So simple, so easy, so good—I often forget I can make this.

If anyone needs ideas for Good Plague Cookin’, here’s a tasty one.

(This recipe was adapted per KB from dragonwagon.com)

via BudgetBytes: rice, “salsa chicken,” roasted bell peppers—My quick notes.

July 2021 update: Well that didn’t last long. Turns out I really miss having a convenient interface to write posts. But I’ve learned enough to implement my site design as a WordPress theme, and I’m tired of using tiny low-to-no-support projects, so WordPress it is!

April 2021 update: After a few months, I decided I wanted my blog integrated, and I wanted to do it with Elixir, so I’m no longer using the static webpack-built website, but the style is basically the same. So anyway, the below is outdated but it was fun learning.

If you haven’t read this yet, you should. But you’re not going to feel good:

“Headlines Don’t Capture the Horror We Saw” (subtitle: “I chronicled what COVID-19 did to a hospital. America must not let down its guard.”)

I’d blockquote something but it should really be read in full.

My initial problem: I have an elixir project I’m building primarily on linux, but I want it to work on Windows, too, and I’m using bcrypt, which needs nmake to compile on Windows.

One must install Visual Studio (VS), but that’s not enough.

As a personal note, since I’ve done it for family a few times now, here are steps one can use to create a gif from a longer video.

A couple years back I was into the idea of Lana Del Rey’s album “Ultraviolence” as a pirate-themed album. My family joked about a version called “Ultrapirates.”

Naturally I ended up writing some alternate lyrics. There’s only two; I never got around to doing “Buccaneer Baby” (for “Brooklyn Baby”). Anyway, I figured I should put them online for posterity…

There’s a new book out by David Graeber, and I haven’t read it yet, but I’m dying to write about a review of it, whose sole criticism is stuck in my craw. I’m talking about Miranda Purves’ Bloomberg review.

I imagine a lot of people identifying with her view, yet I find it deeply flawed and misguided.

April 2021 update: while the pi-hole is a very cool project, I eventually grew tired of maintaining a separate DNS service. I still use unbound on my edgerouter but now my raspberry pi just runs some local web services.

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