was out in my denim jacket w the patches and my debian/lesbian pun tshirt and a lady upon seeing me aggressively took her daughters hand and shielded her from me. forgot homophobia existed for a minute so i was like what's that about
Night shift
Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mod...
03.05.2026
Using greyscale
Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't remembe...
Quotes from Tufte’s course
I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that s...
New episode: Mysterious Collards in Morocco
Collard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South, though they are also eaten in parts of Europe and in East Africa.
And, as it happens, in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that.
Where did those collards come from? Who brought them? When? And what do they tell us about collards in the US?
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2026-05-04
Collard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South. They are also valued in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that.
That raises so many questions.
"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...
4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Top Albums from last.fm on 03/05/26 1, Linda ...
Top Albums from last.fm on 03/05/26
1, Linda Ronstadt, Canciones de mi Padre, (13);
2, Le Trio Joubran, Majâz, (11);
02.05.2026
01.05.2026
Seasons
My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which there is a new perspective to see ever...
Oh boy! The bee-eaters are back.
Why should I care?
Today was a really nice and sunny day, so I went out with some friends from uni. We went to a Café (no shops open on International Workers' Day) and decided to go to the museum next to it because museums are free with our student ticket thing.
The main exhibit in the museum...
Day; night
The day holds onto the light for as long as it can. The warm glow of the horizon reminds me of all of the bright adventures of the day, and makes me wonder “what will I do tomorrow?”. I can see the first star, which means that night will soon be here; the time for rest, processing, and preparing to imagine tomorrow. (Written a few days ago, and published on a rainy evening where the memories of the sunset on a clear evening warm my heart.)
RE: https://mastodon.art/@minnart/116330637381883327
The octopuses are gorgeous.
My words, not my content
Every so often I think about the word “content.” It’s not my favourite word. Content feels relatively flat compared to the things to which it can refer.
I have been meaning to write about my preference for something else for a while: I prefer to say “my words” or “my stories...
Walking
I don’t think I will need my jacket. The weather is warm enough that I can go outside without one. It always feels both special and jarring on the first days of the year when the world is so warm that you can go out without a jacket – the anticipation for the warmth clashes w...
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I recently experimented with writing a new 401 page for the IndieWeb wiki to replace the default nginx page we have. My experiment is not live yet, but I wanted to document a few of the decisions I made while writing the page.
First, I chose the title “You ne...