Easter Monday morning.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Easter Monday Morning
A large street sign for Piazza Garibaldi with, behind it, a statue of Garibaldi on his horse and a fiercely blue sky.
Music, story(ies)
I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge too. I picked up my guitar and looked up...
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📕 Finished reading The Regicide Report by Charles Stross ISBN: 9780356524665
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
A somewhat steampunk helmet and mask that is an early firefighter’s smoke mask. It has a domed metal top, glass panels lower down, protected by metal struts and two hoses, one for input one for output. The fittings are brass."
07.04.2026
New Episode: In Search of the Real Cheeses
Trevor Warmedahl worked in commercial cheese operations large and small in the USA for about 10 years, becoming increasingly disenchanted with their pursuit of uniformity. So he set off to learn about “other, older ways to go about the fermentation of milk and the care of dairy livestock and the making of cheese”.
Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/cheese-trek
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2026-04-06
After 10 years as a commercial cheesemaker, Trevor Warmedahl set off to learn about “other, older ways to go about the fermentation of milk and the care of dairy livestock and the making of cheese”.
📄 Automating Sending WebSub Requests from a Static Site
How I automatically send WebSub requests from a GitLab build pipeline for my static sites.
Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically).Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two.Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more.Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.
06.04.2026
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Top Albums from last.fm on 06/04/26 1, Van ...
Top Albums from last.fm on 06/04/26
1, Van Morrison, Down the Road, (15);
2, Gerry Mulligan, Lionel Hampton Presents Gerry Mulligan, (9);
3, Norah Jones, Feels Like Home, (2);
4, Tom Waits, Blue Valentine, (2);
5, Various Artists, Cardinals At The Window, (2);
How the Artemis blog works
Artemis has a blog that lists posts I have written about building the software. When I designed the blog, I decided that I wanted to publish posts about Artemis on my own website and then create a list of links to those posts on a dedicated blog page associated with Artemis.
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The joy of
Every so often I take notes of things that brought me joy. I write them in my digital notebook in the form "the joy of {thing}". This phrasing lets me encapsulate a feeling and a moment in a sentence. Sometimes I'll go on to write more, other times something like the joy of w...
📖 The Seventh Function of Language ✍
In the End was the Word
I was so taken with Civilisations that I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to indulge in an earlier novel by Laurent Binet. Doing it this way round made a lot of sense, because I do not think I would have persevered if I had not already had a taste o...
How I find links
This is my (late) contribution to the January 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “How I ___”, where contributors are invited to fill in the blank. I saw the Carnival a few days ago and, after some thinking, the idea “How I find links” came to mind.
Whenever I am on a...
🎥 Brutal Unrest - Flüssig und Geil (Live in Monheim)
The opener from our set at the Sojus7 in Monheim on 28.03.2026.
Flowers; snow
There were only one or two other patrons seated with a warm drink on this cool morning. For the first time in a few weeks, I got my favourite table. I’m not sure why it is my favourite, but it is the one I gravitated toward when the place opened.
When I looked out the windo...
05.04.2026
