A podcast called Almost Plausible, where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object (such as a ceiling fan, a paperclip, or a toilet brush) and we create a movie plot based on that object.
You can find the show anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Listening now on Spotify 👍
Hooray! I hope you like it. :)
I’ve been refining this idea for about a year. I began it using a different medium, but the idea of P2025 and the reelection of dipshit spurred me to look at alternatives. I would like to get this idea out there, but I think fb has been blocking my posts, lolol.
Right now, everything is through Printful (I know, I know), but I’ll order some stuff from Sticky brand and move over to Etsy once I’ve made a few sales.
https://stickrshockr.printful.me/product/american-pride-single-kiss-cut-sticker-american-pride-flag
I have a lot more ideas to continue and expand the series. We’ll see if it gets anywhere.
My dad would be so proud. /s
So many things!
We moved to a new house a couple of years ago and I mapped out the whole property, put it into LibreCAD, designed the space, and have been planting/building it since then. I now have thousands of plants, over 1000 unique types, and a vegetable garden in our 1/3 acre lot. I’m very proud of it, but don’t really know how to best share it with the world (or if anyone cares).
I also have a web site that I’ve been building forever, lots of little programs, things like my irrigation system built from a Raspberry Pi, my homelab, all of the plants that I start from seed in the spring for the garden (thousands under grow lights with heated mats), the hydroponic system… I’m sure there’s more.
A very overdue Christmas themed drawing that I’m not finished with just yet. So here’s some fluffy tinsel I just got done with rendering!
I know it’s not much compared to everyone else’s stuff here but it’s the easiest to post since I actually have picture of it.
Made some ginger chicken after experimenting with making the chicken tender and crunchy without deep frying. Turned out very good.
That looks awesome and makes me hungry.
Ginger Chicken
Preparing
Cut some chicken up into strips a bit under 1cm (0.4in) thick and against the grain if using beast (more of a thigh guy myself).
Put chicken in bowl and wet chicken with equal parts rice vinegar and soy sauce. I used around 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon rice vinegar and 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon soy sauce for around 0.6kg (1.3lb) of chicken. Hand mix the chicken until the vinegar and soy sauce are worked in.
After around 5-7 minutes, the chicken should soak up the vinegar and soy sauce and leave little to no liquids.
Add in about 1.5 tablespoon (22.5ml) of shaoxing wine and enough corn starch to turn the liquid into a thick-ish white liquid but not enough to dry it out. It should have roughly the same consistency of an egg white. Once it’s hand mixed, put in some black pepper and sprinkle a little bit of MSG if you have any and mix it again. For pepper I put in around 1 tablespoon (15ml). For MSG, I used what I could grab with my fingers which would be like 1-2g.
After doing that, chop up a sweet onion into crescent moon shaped slices and set it aside.
Let the chicken marinate for about 30 minutes.
Prepare the sauce
Go in with the mindset of making teriyaki sauce.
Mix together:
- 5 tablespoons (60ml) of soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) of brown sugar
- Three microplaned garlic cloves (~1 tablespoon, 15ml)
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) mirin
At the end, fuck up and add 1 tablespoon (15ml) of ginger powder instead of the 1 teaspoon (5ml) you were supposed to add.
Now you have ginger sauce.
Cooking
Get large carbon steel or cast iron pan (stainless might work but I’ve never tried it since I don’t have any. Non-stick will not work) and fill it so there’s about 2mm of vegetable oil in the pan. Pre-heat at low-medium heat.
Before putting in chicken, coat the chicken in a layer of corn starch, kinda like breading it. It should feel dry and not sticky after coating.
Prepare about 1 tablespoon (15ml) of butter in a spoon (or butter knife or whatever, you’ll be quickly throwing it into the pan while cooking) and have a clean plate large enough to hold the cooked chicken ready.
Pre-heat until oil is just stating to emit thin wisps of smoke then turn heat to medium high the dump chicken in the pan and keep it moving until the outside is browned then throw in the butter and stir until the butter evenly coats the chicken and then cook it for about 20-30 seconds more while constantly stirring it.
Remove the chicken and put it on a plate using a slotted spatula to limit the amount of leftover oil and butter from soaking into the chicken and making it soggy.
Put in sliced onions and stir fry until decently and evenly browned but not charred.
Turn heat to medium, add back in the chicken, then pour in the sauce and keep mixing until the sauce thickens and sticks and soaks into the crust of the chicken.
Best enjoyed with some fried eggs and rice.
I have recently made a Pastebin in Rust. I have hosted it on Linode server, It’s not something unique but I really like it since I have made it from scratch.
here is the link: https://paste1.duckdns.org/
So much software.
The problem is, the target audience is so niche: CLI users, developers, people who value shallow dependencies, heterogenous environments, and localism. Not by any means unique or even rare, but certainly a minority. And I hate marketing and self-promotion, so it makes it difficult for me to even post release announcements.
Luckily, I’m mostly scratching my own itches, so userbase size isn’t important, but knowing that at least a few other people are getting value out of my work would be nice.
Ima clarify that: large userbases are a royal PITA. Yes, there are benefits, but the sense if obligation can be oppressive, and it’s hard to find ways of saying “no” nicely.
What software have you made? Sometimes people make me feel crazy when I tell them it’s bad to have deeply nested dependencies. Often I’ll dismiss a library if it depends on other things. I think the software world is rife with the idea that “if it works now, then my job is done”.
I relate. Marketing myself feels like lying at best, or trying to get people’s money at worst. I wish I could just say “hey I made this thing, i hope it helps in some way” without putting a price tag on it.
I mean… that sounds like open source?
Yes, but it’s that act of self-promotion that is the issue, not whether you’re charging for it. It can be almost worse for OSS, because users can be astonishingly critical, demanding, and insulting about something you’re giving away for free. If I was charging for it, I would be less offended, because they’d have some justification for being irksome.
Promoting your software still feels like sales, somehow - that’s growing up in a capitalism, I guess, plus you’re opening yourself to all that criticism.
I can relate. I wrote an insanely good optimiser for the loading of data to the trading platform for a major fund management company and there are like… 2… people in the world who know and appreciate
My new community and AI powered news summary bot [email protected]
Ik people dont like ai but ive put lots of effort into ensuring it is heighly accurate.
Lmao hello again, I follow it good work
Thx for the support. I keep dropping the link anywhere thats vaguely relevent lol.
Little late, but I built an axe throwing range in my garage a few years ago. It’s taken quite a beating though, and one of the kids knocked the target off the wall, so it’s out of commission right now, but I was always happy to show it off when it was up and running.
Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.
Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.
Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)
Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped for the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)
Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can’t get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I’ve used before, had to mix it up best I could.
Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.
It’ll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn’t settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.
I love valheim. It’s an incredible game that keeps getting better. My first foray into the plains was difficult, and I developed a burning hatred for the fulings (goblin things) there. Monsters rarely drop their heads as trophies. I killed thousands and built a large shed and mounted hundreds of their heads on my walls. No pics handy but if anyone is interested I’ll hop on and screenshot.
lol “goblin murder spree” cabin
A very large and powerful platform for web and command line processesing with a gazillion features.
I’ve been making more music than I usually do lately. Here’s my most recent track: https://on.soundcloud.com/zNnZQUjdG2V4H3Hz8
My shitty cartoons that I moved to a new animation-focused YouTube channel that now are getting less than 1/10th the views after seeming like non-subscribers liked them but subscribers were leaving my channel every time I uploaded them.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. Show the shitty cartoons!
