It is always such a treat when an online friend shares something and it turns out really well. So it was last week, when Artemisia Vulgaris offered up a simple-to-the-point-of-spare recipe for chickpeas and onions that, she said, “probably has changed very little since prehistory. This version is from the island of Sifnos, and was taught to my mother by my great aunt, who was from there.”

I love chickpeas, so of course I tried it.

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Yesterday’s little accessability adventure unsurprisingly opened a whole ‘nother can of worms. As I was showing off my work in Front End Study Hall and learning how to check on dark mode easily in a browser, it became painfully obvious, to those who prefer dark mode, that this site doesn’t do dark mode. At all.

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My CDO let me down recently, as I discovered that I had given my annual reviews at least three different kinds of title, and as I had also chosen to not give them their own tag, distinct from Monthlies, it was a bit of a pain finding them. As it is, four I still have not found, but I have another whole year to do that. If, indeed, they exist. And as I seem to have a general outline format, I shall continue to use that.

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Having whined recently about listening to music and finding music I want to listen to I resolved, casually, to do something about that. A couple of days ago, I took a look at Bandcamp to see what they thought I might like, based on what I have liked. The first thing they sent me to was OK, but not r...

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I very much enjoyed Tracy Durnell's long post about listening without a streaming subscription, part of a series on wanting, or perhaps needing, less. It mirrors, at least partially, my own experiences of music in the past few years; having first reduced friction I now find that, in order to be more intentional, I need to reduce friction all over again

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