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Every picture tells a story, eh?
Monthly report: May 2026
There is not a lot of external evidence for what has been a very busy month one way and another, but I know.
Highlights of the month:
Garden on the terrace growing fit to bust
Visit to a fabulous paeony nursery; mine still blind after all these years
Tried an audio clip ag...
Guerilla gardening.
I tried this when we first got here, and the forces of evil wiped it out pretty quickly. Maybe times have changed. Maybe this time beauty will prevail.
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• Jeremy Cherfas
I embarked on trying to update a ...
I embarked on trying to update a web mentions plugin for my other site, which uses the Grav CMS. I fear that the work may be beyond me, even with the help of an LLM, but we shall see. So I want to follow the Posse of Webmention Scratch-Builders even though I have little to contribute.
#IndieWeb
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• Jeremy Cherfas
I do have vague recollections of caffeine ...
I do have vague recollections of caffeine being a sleep blocker rather than an arousal mechanism of some sort, and I have to say I have never personally experienced a coffee buzz nor coffee induced insomnia.
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Guerilla Gardening.
Last time I tried this the forces of evil prevailed quite quickly. Maybe this time will be better, maybe times have changed.
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 4
The fourth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 4, I chat with Marisabel, the author of Konfetti Explorations. We talk about, among other things, websites as gardens, sharing art on one's personal website, and seasons of making our websites. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
🎬 BLOOD INCANTATION - All Gates Open: In Search of Absolute Elsewhere
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/blood-incantation-all-gates-open-in-search/
They showed this at the local cinema, the Atelier. I always enjoy a good studio documentation - especially one of such an interesting band and one that's as well done as this one. And I'm very glad no one fell off that roof, WTF!?
👍 Recommended!
Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.
🎬 Burn After Reading
I wanted a Coen movie, I got a Coen movie. Absolutely hilarious. And another fantastic cast. They were all a delight to watch, but I probably liked John Malkovich's performance the most. Also loved the idea with the CIA guy reporting those summaries of what had happened. Clever and funny.
👍 Recommended!
Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.
New episode: More Sustainable School Meals
Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches (universally free) to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction.
"Most [pupils] hadn’t noticed the shift. Some of them actually noticed that the food was tastier. And some of them noticed that there was more vegetarian food."
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2026-06-01
Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction.
Distinguishing user and system content
When I was designing the inline message to indicate a link in a user’s Artemis reader has been flagged as malicious, I intentionally designed the system message and state to be distinguished from the user-set author name.
Here is what the final design looked like:
The Artemi...
the spider noir show having like 9/10 stars is so ridiculous. it's literally not even good
Flagging suspicious websites in Artemis
Artemis now has a feature to flag websites that you have subscribed to as suspicious. This feature appears in two places:
In the “Report spam or domain takeover: Report website as suspicious” link that appears on the page where you edit an author you are following, and;On the...
JUnited 2026
In recent weeks, I have been talking with a lot of people about personal websites. In so many of my discussions, I mention that one of the reasons I love coming back to my personal website is the community around the indie web: people all over the world sharing what interests...
Creative spaces
In her love letter to creative spaces, Britt appreciates “anywhere that is welcoming to the big table full of slightly chaotic artists who might make a mess of their carpet from time to time.” Reading through the article brought to mind memories of a table in my school that f...
Waiting; writing
I love to write while I am walking around in the world. I keep a digital notebook in which I write down what I observe: sights, sounds, scents; emotions, hopes, dreams. The smile I see as two friends embrace each other in a hug as the person who has been waiting patiently at ...
Home
I remember I was on a trip a few years ago to a place I had wanted to visit for years. Toward the end of the trip, I said to someone that I “missed the poetry” of home. I had come all this way to a place I had dreamed of, had the best of times, and heard the most wonderful of...
Milk chews
Since I am thinking about delicious Scottish treats this evening, I thought this would be an apt time to write about another of my favourite Scottish sweets: milk chews.
A packet of milk chews. The left side of the tube of milk chews has a blue background with the label "Milk...
The caramel log
I have been a long-time lover of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, made in Uddingston (near Glasgow), Scotland. Made with alternating thin layers of caramel and wafer and chocolate, Caramel Wafers are among my favourite biscuits. But today I learned of a Tunnocks product I had not yet...