Photo Mechanic going end of life on the current version is a major downer. They do, to their credit, offer a one-off fee and a subscription option, but $150 a year for the standard option, which does not search across multiple folders, is a bit steep for me. What do people use?
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Took the plunge and installed first Docker ...
Took the plunge and installed first Docker and then Uptime-Kuma on my resuscitated Pi, and I am both impressed and happy. Tomorrow I will think about how to notify myself if there is a problem. For now, touch wood, no need.
#IndieWeb
🔗 Likes - FeedCity
FeedCity now supports “likes”. Including sending webmentions to supporting sites.
You can now “like” any post within FeedCity.
Resonance
I have been listening to a podcast interview between Ezra Klein and Brian Eno. In it, Eno referenced the concept of the “premature sheen.” I stopped what I was doing, paused the podcast, and started to think about what those words meant.
I wanted to learn more about the conc...
Routines
Over the last few weeks I have been working on rebuilding my morning routine.
I used to be regimented in my morning routine – everything scheduled down to the minute. I then ebbed the opposite way: my routines became unstructured, my mind every morning exerting itself to rem...
Snow
The snow looks like drops of moonlight I thought to myself as the cool light from the street lamps illuminated the falling snow. It’s beautiful. I have never seen anything like it.
Earlier this week I saw light rain fall that looked almost like it was snow – the light reflec...
Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning:Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those ser...
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Checked into Trattoria Ai Cacciatori
Untitled
📕 Finished reading Art & Fear by David Bayles, Ted Orland ISBN: 9780961454739
I suddenly remembered bluesky exists. oops. get hyped for the zine I organized (that's an order!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Latest episode: A Fresh Look at Domestication
A new book turns the current story of the invention of agriculture on its head. It wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Robert Spengler says the traits of domestication are simply a response to changes in the environment, changes humans promoted , but with no idea of being able to select better crops or livestock. Domestication just happened.
🗓️ The Level Up
The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.
Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!
- FRENEMIES
- RUMSPRINGA (IG: @RumspringaImprov)
- CHIT CHAT (IG: @ChitChatImprov)
I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!
Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)
Saturday November 15th, 2025 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60023/
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• Jeremy Cherfas
And that was fine and dandy, except ...
And that was fine and dandy, except for re-using the old 8GHB card, which didn’t let me do anything else. Finding it hard to believe that a 32GB card was only €13, but it was, and so here I am again, starting from scratch.
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• Jeremy Cherfas
After two days of futility, trying to ...
After two days of futility, trying to upgrade my Pi OS in place, I finally bit the bullet and decided to start with a fresh image of Trixie, the latest. I didn't have that many customisations and in the end I think reconstructing those will be the saner option.
Monet
On the ground floor of the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris – a long building by the river banks of the Seine, and at the start of the Jardin des Tuileries – there is an exhibit of eight Monet paintings. The museum website introduces the paintings like so:
Offered to the French ...
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-something-i-wanted-to-see-botulism-in-infant-formula/
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
π Happy ordinal pi day! (314th day of the year)No, it should not be the US-centric March 14th, which most of the world writes as 14/3 or 14-3.Science and mathematics are international, without borders, not specific to any one country or culture. As scientists and mathematicia...
What’s in my inventory?
Wherever I go, I usually bring my backpack. In it, I always keep a few things. First, I try to always bring a book with me. I usually pack a book to read before I leave the house, for the book I am reading is either at my bedside or next to my chair. Right now, I am reading t...
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Checked into Taverna dei Quaranta
I’m going to study art history
Over the last few months, I have been taking a part-time online course with the V&A focused on the history of art. The course has taken me through eras from Classical art and sculpture all the way to Impressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. With every lecture, I feel like m...