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See how I enhanced my Hugo blogging workflow with Termux on Android: run a Hugo server locally, manage Git with Termux instead of relying on a separate Git client app (like PuppyGit or GitSync), resolve a fatal Hugo image processing error causing server to fail, learn to set up everything from scratch. I also share my portable computing setup.

I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemented a directive to reduce single-use plastics, specifically to protect the environment.

But in front of use were our two small mountains. How come?

Ah, she told me, in Italy, many packages of plastic plates etc. are labelled saying they can be re-used. Problem solved.

I wonder how many are actually washed and re-used, or even re-used dirty. And do other EU countries crawl through the same loophole?

Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet

* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.

All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/

Pass step count goals, mapping trails with GPX, fixing expired mac profiles, and creating a simple CSS carousel for multiple photo posts.

Those look good. Last night I made the air-fryer tofu that Alice McFlurry shared on Mastodon https://beige.party/@Alice/115941847048511529 and it was excellent. Tofu scramble is not on my list, probably because I am not a vegan.

Today I finished listening to The Rose Field by Philip Pullman read by Michael Sheen. This was the third book in The Book of Dust series.

I absolutely loved this is was so emotional and the narration was so moving at times I cried and other times I laughed out loud.

At the end of the audio book there was an interview with Philip Pullman and Michael Sheen, in that interview they discussed the ideas and themes of the book and commented upon how the current global politics were reflected in the story.

Towards the end Philip Pullman said:

Those who don’t understand or enjoy stories and art are the ones we have to look out for.

I truly recommend The Book of Dust trilogy and I really didn't want it to end.

All fixed now. Thanks to DonTheMaster on Mastodon, who suggested changing my local DNS to 9.9.9.9 I have been trying to migrate some sites to a new host, with all the attendant patience-trying delays while things like DNS propagate. So an email telling me that a spammer ha...

A piece in Anthropocene magazine pointed me to an interesting study just published at PNAS: Aging populations threaten conservation goals of zoos. It is behind a paywall, so I am reliant on the abstract and what I read at Anthropocene, although that doesn’t change my conclus...

Spent a more-or-less instructive week slowly moving this site over to its new home hosted at Hetzner. Not there yet, unless you’re reading this at some point in the future, but with a lot of help — and a lot of misdirection too — from ChatGPT we are getting closer. Some hard lessons to learn, which I will address in a more detailed write up, and despite a deluge of explanations, there are still many things about which my understanding is very shaky. Nevertheless, I am glad to be moving forward.

Zachary kindly invited me to answer a few questions about hosting the IndieWeb Carnival. Running for three years now, the IndieWeb Carnival has been the source of endless inspiration for me, sparking both long periods of thinking as well as writing blog posts. Even when I hav...

At EdinburghJS this week, Colin mentioned the idea of “kind software.” This got me thinking. What would make software kind? As I write, I notice the word “kind” reminds me of the term “user friendly,” which has associations with software being simple to use in the context of ...

This has been a busy week! Earlier in the week, I attended my first EdinburghJS Meetup, at which I met many wonderful people. As always, I am a bit nervous before going to events. What if I can’t find the location? What will I say? Those fears usually leave my system after a...

Another Homebrew Website Club took place yesterday.

The next HWC DUS will be on Feb. 19^th.