Keep Calm & ReFarm On!
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The …iPedia wars
Good interview with Jimmy Wales, in which he tells how Wikipedia strives to maintain its utility as a trusted source of truth, even as it has become deeply embroiled in the Culture Wars swirling about it. One of the key antagonists in this war is Elon Musk, wielding the recently launched Grokipedia as his primary…
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Markdown support in the RSS feed
Per this open issue posted to the Scripting-News repo, it sounds like it should be possible soon to have Markdown support in the RSS feed for this site -a feature i would very much like to leverage here, once it is truly available.
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FeedLand.org
Looks like Feedland.org is back up and running again. I was just about to file a bug report, so… NIce!
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Matt Mullenweg talk at Wordcamp Canada 2025
Matt gave a great overview of what-all is happening in the WP ecosystem.
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WikiLinks?
Looking for wiki-like functionality in a WordPress blog… I wonder if there’s a way to create them? I put the question to tech support at WordPress.com, and was advised as follows: The P2 Breathe theme enables front-end and collaborative editing, similar to a Wiki, and may suit your needs. Take a look at the theme…
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Behold the lilies of the field…
They do not weave or spin… Yet they are everywhere enlivening the aspect of our fields these days! Question : what is the botanical name of this plant?
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Blog Tech
Not that i don’t love WordPress… But i’m interested enough in this new development by “BlogFather” Dave Winer (of ScriptingNews fame) that i have decided to give his new platform a whirl -see my 1999.io blog for all the nitty-gritty.
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Presence
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” It’s been an unusual spring, weather-wise, and one of the nice surprises in that for me has been a good few days of this sort: mostly clear sky with scattered cumulus, steady moderate breeze coming out of NW,…
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Winemaking: Egg-White Fining
So: Having made ~300L of red wine that is truly excellent in all respects except clarity and mouth-feel (i.e. it is perfectly opaque, and “chewy,” almost in the mouth), i decided to take my friend ZéCarlos’ advice, and try this process of egg-white fining. Essentially, the steps folllowed were these: 1. Pump the wine from…