Watched the first two episodes of season two of The Rings of Power last night.
I felt like it was a strong start to the season, and I find myself getting into it more than I did with season one.
I'm enjoying the emphasis on dialogue between characters. There's a lot of screen time dedicated to two or three characters having a compelling conversation without it feeling like they just want to dump some exposition before we jump to the next shot.
Even with the dialogue, everything still felt engaging and well-paced.
I'll be watching the third episode either today or tomorrow, and then I'll join everyone else in waiting for the next one to drop.
Starting out 30 right by having a cup of jasmine tea out in the sunroom.
Feeling like I need to lock myself in a room for a week with the black metal turned up to eleven.
I had two very cool bird experiences today.
When I was walking Arya this morning a hawk flew across my path right at eye level and into a nearby bush.
Later I was sitting in my sunroom with the sliding door open and a bird landed on the screen door, looked at me, and then flew away.
I wish I had been able to get a picture of either of these, but they both happened too quickly.
Just finished migrating this site over to Cloudflare Pages.
I've been meaning to do this for a while, ever since I had a good experience setting up crane-lang.org there.
This weekend I wrote my first procedural macro in Rust and had a lot of fun in the process!
Missing Kunming again.
Really wish I could go back.
I wonder if any parts of it would still feel the same?
Today I discovered that it takes Node over 30 seconds to resolve all of the various modules when booting one of our apps at work and now I hate everything.
Currently in the process of unshipping some code for a feature that we decided not to release.
It stings a bit, but I'm grateful that I'm part of an engineering team that values and prioritizes deleting code when it no longer serves its purpose.
Crock-pot kimchi chicken turned out well!
Spent a little under 4 hours in the pot on high. Shredded the chicken at the end and let it sit in the sauce for a bit longer.
I decided to serve it in tortillas (small correction: we had white corn tortillas, not flour) with some lettuce from a bagged salad mix. I also added a dash of extra sauce while assembling my tacos.
Next time I'll definitely be dressing the chicken with some more of the sauce after I shred it, as it lost some of the flavor potency in the pot.
Some other things to try in the future:
Trying to build a website that you can get lost in for hours at a time.
My slow cooker is perhaps the most criminally unused kitchen appliance I own.
Given that I work from home, it seems like a no-brainer to fix something in the Crock-pot partway through the day to have ready when dinnertime rolls around. The other benefit is that I get to sniff the aromas of the contents simmering while I work.
Today I'm trying out some chicken in a kimchi hot sauce Heather bought at the store. I haven't yet decided how I'll serve it. I was thinking over rice or maybe in some flour tortillas?
In an amusing turn of events, the buffer I'm composing this chirp in is named smart-chicken-enjoy.md.
One of my goals for 2023 is to "distance myself from platforms I don't control."
While I very much had Twitter in mind when I wrote this, I also haven't really been enthused about moving my primary web presence to Mastodon or Cohost. While I do have accounts on both, I'd rather invest in a platform that I have total control over.
My answer for this is something I'm currently calling "chirps".
Chirps—as you might have guessed from the name—are a replacement for tweets. They will be short, stream-of-conciousness style pieces, ideally without the friction of spinning up a longer-form piece.
I have a small Rust CLI that I use to help manage them:
λ chirp
Usage: chirp <COMMAND>
Commands:
draft Generate a new draft chirp
publish Publish a draft chirp
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
chirp draft creates a new file with a randomly-generated name (I'm currently composing in slick-tigers-rush.md) where I can compose the chirp.
Once I'm happy with it, I'll run chirp publish slick-tigers-rush to convert it into a TOML array entry that I can shove into a list.
I then commit, git push, and let a GitHub Action build and publish the site. Painless.
Is this thing on?