides, coming up the long hill to home seemed a lot less effort. Can that possibly be the result of the insoles? Or self-delusion? Not just a jump in fitness, I am sure.

Thanks to improved crop varieties, “From 1961 to 2015, global crop output was higher by 226 million metric tons”. Is that a lot?

Eat This Newsletter runs the numbers and is not impressed. Or might just be mistaken. You be the judge.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-264-curated/

As I continue to mull over Pixelfed, these suggestions from Matt Haughey make a lot of sense. Will they still do as after I am there? I expect so.

Brian has an interesting approach to inserting microformats from front matter that I could pretty easily emulate in Twig as I do my resign. Need to think through whether it would increase flexibility or tie things down.

Food, folklore and St Brigid

St Brigid’s Day, 1 February, traditionally marks the beginning of spring and the start of the agricultural year. There are special foods and other ritual celebrations, some of which delve in the pagan past.

Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/brigid

It is too easy to connect the dots. Sugar craving, cheap ultraprocessed calories, cheap food for enslaved sugar workers, the hidden horrors behind plenty, information deficits.

I need a pinboard and some red string.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-263-connectivity/

Nice piece from Joe Crawford summarising his history of bookmarks and current use of LinkDing on PikaPods. Me too. The one drawback I have found it that editing my tags online seems to cost me dearly. But editing the XML offline is a huge pain.

#IndieWeb

Looking for free Seville oranges for your marmalade? Or any other food to forage? The latest Eat This Newsletter has you covered, with a link to Falling Fruit, an interactive map that aspires to be “the best tool available to the contemporary forager”. And more.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-262-forage/

I enjoyed Manu's post about photography and photographers he likes, and even more his page of photographs which has a very neat script to embiggen an image with a click and then smallish it again with another click. Very cool. Worth stealing?