Of course @beckybowers.bsky.social takes better pics than me.

We’re gonna get 48 mooncakes out of this batch .. and of course, extra dough is becoming bee cookies.

Finished product after being brushed with cornstarch. Nutty as heck, with hazelnut and almond flour in the dough.

Baking those kabocha and pandan-coconut mooncakes.

We’re making kobocha squash and pandan-coconut mooncakes. Tonight was the kabocha “moon.” Roasted squash, puréed with ginger, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, vanilla and sesame oil, then cooked into a paste.

Oh yeah, this is the good stuff. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Sure.

Hack the Gibson, etc

When the websocket server runs out of file handles

Oh my!

Round two on the smoker — Carolina style pork shoulder in a cane syrup / mustard / whiskey / apple cider vinegar glaze

Today we’re making a smoked bossam — pork shoulder sous vide with ginger, garlic, star anise, allspice and scallions for 18 hours, now smoking for 3 with a gochujang / ssamjang / doenjang / rice vinegar / cane syrup / whiskey glaze

So I don’t drink anymore. The real question: What am I gonna do with ~*~ gestures widely ~*~ all of this?

My life for Aiur

In case you're wondering how my evening is going, I'm using Apple Configurator to reinstall the OS on a DFU'ed Mini M4. It's gonna be one of those kinds of nights.

In Colares, Portugal, there's an Avenida Eugene Levy, and I was devastated to find out it was not named for the comedian.

It finally happened, I got definitively lapped by current technology in an unambiguous fashion. I bought an SDHC EX card for my Switch. I believed it to be 512 megabytes, a reasonable size for a piece of flash memory — and a pretty good price! Reader, it was 512 gigabytes.

Bumped bellies with Newt Gingrich when I darted into the L Street elevator at the WaPo right when the door opened.

I have discovered the great joys of Eroski and I will sing their extremely Basque praises.

Barbecuing in Bizkaia (chuletas and chicken)

New badge unlocked; made vegetable soup in a hotel room kitchen.

Just vibe-coded a feature and pushed it to production (on a personal project!) from a Deutche Bahn train outside the Fulda Gap. Sometimes, you gotta push it to the limit.

Cloudflare outage, everyone hold on to your butts. #hugops

I've been working on side projects in Cursor and Zed for the last few weeks and ... they're good. They're totally fine and maybe even good.

Gradient, 2025-05-24, Maysville WV

But what did Papa Johns do with the bitcoin though

There is a very real possibility that the pope has enjoyed rib tips and hot links from an aquarium smoker.

Formative memory for me: Working a really late night on the 2014 election with @jacobharr.is and then having to crash on the couch in his hotel room because my room got double-booked.

Gen X really got it best; this was on television and we watched it! When we were kids!!

Well, that is certainly very cool!

Fast Gourmet. Chivito.

First deploy from the Eurostar; not as bad as expected.

Yes, we are watching the game. But my people require snack mix and potato skins, so I labor.

Cool cool cool

No joke, grew up in the same town as him, JD and Timmy. They were absolutely insane players. I remember stick-thin baby brother Stephen just WRECKING high schoolers in driveway wiffleball.

The Serie A match I’m watching features a team sponsored by Cynar — it had never occurred to me that you could have an amaro-based team!

Can confirm.

I have spent many, many hours in this mall.

Unfortunately, I am now a Steel Cut Oats Person (TM).

Apple Pay, largely!

People, the weather is bad. So it’s time to make ramen. We are making seafood ramen today and a standard chicken and pork ramen tomorrow. First, we make dashi. Kombu and dried mushrooms simmer for an hour. We slice those and pickle them later!

So we made chili, and @beckybowers.bsky.social made cornbread.

There’s the (ramen) bowl.

Tonight? Chicken ramen. Started with wings and two beef ribs in a pot with celery, carrot, lemongrass, sweet onion and galangal. Now we need a tare and some soy eggs.

We just did family speed drills with a ~20 year old 1AC, so how is everyone doing

“So, how did y’all make it through the pandemic with two jobs and two kids in a small apartment?” *eye twitch* Barely, and thanks to spreadsheets.

Stir your boozy cocktails longer and with more ice than you use now — it’s why bar cocktails that are the same ingredients and proportions taste different than at your house! Also cool your glass and don’t skimp on the citrus twist.

Rebuilt our wireless network over the break. Here's the play-by-play: * I am a god. * That's funny, why aren't these devices working? * I've downloaded so many different firmwares. * I should just buy $1500 worth of Ubiquiti. * I forgot to unplug one old mesh device. * I am an idiot.

Potato millefeuille? Potato millefeuille.

LOL @beckybowers.bsky.social can make the hell out of some bear claws.