Jeremy Cherfas

For some reason, we both woke at our normal time and then slept on for another 90 minutes. TGIS

Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

Fun and instructive.

There is a tide ... which ... delivers anchovies. I was so happy to learn that Peter Rukavina had both taken the plunge on anchovies and shared a blog post about them for me to explore. I’m also stealing his description: a “salty fishy kapow-offering friend,” although, hold the fishy.

Anchovies: a work of art in a can

Latest episode: the divisive anchovy.

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

I knew most of this history, as a relatively long-time user of Known, and I contribute to the project via Open Collective. A new version of Known would be even better than a functional exporter, but I would settle for that if I have to.

Revisiting Known

Checked into Ai Cocci

Later: And wishing I hadn’t. Very poor food, over-eager service, surrounded by tourists who must be the ones responsible for theis being, apparently, No 7 out of 12000 Rome restaurants.

In the latest Eat This Newsletter

- Nutrition experts who feed off big food
- The tomato in India
- Tainted turmeric
- Cloves, with a hitch
- 陈麻婆豆腐: is the story true?

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Replied to a post on ruk.ca :

Yet another plea for proper micropayments that don't gouge payer or payee. Even Patreon has been going down the tubes in this regard. I still fondly remember the original flattr. Couldn't someone, somewhere, please reinvent that.