The hardest thing about cooking food from other cultures at home is getting the condiments right. Recipes for the main dishes are easy to find, but the recipes for incredible condiments you find at all the restaurants and food trucks never seem to show up, but they make the meal!

Today I sowed radishes, peas, kale, spinach, and cilantro outside, and started tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and rosemary inside.

Some thoughts from having lunch outside:

• It is nice to get some sun!
• I am really looking forward to spring and summer this year.
• Also looking forward to the garden this year.
• Very first mint shoots are already popping up. I’m very happy to let it take over the spot it is in.
• The last two years I’ve had to reseed big parts of my yard in the spring. This year it will only be a small patch. I’ll probably put down clover seed.

Decided to just roll with it and pushed my work-in-progress to https://cagrimmett.com/weather/

Weather station blocks work in progress: Added historical sparklines for all data tonight. Thinking of replacing the Pressure line with an indicator arrow of which way it is moving since it doesn’t fluctuate much.

Working on sparklines with observations from my weather station for the last 48 hours in my weather plugin so you can see how things are trending.

I’m pretty pumped about this nor’easter because it is the first proper storm we’ve had since I put up my weather station. Can’t wait to see the weather data.

I write directly into the #WordPress block editor on a daily basis. It has been at least three years since I’ve lost anything I’ve written because it didn’t save.

Good rule to social media by: If you feel any twinge of outrage whatsoever, don’t RT/share it. You are probably being baited.

Every six months or so I’m reminded that I host a bunch of technical repair manuals for appliances on my server for my father because someone emails me asking questions about some issue that has stumped them. I usually pass them along to my Dad, who always knows the answer.

Live WIP output from my weather station WordPress block:

Looking forward to Michael Lewis’s upcoming book on SVB.

Stripe blocked payouts from SVB today. If any bank can quickly onboard and approve new accounts and get them connected to both Stripe and payroll systems, they’ll have 50% of US startups as customers by Monday morning.

TIL the plant I’ve been calling Moonflower is actually Datura and very toxic to humans. Better not plant them while we have a toddler in the yard.

Overheard on Magic School Bus: “She’s not just any person. She’s a person with a blog!”

Decided to up my seed starting game this year, so got a shelf with a cover and added LED grow strips. Ready to start seeds in a week or two!

Updated the weather station data forwarding script to fetch and update data every 5 minutes instead of every minute, as I’m starting to hit daily API usage limits from Wunderground now that I added my custom block. It looks like the limit is 1500 requests a day (day resets in UTC time). I’m having trouble finding the limits documented anywhere, but around 1500 I start getting errors back for my requests.

Side note: Don’t use multiple Google Docs for your public API documentation. Makes it very difficult to search across documents.

How to create symlinks on macOS, for things like symlinking WordPress core or plugins that you are working on that need a separate git repo:

First, navigate in your terminal to the folder where you want to symlink to live, then run this:

ln -s ~/Projects/path-to/what-you-want-symlinked

I created a plugin to pull down data from my home weather station and display it in a custom block. The data updates every 10 minutes. I’m also gathering daily summaries behind the scenes for future blocks to come.

Here is the block in action. It is currently “no frills” and needs some styling and a round of code clean up, but I’m happy with the first working version.

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Today I had trouble with Valet not being properly linked to the correct PHP version installed via Homebrew. Here is how I fixed it. I’m sure I’ll need this again, so putting it here.

brew unlink php && brew link php
brew services restart --all
composer global update
valet start