Today we picked some elderflowers! We will try to make a jam and a flavored gin. Updates will follow!
Notes
What Are These?
These are indieweb notes. They are like tweets, toots… small thoughts, as they were supposed to be in 2006. As a general rule, they are shorter than the blog posts. They are kept here and automatically syndicated on my Fediverse instance when I deploy the website.
Nerdy? Yes. Unnecessary? Probably yes, too.
Today the nostalgia mode is activated — the radio started it. I’m so easily influenced by music!
It’s strange to say, but I come from an era when playlists were made on cassettes, recorded from the radio or other CDs and cassettes. I made a dozen myself for my friends, and Adam’s Song playing this morning reminded me that it was a constant in those years.
Enema of the State by Blink-182 was one of my favorite CDs in middle school. I still remember when a friend of mine lent it to me.
At that time, the other album I listened to most was All That You Can’t Leave Behind by U2; it was a gift from my mother’s hairdresser(!). I loved it and still do. Maybe it was with that album that I started learning the concepts of “melody” and “arrangement”.
Well, I know what to listen to today.
Quite upset because the only way I could find to scrobble listens from iOS to ListenBrainz was to buy a third-party app (Marvis Pro - €10) and then scrobbling to… Last.fm!
Then, using a Python tool, I synced the listens to the ListenBrainz account. It runs on crontab on my Raspberry.
Darn it, Apple. Why make things so complicated?
Lately, I’ve been working a lot outside. We’ve built a pergola, covered a concrete cylinder used as a well with stones and old bricks… and I’ve listened to a lot of music. Metal music. Specifically, post-metal music.
The latest Neurosis album made me (re?)discover a playlist that contains some gems. I hardly appreciate some of them, but definitely have others on loop.
Jesu is one of my favorite discoveries, and Boris were quite a surprise too!
It’s particularly juxtaposing to listen to this kind of music in earphones while birds are chirping a few meters from you, in the shadows of linden trees on these beautiful spring days… but maybe they’d appreciate it. My girlfriend does not, though. For sure.
GoToSocial is great, but until the capability of deleting old statuses goes online, I live in constant tension 😶
Today the disk space on my VPS ran out, and I almost didn’t know what I could clean up. Fingers crossed for the next releases.
I just discovered Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, a collection of stories set in… space?! By Calvino?! I have to read it!
But I’m already tired if I think about the effort to look for it in local thrift markets.
Ok, this is my very first post note written entirely from my phone.
I’ll make another, longer, one to explain the whole setup — which I don’t know if saying I’m proud of.
It has a huge vantage, which for me is the most important: it is entirely self-hosted. Only devices and machines at my place.
I’m experimenting with POSSE and so you can read this both in my blog and my fediverse account.
I self-built a mechanism for my setup so it can get very complex to keep everything “clean”… we’ll see!
This is a test, the first indieweb note on the blog.