itโs 19 degrees celsius and partly cloudy and 1.m..
i actually MADE lamb moussaka this week! it was delicious and LARGE the biggest aubergine in the world. it was so cute from the side with its 5 layers of ๐ and zucchini and ๐ and ๐ and on top instead of bechamel it was an egg+yoghurt+mozzarella blend topped with parmesan.
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yes, yesyes. what else? i wrote a shared list application https://lists.chee.party/ you can make a project by going to /p/anything or a normal list with /l/anything. it is built with a library called yjs which implements a thing called CRDTs which are a very cool way of offline-first collaboration to always converge to the same document in a way that makes sense to a user. they quietly got really good 4 years ago when martin kleppman wrote a paper, a scholarly article, and now there is a lot of extremely exciting progress happening. they have the opportunity to change software completely, the next swing of the long pendulum in the grandfather clock of Big Computer<->Personal Computer. we can have software that runs locally on our computer, but syncs between our computer and our phone without having a Google or Amazon or anyone in between, just our own computers talking to each other. on top of that, you can invite your friend to work on your file too and you can work together, even offline, and when you both reconnect your changes will merge together. with no cloud in between! just talking to each other! also for kind of for free you get infinite undo, time travel, branching paths. and!! a man called Seph Gentle is working on an exciting thing right now thatโs going to make them even cooler. itโs one of the most interesting things thatโs happening in the computer.
also another exciting thing inside the computer is https://socketsupply.co/ which is a node.js-like runtime that can be used to build webview-powered native apps for mac, windows, linux, android and iOS.
zoozoo is going away for a week. did i mention weโre going to spain? flying into madrid and out from barcelona. what fun.
iโve lost hours over the past few days trying to pick a name for the app iโm trying to build, which is so much more fun than building it.
i hope your day is good, have an enjoyable bank holiday
unrelated we were laughing in the back seat about a line in house on mango street when she said they look they they smell like brooms
think the drive thought we were laughing at him because after he said โi did it on purpose to make you laughโ and i felt bad but couldnโt explain
schengen visa
going to spain
meal deal princess
climbed in a bin
packing, working, grumping about
moving is very sleepyfying
iโm tired as can be
but im trying to build something, so donโt wanna sleep yet. it isnโt the shape it needs to be yet. it needs to be where i can see t and know itโs real and what to do next and then i can sleep.
next month spain, next month zoo nights. una casita amarilla en el bosque cerca (well, cerca-ish) de Barcelona. tenemos nuestras boletos and woo woo chorizo and yum yum
pizza express was tasty.
big turkish dinner was tasty.
i donโt know if i made anything tasty.
the package arrived from bartlett it was the magazine offal. i really enjoyed the pieces i read and look forward to reading more.
Apple Shortcuts is my favourite programming language. itโs so there, and really is Actual Thing Oriented, objects that are real stuff you can feel and understand and hold touch rather than data efficient memory layouts. It has triggers now on the iPhone so you can launch a Shortcut when you come home, or get a text from a certain person, or at certain times. really fun.
a lot of the time you can change how you think.
i did something fun for work last week, and iโll be finishing it up tomorrow. i know being fulfilled by your job is for protestants and capitalists, but today is the first sunday in a while iโve not been dreading tomorrow and thatโs nice.
last sunday when zoozer came over we started a week of keto. on monday we went to a whiskey tasting at buffalo trace. later i made some creamy cajun chicken that i will make again. animal of the day: the humble fanaloka.
in the morning it was eggs with chorizo and fresh mozarella and parsley. i had had enough that day of straight gays, data โjournalismโ and concision. later there was salmon fish and tahinia salad.
we deleted our amazon accounts, zoozoo signed up for fastmail, we read books on our ereaders. iโve read john dolarโs erdogan pizza (5โญ) john wyndhamโs the chrysalids (3.7โญ). if you are on thestorygraph and want to be my friend on there you can add me my username is cheee.
i had preรถrdered fadi kattanโs new recipe book bethlehem a few months ago. itโs out next week. iโd preรถrdered it on amazon so when i deleted my account i re-preรถrdered it on bookshop.org. itโs out may 16th so i selected next day delivery so iโd get it on may 17th, but they sent it out actually next day so i got it on may 9th! support your local bookshop.
using the todo list application is actually helping me. i fixed the light under the cooker hood finally. and lots of other stuff. i have an apple shortcut that adds a todo item to import stuff iโve written on paper into the todo system when i arrive home from being outside. and itโs been good fun learning an application together. things can be cloying and true at once.
went to see the new garfield movie with zoozoo today. the movie was not very good but it was fun to sit in the cinema with z. we should go to the cinema to see a good movie some time. i enjoyed when jon was adding parmesan and said โsay whenโ and garfield the cat said โneverโ.
life is good.
iโm so dehydrated i wish there was something that could be done about it.
