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Jeremy Cherfas

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.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-251-relevant/

Jeremy Cherfas

Is it possible, in my wildest dreams, that the latest XKCD from Randall was inspired by a recent episode of Eat This Podcast?

https://xkcd.com/2982/

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/water/

Jeremy Cherfas

Twenty years ago today, I was impressed with WordPress, the new kid on my block. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/getting-to-grips-with-wordpress

It is still pretty impressive, if it gives you what you want.

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-22

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240816-W-AY68OD

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right a black Raleigh steel road bike leaned up against a white micro-rental car. The actual Rabbit is somewhere between the biccle and an apartment block in the background.

* On bicycle
* 41.861454, 12.464238
* Thursday 22 August, 2024
* 418.77 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Not 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.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-19

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240816-W-AYB8OD

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right a view down a leaf-covered slope to a road. lined with plane trees and umbrella pines. Two groups of people are walking beside the road. In the foreground are shrubs, including small Ailanthus bushes.

* On foot
* 41.88934, 12.46280 approx
* Friday 16 August, 2024
* N/A ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Bagged 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.

Jeremy Cherfas

Rain at last, and it smells … like victory.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-16

Audio cleanup

1 min read

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

Seven years ago I wrote a generally depressing piece about “science communication” and how little it seems to achieve. Someone please tell me how things have changed in the interim.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scicomm-what-is-it-good-for

Jeremy Cherfas

Maybe everybody who needs to has already seen this sound advice for Patreon — and Ernie is not the only one — but I still think it bears sharing more widely.

https://tedium.co/2024/08/13/patreon-apple-platform-risks/