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!

Possibly unpopular opinion: Martinis do not taste very good.

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).

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.

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:

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So it has come to this.

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.

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

Carrot cake, cut through

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.

Not a good week. https://xkcd.com/2293/

Hey everyone! I made roasted potatoes that were actually crispy!

Easter brunch with creme egg donut from local fancy donut shop :)

It continues

If you've read my previous articles on the IndieWeb, you might be forgiven for thinking that its members are, by and large, loners who keep to themselves.

Consider the concept of a "like", for example. On a site like Twitter, a like is an action you perform against another person's content; you click the heart icon next to someone's tweet, and the like counter for that tweet goes up. It's an implicit connection between two people - the one who did the liking and the one who received it.

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It begins

And here is a picture of my cat in a box. You are welcome. @FyreByrde

Cats and boxes, amirite?