A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter, concocted from bits and pieces of edible material found here and there. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-190-inundated-3184/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.
Improvements over at searchmysite.net -- where searches can now be converted to feeds and, thus, subscribed to, definitely merit further investigation. https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/lots-of-new-web-feed-rss-and-atom-related-functionality/
I've never really understood why Byword has not so far embraced micropub, which would enable posting to all sorts of different recipient systems. I never used it to post to WordPress because I has MarsEdit for that, but I would surely use it to post here.
The Squeeze smelled something odd as we got on the plane. Minutes later, the captain agreed and called an engineer with a thick binder to confirm. Something was well dodgy, so here we are languishing back in the terminal and waiting for a new plane. The Romance of Travel.™️
Python dabblers: how do you avoid the dreaded "module not found" errors, when you know you installed the modules? I tried to get into virtual environments, but it seems like overkill. One nice all-encompassing install would do it for me, but it may be too late. Help!
Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.
When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/
With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi
In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.
Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/
Two explainers on tomato colour at
https://frogsleapfarm.blogspot.com/2014/04/genetic-control-of-fruit-color-in.html and
http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/color.html
I cannot recall anything but red tomatoes from my youth. Yellow was dangerously exotic maybe 30 years ago. All that diversity, hiding out of plain sight!
Jeremy Cherfas, Oct 21 2022 on stream.jeremycherfas.net