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"IPA" stands for "India Pale Ale"

Am I the only one bothered by the term "black IPA"? Like, y'all know what the "P" stands for, right?

TIL from @englishhistpod that Wales and Welsh both come from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "foreigner", which is ironic given that the Welsh were the native Britons and the Anglo-Saxons were the invaders.  Also: the wall in Cornwall and the wal in walnut mean "foreign" as well!

I didn't know RumChata was a thing, but I want some.

Possibly unpopular opinion: Martinis do not taste very good.

You don't know me, but I have that exact same vermouth and it's delicious!  You made a Boulevardier, right?

A piece of gingerbread, slightly lopsided. Still delicious. I used Anna Olsen's recipe.

Pot of misir wat, Ethiopian spiced lentils. Delicious.

Annoying how most recipes calling for condensed milk call for a 14 oz can, while the cans in Canada appear to be 300 ml (10 oz).

I don't know if I'd call it my favourite, but I use @getpelican, @NetlifyCMS and @CircleCI.  Mostly because I'm semi-familiar with Python and Jinja2, CircleCI was faster than TravisCI, and Netlify is just easy.

Cannoli pound cake. Really just an excuse to use leftover ricotta. Smells amazing.

The pandemic will be over when I can eat in a crowded restaurant again.

I wonder about combining static site generators and photo galleries.  I know it's a thing, and yet it feels a bit off, especially when you have 10GB of photos.

I attended my first IndieWebCamp session last week, on the subject of "gardens and streams", otherwise known as wikis and blogs. Given the current global situation, the entire thing was remote; I participated via Zoom. It was fun! I'm glad I got to meet everyone.

Wikis, and how they differ from blogs, is a topic that interests me. You may not know it, but my domain sports a wiki, powered by MoinMoin. I mostly use it to store technical notes and recipes.

(Edited 2024/12/25: I no longer use MoinMoin, opting instead for an org-roam based digital garden, but the concepts are the same)

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So it has come to this.

I maintain website/blog at https://desmondrivet.com It's a statically generated site using @getpelican, hosted on @NetlifyCMS.  Updated semi-regularly and cross-posted to Twitter.

Jan-Lukas Else recently asked the Hacker News community why most of them don't have blogs, and published his thoughts on their answers to his own blog. The conversation was interesting and got me thinking about my own motivations for maintaining this site.

The first thing that stands out for me in the responses is the number of people who said that they quit blogging because they didn't have any readers. It was more than I expected. I don't think I fully realized how important readership was to some people in the technical community, probably because I think can safely say that it's not of great importance to me.

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Did you know that the word "Westmount" comes from the Greek meaning "land of houses that Desmond will never own"? :P

It ends. Finally.

Well, this is quite embarrassing.  Thank you for the information! Actually, my blog entries on my feed page did have p-names but I think I accidentally made them part of the e-content, and I suspect that's why they were not showing up. And, yes, my published date was embedded in my h-card for silly reasons that I won't get into. Anyway, I think (hope) I've fixed both issues if you want to try again.

I love how comiccon isn't cancelled, it's just "postponed" until next year.

Excellent :-) I seem to recall enjoying Jen Kirkman and Tig Nataro as well