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not the best pic (our kitchen lighting is kinda fucked rn) but my local HMart had some good looking presliced A5 miyazaki short rib, so i blowtorched it and made gyudon with a cured egg yolk, real pickled wasabi, and grunions 😋

A rice bowl topped with scored and seared wagyu beef, a cured egg yolk, pickled wasabi, and sliced green onions.

Nov 28

feeling truly #blessed to have been invited to this traditional holiday meal 😌

An assortment of vegetables, noodles, rice cakes, meat, and tofu, all splayed out on the table for a hot pot dinner.

Nov 24

finally decided to get a new gaming PC after building my last one, like… six years ago? going from an RTX 1080 to an RTX 4090 is going to feel incredible

Nov 16

Mr. Fischoeder from “Bob’s Burgers” just shouted “foods before dudes!!!” and no phrase has ever resonated with me quite so much

Nov 14

i just finished Loki and it was fun but, damn, i don’t know how anybody keeps up with all the MCU shit. absolutely the most confusingly tangled web of media ever

Nov 10

i love going to uwajimaya, but i wish they had a more central location in the portland metro, especially since it now takes me 30 minutes to get there at basically all hours of the day

Nov 9

i just noticed my rice cooker’s clock didn’t need to be reset… zojirushi is DST-aware??? why

Nov 5

so thoughtful of GitHub to schedule an outage for Friday. thank you for the early weekend!!! 💖🙌💖

Nov 3

perfection. just right.

A finished mural inspired by “Over the Garden Wall”, depicting the Pumpkin King spreading his scarf-like arms over three residents of Pottsville.

Oct 31

we’re taking advantage of the dry weather and finally painting our halloween garage door mural 🎃

A partially painted garage door mural depicting the Pumpkin King and three of his Pumpkin People, from “Over the Garden Wall”

Oct 28

it’s v pretty out there rn you guys

A tree with brightly colored leaves in a gradient from deep red to orange, from top to bottom, with a scattering of fallen leaves accumulating all around its base.

Oct 22

shoutout to the grocery store checkout person who keyed in my meyer lemon as a valencia orange so i got it for 37¢

Oct 21

i will literally never bother with orechiette ever again. doesn’t matter how quickly you start to stir or how much you stir… it’s gonna clump up. absolute garbage. F Tier pasta shape

Oct 20

docker’s desktop app continues to be one of the most frustrating pieces of software that exists. it’s absolutely wild that it can’t even reliably update itself

Oct 18

obligatory “i saw the eclipse! kinda!” post

My feet on the sidewalk showing the strange shadows cast by leaves during a solar eclipse, with crescents of light streaming onto the pavement

More crescents of light beaming through leaves as shadows are cast around them onto someone’s yard fence

Oct 14

the other night, when i was walking back to my hotel room, there was this group of three gen z 20-somethings standing outside the stadium; one of them randomly yelled a “what’s up tho???” at me as i was walking by and when i instinctively reacted with a “hi”, they all just laughed at me :(

Oct 13

just had my Apple Card declined at a brewery and, instead of getting a “Suspicious Transaction” notification, they just completely locked my card. in fact, they locked it so hard that not only did they force a reset of my card number, they forced a reset of my Apple ID password. what the fuck?

Oct 12

i strive to write code that’s readable enough not to need code comments… but when you’re dealing with time and duration, it’s really difficult to keep things straight. i’ve been working with time a lot as i work on FireHydrant’s upcoming on-call product, and something i’ve been adding a lot to my code that deals with time is visual comments. for example, take this test about requesting coverage. the intended result is visible at a glance without having to juggle eight timestamps in your head!

A code snippet showing a specification test. The scenario involves requesting on-call coverage during a one week period, with three on-call shifts being affected by that request. The first shift starts before the period but overlaps with the beginning. The second shift is right in the middle of the period. The last shift, like the first, overlaps with the end of the period. The coverage request, three shifts, and expected result of the coverage request are all laid out in a code comment that display as a timeline.

Oct 12

sweet jesus

Two messages I shared in a Slack channel. The first message reads "oh no. i just learned you can change Slack's font and this is information i should never have learned" and then links to a Mastodon Post from Fernando Meyer on hachyderm.io. Fernando's post reads "TIL you can change slack font with `/slackfont fontname` and now my life is improved 100%".

The second message reads "if anybody wishes to join me in hell, i'm just one `/slackfont Comic Sans MS away` with a custom 😔 emoji wearing a cowboy hat. Both of the messages are, of course, rendered in Comic Sans.

Oct 11

i feel like i’m going fucking crazy. can someone please explain to me why Vips would be increasing the file size of a WebP when saving it with 90% quality???

> File.size(webp.path) / 1e6
=> 1.222172
> Vips::Image.new_from_file(webp.path).write_to_buffer(".webp", Q: 90).bytesize / 1e6
=> 1.763958

Oct 10

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