Checking off a bucket list item — cooking on a finicky AGA in the Cotswolds. Over a couple of days, made beef stew, pulled lamb, falafel, several breakfasts and countless pots of tea.

Oh we also baked — brown butter and bourbon dark chocolate cookies with @beckybowers.bsky.social-milled grains

Okay, we got seven (7) pounds of ribeye on the smoker today. With a little bourbon for me, as a treat.

If you ask my kids, my body is on the brink of implosion from softball.

Sous vide (in triple digits on the porch), then smoke. Turned out great!

The eldest daughter has figured out that you can buy three pomegranates for ~$15 or you can buy one little tub of pomegranate seeds for ~$12. Reader, she has watched youtube videos and is now a proficient pomegranate butcher.

This beanstalk wants to be a space elevator when it grows up

The POLITICO offices are visible in this picture and I shudder to think about what trying to get into them looked like this morning.

Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Enthusiasm is running HIGH (just don't ask me how long it took to get into the office lmao)

This is like how my grandpa made his ribs: * soaked them in a black plastic trash bag in his garage fridge overnight with onions, soy sauce and grape jelly * braised in the oven until they were basically meat Jello * chilled overnight and grilled next day until with sauce for a caramelized crust

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

These pork ribs are braised low and slow in a sweet-savory mix until the meat surrenders, then finished under high heat with a glossy ketchup-honey glaze that caramelizes into something sticky and a little smoky. nyti.ms/4xNVysv

Welp, we’re making ribs.

Get in, nerds, we’re going to Brussels.

This is a fun one: POLITICO is hiring a director of security. Work closely with our infosec, facilities and newsroom operations teams to keep our journalists safe. politico.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/POLITI...

Mitski at the Forest National? Mitski at the Forest National.

This was so remarkably and profoundly good. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... As a dad of two-ish tween girls, I can say: The kids are alright.

The Life and Times of an American Tween

In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats.

newyorker.com

Fester

Andrew Gelston@agelston.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you lived in 1066, what would you do

I mean I say the same thing to my eldest daughter smdh

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

Wilson Phillips comes on the workout playlist this morning. Dehabilitating.

POLITICO is hiring a systems engineering manager. Come work on our infra. politico.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/politi...

Grandmaster level — pouring hot tea, pre-brewed from an Oowala, into a mug on a shaky Northeast Regional train outside of Stamford.

The hockists are at it again Hocking Nonstop

Me, having a stroke: call the ambulunz You: are you having a stroke? Me: by docgo, the ambulunz

Just some baseball jawn

I'm 46 but 35 with wind chill.

Also we cooked; lamb shoulder, spring vegetables, red potatoes, mint salsa verde and a yogurt sauce. And fresh milled soft white wheat shortcakes.

Happy DC spring.

That’s neat.

David Aerne@meodai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...

Pilgrimage.

So @beckybowers.bsky.social and I drove a panel truck from Chico, CA to St. Petersburg, FL. Later that year, I drove from Myrtle Beach, SC to Sacramento, CA for fun. Cheap gas was a whole thing.

WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s@carnegro.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

What’s the longest car ride that you’ve been a part of? In college, I did Central Mass to Huntsville, Alabama. Also New Haven, CT to Naples, FL with a stop in Asheville in between. I’ve only been driving for 9 years but longest I’ve done as a driver is Central Florida to Nashville.

It’s so good. Laurie is the best.

Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 5mo ago

Many moons ago I used to give a talk to coding bootcamps about how to be a web developer. It was very popular and I gave it over 30 times. At long last I have got around to making it into a website, so more people can read it: stuffeverybodyknows.com

Mistakes were made.