Sweet decor at Grandma’s pool 🐸

I learned something new tonight: How to recharge the refrigerant in my car’s AC system. Easier than I expected.

Charlie is getting more adventurous and capable every day. I’m so proud of him.

Our purple peas are ready for harvest. We used some in our pasta tonight, along with fresh basil, chives, parsley, garlic, and lemon.

The farm I get our veggie share from set up an email group anyone could reply to for members instead of making it announcement-only. Rookie mistake. Now we have never-ending reply chains from boomers.

A-typical weather day. Four different thunderstorms throughout the day with periods of sunshine in between.

Newly rediscovered cocktail recipe from Trader Vic: Māori Punch https://cocktailwonk.com/2023/06/maori-punch-an-undiscovered-trader-vic-original.html

With any luck this Shortcut will post to my blog, Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky all at the same time.

Anyone figure out how to post to Bluesky via the Apple Shortcuts app yet? I suppose I’ll need to dig in to the AT protocol and use the Get Contents of URL action to POST.

Testing a Shortcut to post to my blog, Twitter, and Mastodon all at once. If it works, I’ll try adding Bluesky via curl next.

Last week I mentioned to Amanda that I hadn’t heard the coyote pack since last summer and wondered if they had moved on. Spoiler: They didn’t.

This week’s veggie share: head lettuce, parsley, basil, cucumbers, bok choi, arugula, radishes, and scallions. Here is how we plan to use them: https://cooklikechuck.com/2023/06/23/roxbury-farm-2023-csa-week-3/

Today I’ve been married for 10 years and have been blogging here for 15 years. Still very happy with both decisions. Cheers! 🍷

I think this Anti-Meta Fedi Pact is short sighted and not in the best interest of the users on those instances.

Defederate the instances with rampant spam, bad actors, and poor moderation? Sure! Block users or whole instances that violate your server’s rules? Go for it! But preemptively blocking/defederating the whole service in advance? That ain’t it. It seems like the mods who signed are this week’s landed gentry.

I think beer makes my seasonal allergies worse.

TIL about ink traps

An ink trap is a feature of certain typefaces designed for printing in small sizes. At an ink trap, the corners or details are removed from the letterforms. When the type is printed, ink naturally spreads into the removed area. Without ink traps, the excess ink would soak outwards and ruin the crisp edge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_trap

Made a Lost Lake for the first time tonight. It is excellent and going in the regular rotation.

Lost Lake Cocktail – Imbibe Magazine

For the Lost Lake cocktail, Lost Lake’s Paul McGee combines aged rum, passion fruit syrup, lime juice, pineapple juice, maraschino liqueur and Campari.

imbibemagazine.com

Looking forward to checking out this show at the Center for Machine Arts on Saturday. Very cool to see stuff like this happening locally in Peekskill.

I always have to look up how to find payments from Apple and Google Pay in the Stripe dashboard. The answer is here:

To locate Apple Pay or Google Pay charges, you can export your payments from the Dashboard with the Card Tokenization Method column enabled. In the resulting export that column will contain apple_pay for Apple Pay payments and android_pay or google_pay for Google Pay payments.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/filtering-for-apple-pay-or-google-pay-charges-using-the-stripe-dashboard