A few of us are hanging out a Fozzieโs tonight. Do you wanna come?
The lucky are the people who know what they like, and know what theyโre good at, and know how to do those two together as soon as asap.
I think last week when we left off I was waiting for a washing machine. It was raining on sunday. They called before it came and I let them know the only entrance is a metal staircase on the outside of the building. They told me, dismissively โyes yesโ and hung up. They arrived and decided not to fit the machine. They explained that outside my house there is a metal staircase and that because itโs been raining it will be difficult to get a washing machine into the building.
Later in the day it turned out to be beautiful, sunniest day this year or that might have been my mood as I walked through Bow ready to pack and help. The bus journey to Bow, though, was one of the low points of my life. Everyone felt the Summer in the air, and the Spring too. Our bus route goes through Millenium Park, which homes the only IKEA in town. There was a lot of furniture, a lot of families, not a lot of space. The strongest memory of it i have, however, is narrowing my eyes to see the curves of Poseidenโs butt in a photo of a painting in a museum in Portugal included in the book i was reading. And then dropping an Elvis juice which span across the bus floor like a top.
Staying drunk for days and then sober for weeks gives you a very different perspective on the world vs drinking at nights.
I arrived at Luckyโs, made some emergency mexican-lebanese food of canned refried beans with chickpeas and cumin and fried beef mince with cinnamon and onions.
Monday
Monday i worked from home and wondered if i even want to do this. I bade farewell to Zoozoo who zoomed off to airport to meet Mimi for a week. I ate poorly because iโm alone. Is it normal to need someone to take care of in order to be bothered to care for yourself?
I fell asleep in the middle of the day.
tuesday
And woke up at midnight on Tuesday very confused. I added /themes to my blog. There are also some secret themes based on some of my favourite colleaguesโ blogs.
you know when youโre too tired to do anything but too tired to sleep? good to have a few dumb ideas sitting around just for then.
Zizard came over for a bit to collect a charger, i sent her away with an iced latte.
In the evening I watched RRR. Itโs a movie about two cute boys being best friends and dancing and how the English must be wiped off the face of the earth. and about how there is nothing more evil than a class traitor other than the system that makes them think being a class traitor is their only hope. and, obviously, the English. And how there is no more important bonding experience for two men than killing as many Englishmen as possible. And about how the only way to increase the value of a bullet it to put it through an English heart. And how the only thing that can save us is a song (and intense military training and guns) and friendship and religion.
Let not the result be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.
That movie was 3 hours long and i could honestly watch another 6 hours of it. great dances.
wednesday
Wedensday I waited for machines. Try #2 for the washing machine. Also my OP-1F finally home from repairs in Sweden. UPS just left that one on my doorstep and walked away. The washing machine man said there was nothing wrong with my old washing machine, and it was the pipes that are fucked. But heโs wrong. New washing machine is working well.
A programme I wrote for other people stopped working because the web platform silently changed underneath me like itโs 2011. If youโve been cloning declarative shadow root templates kept inside templates (i think the only sensible way to use this feature if youโre trying to use the web as an operating system rather than as an instruction set) then youโll now have to add shadowrootclonable=true to your inner template element. A fundamental breaking change that the browsers didnโt even mention in their release notes (except Safari Technology Preview, unexpectedly).
Alice Bartlett said sheโs going to mail me something that reminds her of my writing. Iโm excited! The Royal Mail!
THu
watched Killers of the Flower Moon. a movie about power and evil and how white people need to be wiped off the face of the earth and how nothing will save us except love and the FBI.
Zoozoo had her schengen appointment!!! It went well!!! We may be in the sunny world of European Spain in a little over a month!!!!!!!!!!!
If not, thereโs always Macedonia, Turkey and Lebanon.
I bought a homeless guy a pack of cigarettes and walked away swaggering like Iโm Auda Abu Tayi โiโm a river to my people!โโธปi took a note to make fun of myself about that later.
Went out for a drink and learned several times in a row that I no longer know how to talk to centrists. The centre between โeradicate a peopleโ and โdonโt eradicate a peopleโ is what exactly? Eradicate a few hundred thousand more?
I donโt need your vibes-based analysis of the situation that is made of 40 tweets and 1 wikipedia article on the issue, and if youโre going to be wrong and uninformed and confident and lecturing all at once I may well be angry and I may well be patronizing and I may well be impatient and I am not going to feel sorry about it and I am not going to shake your hand because there is no โdebateโ to be had when your side is genocide.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Itโs been chill. I picked up Zoozooโs new ebook reader (a kobo clara colour) and filled it with some books she is reading or interested in reading. Sheโll be over soon once sheโs left Mimi at the airport.
cool picture of zoozoo at a lighthouse in plymouth
hehe
going to a whiskey tasting at the buffalo trace distillery tomorrow.
