One of the nice things about following people online is that sometimes they give you an entirely new reason to follow them. So it was with Fractal Kitty. I came for strangely wonderful crochet and then discovered her journaling habits and processes, which made me think about mine.

A couple of days ago I had a very frustrating experience trying to export my Notes and Highlights from a book I had been reading in Apple’s Books. Long story short, it was difficult, they were in a weird random order, and some were missing. A disaster. This matters a lot to me, because I don’t like...

Some weeks ago I developed the notion to take up crochet. I’m honestly not too sure why. I knitted once, long ago, a very long scarf a while before Tom Baker made them fashionable, but knitting seemed a bit too much of a statement and two long needles too much to carry around casually. So, crochet. I did nothing about this notion until three weeks ago, when I mentioned it to a friend with whom I regularly drink coffee.

She said “I’ve been thinking the exact same thing”.

So we agreed to start and, to hold one another to it, to meet the following week chrochet in hand.

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.

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.