A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Either I've enjoyed a step change in fitness -- avge heartrate during HIIT down from 125 to 116 -- or Apple has changed what my watch is doing. I know where my money is.
Thanks Google. Three of the top 10 search terms that brought people to my podcast site involved wheat pennies. Alas, none wanted to hear about wheat and the growth of empires. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/empire-grain/
Just finished tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter so I am going to take a nap and then read, because I can.
Shout-out to the intelligent, attractive, and discerning people of Ireland 🇮🇪 for helping put the podcast in the charts there. Brazil also gets an honourable mention 🇧🇷 for beating its previous best by quite a margin.
https://ooh.directory/
So that’s what $project was! A new blog directory from Phil Gyford. Reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire s04.
#indieweb
TIL just how easy it is to write functions in zsh to automate little chains.
Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.
Is that the standard Activity display you have? My watch is a 6SE and I do not usually see heart rate because the strap is loose and never have the map or weather.
What's missing, for me, is a solid social reader that is as easy to use as the Big Silo. I'm using one now, which gives a bit more context that a simple RSS feed and allows me to reply, I hope. A single place to interact, rather than N different places.
Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/primed-power-short-cultural-history-protein