Coffee cherries on the living room coffee plant!

The Austrian Daylight Cycle Theory would make for a great tongue-in-cheek paper. Raising the daylight interest rate leads to daylight savings, which curbs daylight malinvestment.

I opened an issue in the Gutenberg repo for a setting to require alt text on images before publishing: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/59754

I admire Bluesky’s setting to prevent posting without alt text on all images. This would make an excellent #WordPress #a11y core setting!

Learning from last year’s seed starting mistakes: – more lights (shifted four bars to one shelf instead of one per) – lights closer to the seeds (raised up the soil and heating pads) – warmer location (basement instead of my drafty office) – lights on a timer (sunrise to sunset)

I like to batch things that I find annoying. Two examples in the last two days: I printed 8 things that I’ve been holding on to for two months. I superglued four things that I’ve set aside for the past month.

Deli quart containers might be my new dust collection adapters. One end fits a 4″ outer diameter and the other fits a 4″ inner diameter.

Dust collection system is coming along! Next step is running hoses.

Sanded and planed the top to even out the joined sections. Now adding a blend of linseed oil and beeswax that I made a couple years ago for some stools. I had enough left for a couple coats.

Tonight’s tipple: Eastern Sour https://ultimatemaitai.com/2019/12/08/the-eastern-sour/

Oh, cool! One of my blog posts is in the Stack Overflow newsletter this week!

Blog post with the newsletter content: https://stackoverflow.blog/newsletter/issue-216-functional-time-travel/

“What region of Italy is chicken parm from?”

“New Jersey”

We cleaned the whole house today, so of course our toddler came home and threw up in three different rooms before bedtime.

The bassline on NIN’s Sanctified is like a dark alternative Seinfeld.

I went to the Belmont Stakes just once in 2015 (we saw American Pharoah win the Triple Crown!) and haven’t been able to get off of their mailing list since. 9 years of unwanted emails.

Snow day

Seeing the videos of people wearing Vision Pros around in public, I can’t help but think of the Gargoyles in Snow Crash and Loki in Daemon.

The Baker Creek seed catalog came today! Spring is on its way.

Roasted a duck for a get together tonight and it might become one of our go-tos. It is easier than it seems and the rendered fat makes great side dishes (roasted potatoes and sautéed haricot verts). Plus we have another pint of fat to use later!