Am I the only one bothered by the term "black IPA"? Like, y'all know what the "P" stands for, right?
Archives for 2020/05 (Lifestream)
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May 28, 2020, 9:42 PM -04:00 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!
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May 26, 2020, 9:23 PM -04:00 Possibly unpopular opinion: Martinis do not taste very good.
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May 24, 2020, 2:52 PM -04:00 A piece of gingerbread, slightly lopsided. Still delicious. I used Anna Olsen's recipe.
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May 15, 2020, 9:45 PM -04:00 Pot of misir wat, Ethiopian spiced lentils. Delicious.
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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 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 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.
I'm no historian, but it seems obvious that wikis were created mostly in order to make certain kinds of websites easier to build and maintain. In the days when "webmaster" was an actual job title and when traditional websites were maintained by an elite group of technical people, using arcane languages like HTML, wiki powered websites: