I went off script a bit with the flatbread. My grocery store usually has a pretty good pita or naan, but they recently started carrying an onion missi roti that I wanted to try. I believe it uses whole wheat, so it started off darker than your usual pita straight from the jump. I may have left it on the grill for a minute too long, but rest assured it was far from cracker-esque.

That sounds excellent! This was just a quick weeknight ad-lib. I’ve been traveling a lot lately and was craving something fresh. If I had a bit more time I might have swapped out the green onion for some pickled shallot to give it more color variety.

It varies between fish whether or not you want to keep the skin on while cooking. Some just turn to rubber if you try to sear them. Salmon skin comes out a bit like crispy chicken skin. It adds some nice texture and meaty flavor. But everyone’s got their own preferences.

Seems fishy.

It’s pickled! Had to get it extra purple! 🙌

Honestly your pizza looks great. Less can be more toppings wise if you’re making smaller pizzas at home.

Since you’re already fooling around with cast iron, maybe give this thin-crust tortilla “pizza” a try. https://www.seriouseats.com/extra-crispy-bar-style-tortilla-pizza-recipe It checks all the pizza craving boxes while being something a bit closer to a home kitchen fool proof recipe.

Refried black beans are criminally underrated. Looks good!

It’s Linux designed around modern containerization and microservice technologies. The “cloud” naming is a bit of a misnomer, but the same abstracted technologies that help run a modern data center will help make sure your handheld’s launcher doesn’t break because a game or comparability layer wants to use a different database version. https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/DEFINITION.md

The games aren’t deep per se, but they just get a little tonally weird towards the end given the franchise’s cute presentation. You go from fighting a tree who won’t stop disrupting forest creatures to battling an unknowable alien incarnation of darkness who wants to take over all of reality. The series has a lot of, “Oh no, our friend’s been possessed by a manifestation of pure evil!” plots.

The signal to noise ratio has seemed particularly out of wack with Google lately. The amount of blog spam SEO nonsense that crops up into the top 4 results has been pretty noticeable.

I’m not sure it’s entirely a Google thing. Reddit’s decline has made it harder to find quick answers for, “My washing machine’s making this weird string of beeps?” Niche hobbies moving from forums to Discord chats means, “How do I safely remove a keycap without damaging the switch?” is becoming a pinned message in a server you have to hear about via word of mouth. Basically any technology troubleshooting topic has moved from a blog post / forum to a YouTube video. And a 10 minute long one at that. Gotta hit those higher ad tiers.

For what it’s worth, I’m starting the new year off giving Kagi a try. It’s a startup trying to make a paid search engine work. You get 100 free searches to give it a try. After that it’s $5/mo for 300 searches, or $10/mo for unlimited. I’m not sure I’ll sign up for it just yet, but it seems pretty nice. No ads, custom components for things like Stack Overflow and Reddit, and some other nice touches for people who care about search. Their image search actually has a “View Image” link in addition to the “View Page” link. It’s hard to quantify how “good” a search result is, but I’ve been pretty impressed with it so far.

Looks excellent! 🙌

If lacking the sealed pressed bread isn’t a dealbreaker, look into the Chopped Cheese sandwich. It’s a similar burger-adjacent sandwich with broken up ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, and onion. Not exactly the same thing, but doable at home without any special hardware. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NdpVlfnwB4

There’s an interesting conversation to be had about making the Fediverse more user friendly at the cost of increased centralization and non-standard extensions. It’s really difficult to focus on the message you’re trying to convey when you have five other alarmist topics crammed into the post.

Mozilla’s conflict of interest taking money from one of the largest internet advertisers and browser manufacturers was widely discussed during their recent anti-trust trial. It’s not super constructive to flatten the whole conversation to Mammoth being “Google Funded”.

Here’s the recipe I used: https://www.seriouseats.com/beef-barley-soup-recipe There’s a pressure cooker variant too. Haven’t had any leftovers yet to know how they are.

If you’re looking for a new Jet Set Radio style game, make sure to check out the recently released indie project Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. They did a great job of capturing the JSR spirit while modernizing the controls and gameplay. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353230/Bomb_Rush_Cyberfunk/

Hard to beat some Monday night gyudon. https://www.seriouseats.com/gyudon-japanese-simmered-beef-and-rice-bowl-recipe

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Get a bug guy to come spray the exterior of your place. They can use stronger stuff then folk’s indoor life hacks. Eventually they’ll stop getting in.