@thomasfuchs It is still not as good as the homemade gluten dough we used to do but it is the best of all the recipes we've tried. We've also had non-GF friends just think it was a normal pizza. I keep meaning to write a blog post about it. It came from a pizza recipe book although that recipe involved buying 5 different flours. We've found that Freee's GF flour does a good job of replacing all those and is cheaper (and simpler).
I get a little bit sad when people refer to a wallpaper that doesn't save their screen as a "screensaver". I get a little bit sad when people refer to any bit of audio/video put on a website as a "podcast" rather than that being the word for a series released with a feed. I get a little bit sad when people say they "wrote a blog" to refer to an individual post on a blog in a way they wouldn't say "I published a newspaper" if they wrote one article in a newspaper.
I like that this Mastodon server isn't too big, that I know who the admins/moderators are, and that I can check the finances openly. And it isn't selling our data to fund it; it is funded by 227 of us. Thanks to all those who've chipped in.
My dad had a bunch of slides in his stuff. Some of them seem to be 120 medium format (I think). I've been trying to work out cheap ways to digitise them that doesn't have a risk from sending them away. I tried a flatbed scanner with an illuminated corner box on top but it lost the colour for some reason. So I'm just trying taking pictures with a camera.
(For the reply guys, I don't need advice on creating a throwaway BBC account. I also know that things like Instagram etc do this already. Uggh to them too. I'm complaining about the BBC copying the pattern.)
The Luvly electric car definitely does a few of the things I've been wanting for years including: * smaller/lighter which means less energy use, reduces road space, and would likely reduce tyre pollution * removable battery which makes it possible for people like me to be able to charge at home and can give more range. https://www.luvly.se/feature/simple
Easily removable standardised batteries across electric vehicles would be a very quick win to convert petrol station business models. They could charge batteries offline and then, at a "petrol" station, you'd just have to switch over your battery to a fully charged one. It'd save people sitting waiting to charge on long trips. And the "petrol stations" could charge them using cheaper/greener times on the grid.
Anyway none of this will happen. It doesn't matter about technical difficulties of doing the switch over (that is solvable). The main issue would be car manufacturers because they behave like computer manufacturers and want/need to make their systems incompatible as much as they can get away with.
In early 2020 I was drafting a blog post about projects to crowd-source information about street trees. I was annoyed that so many projects (including ones with "open" in their names) created closed silos of data from the free contributions of volunteers. I was trying to come up with a simple tool to make it easy for normal people to update trees in OpenStreetMap instead. Then the pandemic happened. Anyway, more than three years on, I've finally written it up https://open-innovations.org/blog/2023-05-23-where-are-all-the-trees
Train stations in the UK each have 3 letter codes. For instance Kings Cross is KGX and Leeds is LDS. What's the best journey you can do in 3 letter codes?
HIP ➡️ HOP (Highams Park to Hope, Derbyshire) SKI ➡️ SEA (Skipton to Seaham) BUY ➡️ HAT (Burley Park to Hatfield) EGG ➡️ HEN (Eggesford to Hendon) TIP ➡️ TOP (Tipton to Topsham) TOO ➡️ HOT (Tooting to Henley-on-Thames) TAT ➡️ TOO (Tattenham Corner to Tooting)
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