Pot of misir wat, Ethiopian spiced lentils. Delicious.
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May 15, 2020, 9:45 PM -04:00
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May 15, 2020, 2:36 PM -04:00 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).
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May 13, 2020, 2:46 PM -04:00 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.
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Ali Spittel (@ASpittel) on X
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May 12, 2020, 7:02 AM -04:00 Venkatesh RaoA Text Renaissance
There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam, a hypertext publishing platform best understood as a medium for composing conspiracy theories and extended universes.Substack, a careful and thorough ground-up neoclassical reconstruction of the age-old email newsletter.Static websites, built out of frameworks like Jekyll or Gatsby (full disclosure: a consulting client).And finally, Threaded Twitter, a user-pioneered hack-tur... -
May 10, 2020, 5:45 PM -04:00 Cannoli pound cake. Really just an excuse to use leftover ricotta. Smells amazing.
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May 9, 2020, 8:06 PM -04:00 The pandemic will be over when I can eat in a crowded restaurant again.
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May 9, 2020, 6:40 PM -04:00 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.
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May 3, 2020, 10:39 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://doubleloop.net/2020/05/03/read-feeder/
May 3, 2020, 8:31 AM -04:00Read feeder
Ton made a post recently about federated bookshelves, sparked by a post from Tom. It’s an idea that Gregor has done a good bit of thinking about from an IndieWeb perspective. Book recommendations is something I’m always interested in. At base, all it needs is a feed you can follow just of what people have been reading. I’ve set up a channel in my social reader called ‘Good Reads’, and subscribed to Ton’s list of books, as the sci-fi focus looks right up my street. If anyone else has a feed of... -
May 1, 2020, 12:07 PM -04:00 Redesign in progress
I announced on twitter a couple of days ago that I went a bit rogue on my blog. I removed all the CSS after converting it from Jekyll to Eleventy and I want a brand new design for it. The trouble is I'm not a designer. It doesn't help that I have an irrational hate for white backgrounds. I was just now looking up on Pinterest for some inspiration when I realised that I wasn't looking at "blog designs". I was looking at notebooks. When I want to think about my blog, I look at everything but we... -
May 1, 2020, 6:24 AM -04:00 On Gardens and Streams
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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Apr 29, 2020, 10:37 PM -04:00 So it has come to this.
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Apr 28, 2020, 12:52 PM -04:00 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.
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Jani Eväkallio (@jevakallio) on X
HI! Do you have a self-hosted personal website/blog? If yes drop a link in replies! 🙏 I'm also interested what are your main problems in hosting your own website? Effort? Cost? Tech? Getting engagement? -
Apr 28, 2020, 12:01 PM -04:00 Pieces of Thinking
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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Apr 27, 2020, 7:35 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/16803
Apr 25, 2020, 7:10 AM -04:00Reading
At the beginning of the year, Remy wrote about extracting Goodreads metadata so he could create his end-of-year reading list. More recently, Mark Llobrera wrote about how he created a visualisation of his reading history. In his case, he’s using JSON to store the information. This kind of JSON storage is exactly what Tom Critchlow proposes in his post, Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads: Thinking through building some kind of “web of books” I realized that we could use... -
Apr 27, 2020, 2:06 PM -04:00 
Apr 26, 2020, 1:32 PM -04:00A short post mortem, video and note links, and challenge from The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp Pop-up session
Thank you everyone! For those who attended yesterday’s The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp session, thank you for participating! I honestly only expected 4 or 5 wiki fans to show up, so I was overwhelmed with the crowd that magically appeared from across multiple countries and timezones. I’ve heard from many–both during the session and privately after–that it was a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation. (I never suspected memory palaces or my favorite 13th century Franciscan tertiary to ... -
Apr 26, 2020, 3:44 PM -04:00 Did you know that the word "Westmount" comes from the Greek meaning "land of houses that Desmond will never own"? :P
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Apr 26, 2020, 1:35 AM -04:00 It ends. Finally.
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Apr 23, 2020, 1:06 AM -04:00 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.
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Apr 22, 2020, 1:34 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/posts/why-no-blog/
Apr 19, 2020, 3:31 AM -04:00Why HN readers don’t have a blog
Yesterday, I asked the Hacker News community why they don’t have blogs, even though they have the necessary technical skills.Many Hacker News readers and contributors have the technical skills to run their own blog and post their opinions. But instead they prefer to use Twitter or other social networks. Why is this so? Is it the effort?I want to respond to some of the answers in this post:I don’t want an extremely public record of my personal opinions or thoughts today, because I know they’re... -
Apr 21, 2020, 4:42 PM -04:00 I love how comiccon isn't cancelled, it's just "postponed" until next year.
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Apr 16, 2020, 1:30 PM -04:00 Excellent :-) I seem to recall enjoying Jen Kirkman and Tig Nataro as well
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Nando | 🇵🇸 (@nandini_godara) on X
@desmondrivet I love them both and have watched all their netflix specials already! Haven't watched Oh Hello On Broadway yet though, been hesitant about that one for a while -
Apr 16, 2020, 3:59 AM -04:00 Carrot cake, cut through
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Apr 15, 2020, 5:03 PM -04:00 I'm a big fan of John Mulaney's stand-up. Mike Birbiglia is also really good.
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Nando | 🇵🇸 (@nandini_godara) on X
I'm looking for good stand-up specials to watch, please give suggestions ( not Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr please) -
Apr 14, 2020, 7:31 PM -04:00 First time making carrot cake. And first time doing a crumb coat! Most of my previous caves have been simpler ones like pound cake, with no frosting.
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Apr 13, 2020, 8:10 PM -04:00 Not a good week. https://xkcd.com/2293/
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RIP John Conway