Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Tucked away for the winter, two frangipani making good use of a bidet.
May 2024
A birthday celebration, Beyond Tellerrand conference, Frankeninferno, and a whole bunch of random shots from Düsseldorf. (70 photos)
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251207-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8696, 12.4745
* 7 December 2025
* 427.28 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://rabbit-rabbit.quest/#mode=walkable&map=41.86963/12.47449/16)
Rabbit Quest to the rescue again to pull me out of a bit of a Sunday afternoon funk. Down in my old ‘hood, where the gasometer and other hulking relics of the old coal-powered generating stations loom over the river.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2025-12-07
Rabbit Quest to the rescue again to pull me out of a bit of a Sunday afternoon funk. Down in my old ‘hood, where the gasometer and other hulking relics of the old coal-powered generating stations loom over the river.
* On foot
* 41.8696, 12.4745
* 7 December 2025
* 427.28 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
New RSVP
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No idea what this is. Maybe some kind of gall, but it had the look and feel of hard shiny plastic.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
No idea what this is. Maybe some kind of gall, but it had the look and feel of hard shiny plastic.
The Non-Designer's Design Book
Revisiting a 90's classic for the IndieWeb book club
A new home page
I have been thinking about redesigning my website for a while. I wrote a bit about one of the design directions I explored recently. I loved doing the design part of the project, but knew there would be several hours of work to integrate the new style into my website.
Today...
Monthly report: November 2025
Slightly conflicted. The spambot in October meant I was no longer recording my various forms of travel and the need for a new battery for my Apple Watch reduced my quantifiable self to a nubbin. And now I wonder whether I really care enough to do anything about that. Probabl...
My take on this is oooh my God who cares. I wish this was a real problem but it's really not. I'd take 100 fakers gladly if it meant every disabled person actually got the support they deserve. I'd give my taxes for that fucking gladly. Same with unemployment and everything else ppl make noise about
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Machine Knittin': Some mittens
I took another (unsuccessful) run at the previously-failed neckline for the knitalong sweater this weekend. I have learned that I have much to learn about taking off ribbing with circular knitting but also I don't want to talk about it.
Instead let's talk about these!
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Eat This Podcast: A Berliner Speaks
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
New month, new episode, a chat with ...
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
https://eatthispodcast.com/berlin
Annals of Machine Transcription:
“Through the acidification of the internet, blogs long ago stopped being usable.”
I think we all know what the speaker actually said.
German speakers: I believe there is a work that sounds a lot like eckkanter, meaning a corner bar, possibly only in Berlin. But online it seems to be a kind of woodworking machine.
What is the correct word, please. #German
Edit: Answer found. Eckkneipe. Thank you fediverse.
Saturday
Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and writer, how distance varies. As I writ...
Little moments of joy
I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website!
Today,, I was...