I ~scratched some itches~ built some new Obsidian plugins over the holidays.
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I ~scratched some itches~ built some new Obsidian plugins over the holidays.
forum.obsidian.md/t/new-plugin...
Balm for the tech souls who need to hear it: It's not you, it's the system.
For one, there's likely a years-of-prior-experience prereq separating slop from quality here. For another, we may be layering on more complexity that we've yet to identify and regret. (typo fix)
ma.ttias.be/web-developm... and news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648... match my experience to date.
Not to say AI is a good and proper solve for complexity in software development ... 🧵
Pic of the Shepherd's Pie I made for dinner.
Pic of the half-eaten Shepherd's Pie I made for dinner.
🍽️ Shepherd's Pie for a cold New Years night.
Pic of the Baked Mushrooms and White Beans With Buttery Bread Crumbs recipe I made from NYT Cooking.
🍽️ While I'm here posting, this one was warm and filling for the mushroom lovers in the house. Would eat again.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
🍽️ Trying these za'atar parm pinwheels for a NYE get together. 🤞
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
Book covers for The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
📚🪐 All caught up on the Shadow of the Leviathan series with nowhere to go til June 2026. What to do, what to do.
www.amazon.com/Shadow-of-th...
🍽️ Tested at Friendsgiving. Approved for Thanksgiving. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...
📚🪐Thank you, <coworker not on / hiding on bsky>, for the Dungeon Crawler Carl referral. The 7 book binge is something I apparently needed. 🍩♥️🦶🦖👽
🍽️ Loved making and eating this one. The ancho chiles and the lemon zest peels gave it a unique flavor. I went with far less oil (1/2 to 2/3 cup). The sauce was perfectly glossy.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...
🪐📚💙 Really enjoying The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. That is all.
☕️ What is this Model Context Protocol (MCP) thing? A brief: blog.parente.dev/mcp-brief/
#AI
Garbage in -> Garbage out. Rainbows in -> Rainbows out.
Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
@charity.wtf Thank you for the PILE of stickers, as promised.
Fam devoured (after frying). 🍽️
Laid up for the weekend. Upside: making progress on a copy of "Originals" by Adam Grant that someone gifted to me. 📚
Nice to see research backing the sometimes counterintuitive lessons I've learned in my career.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/1a3749...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
github.com/lucahammer/t... worked well for deleting all of my data on that other site while keeping my account active so someone else can't claim it after 30 days (until someone changes the rules ...)
Same. Took a chance on it and it paid off. Definitely more of a weekend vs weeknight recipe because of the cooking time. Prep was relatively simple.
🍽️ Rice and Squash Bombe. Came out looking decent and tasting good.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...
No free lunches. No silver bullets.
Pic of the finished dish in a dutch oven
🍽️ Last night's Riso al Forno alla Pizzaiola (according to NYT Cooking). Simple comfort food.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...
There was plenty of mingling of the chicken and potato flavors even with the parchment paper.
🍽️ Last night's. But I like feta and dill so ours was a bit heavier in those departments. 😊
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
🍽️ A fam favorite tonight before everyone is back to school / work tomorrow
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022...
Very kind of you. Thank you 🫵 (y'all!) for all the writing, thinking, sharing on the topic over the years.
You did have me at 'snarky' 🙊
🍽️ Change of flavor pace. Sweet, tart, savory. Side of cheddar and chives mashed potatoes went well with it.
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...
Alright. Here's my attempt at a "Software Observability Roundup"
blog.parente.dev/software-obs...
Why? See the intro.
Criticism 👉 @parente.dev so I can improve!
Kudos 👉 @mipsytipsy.bsky.social, @hazelweakly.me, @boristane.bsky.social, @jeremymorrell.dev, @aparker.io ... I'm just aggregating!