mradcliffe

Note to self, docker cli 29.4.0 doesn’t build with the latest docker 29.4.0, you need 29.3.1.

Ugh.

drumm shared this image on Slack about the increase in traffic going on drupal.org since yesterday:

red is blocked requests, green is what got through

Remember this is run by a 501(c)(3), not a billion-dollar private company.

I baked them for about 22 minutes this time, and that resulted in a better color.

I made more furikake bagels this time since it tasted alright last time.

Anyways, bagels for lunch this week.

@cooking 

I really like MPlayer. I have used it for decades. I adapted to the command-line interface (CLI), but as a casual user, not as an expert user.

I use MPlayer to play (and listen to):

• Videos of birds and my dash cam in various encodings, mostly H.264 (but I have ancient videos encoded with xvid), hopefully without tearing (open source AMD and Intel drivers).
• DVDs because I’m old (I don’t own a single Blu-Ray disc!)
• Videos of various formats and resolutions that I check length and size and figure out how to crop later using ffmpeg’s video filters.
• Videos without pre-rendered fancy subtitles (MKV).

For...

Oh, I forgot to build the kernel with overlayfs support after updating docker on the desktop 🤦

I can’t wait until I can afford a battery system. ETA 15:30 but probably sooner than that. 

Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Box Pasta and Homemade Pasta Sauce

• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Yields: 2 servings
• Tools
  • knife
  • (optional) food processor with mixing blade attachment
  • a deep sauce pan or pot
  • a sauce pan
  • a frying pan (lid optional)
  • 2-3 bowls to set things aside in

• 2 chicken breasts, boneless
• 6 cloves or more garlic (.5 bulb)
• vegetables, add pretty much whatever you usually buy, who fucking cares, maybe use a real onion instead of scallions because you’re special, otherwise here’s an idea.
  • 3 mushrooms
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 2 green onions (scallions)
• 1 can of tomato sauce (225g)
• 200g box pasta (rainbow twirls)
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 6 cups (1400 ml) of water
• 1 tbsp flour
• salt
• (optional) pepper
• (optional) oregano

This ended up costing me $11.00 USD for 2 servings in 2026. My vague memory puts it at about half that back twenty years ago. I think that’s pretty good for a decently healthy meal.

Back then, I was armed with only a “dumpster” dived vegetable slicer, free gift paring knife, frying pan, my roommate's cutting board, and 2 sauce pans. This is all you need. Having better tools makes the job easier, but not impossible.

Amazingly I still have both of the sauce pans and use them regularly!

I now use a food processor and chopping knife rather than a paring knife. I also just got a fancy new silicon and mesh lid for my frying pans so I am not as messy. Spoiler: I am still as messy.

1. Rinse the vegetables in a strainer. Or be lazy. It doesn’t really matter unless you’re a food snob.
2. Peel the garlic cloves.
3. Slice 1 garlic clove length-wise, and slice one of the two halves into narrow strips and set aside.
4. Mince the rest of the garlic cloves either with a knife or in a food processor. Set aside the minced garlic into a small bowl or plate.
5. Peel the carrots
6. Finely chop the carrot or use pulse on the food processor.
7. Finely chop the mushrooms after cutting off the stems because I don’t like them (or use pulse on the food processor).
8. Finely chop the bell pepper after removing the seeds.
9. Finely chop the white portion of the green onions.
10. Roughly cut the green portion of the green onions as a topping for later.
11. Combine the diced green onions, bell pepper, mushroom, and carrot and set aside.
12. Use a knife to cut small, long holes into the chicken breasts and insert the narrow garlic clove strips as best as you can
13. Add the flour, a pinch of salt, add the chicken breasts, and mix to lightly-bread the chicken breasts. This can be done in a bag known as the “shake” in shake-n-bake.
14. Add the water to the deep sauce pan or pot on the stove set to medium-high heat, add 1-2 tbsp of olive oil to the sauce pan on the stove and set to medium heat. Add 1-2 tbsp of olive oil to the frying pan on the stove and set to medium-high heat.
15. When the sauce pan with olive oil is hot, add the garlic and brown for about 1 minute.
16. Add the tomato sauce, a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, a pinch of oregano to the sauce pan and mix.
17. Add the finely-chopped vegetables into the sauce pan, mix, turn down the heat and simmer. Stir occasionally while doing other steps.
18. Add the pasta to the boiling water. Set a timer for 12 minutes and do step 17 when the timer or pasta is done (10-12 minutes).
19. Add the chicken breasts to the frying pan. Sauté on medium-high heat until each side is browned, about 3 minutes each side. Then turn the heat down to low and flip the chicken breasts every couple of minutes taking the temperature and cooking until it reaches 165F / 74C to be safe. This takes about 14 to 15 minutes. If the chicken is getting done before the boiling water, pull it out at 160F / 72C and let it rest while performing the other steps.
20. Drain all but 1/2 cup or 115ml of the pasta water.
21. Add some olive oil to the deep sauce pan or pot. Turn the heat down to low. Add the pasta back. Stir. Then add the pasta water. Stir. Then add the pasta sauce. Stir.
22. Plate and top with the remaining green onions.

CC: @cooking 

I think I am going to try a cooking challenge this week:

Revisit a simple meal that I used to cook when I was first starting out in life using the same or similar ingredients.

For me, this would be one of the two “simple”, budget-friendly recipes that without requiring fancy equipment—sautéed (?) boneless, lightly-breaded (?) chicken breasts with a pasta and a crunchy (?) tomato-based sauce (usually with mushrooms, carrots, and bell peppers).

I checked and I don’t have any pictures of this from 20 years ago. Maybe that’s a good thing.

I used to shop at a Meijer, but that location is now a bank...

It seems like some bad/spam actors are spamming requests pretending (?) to be actors from qoto.org (redirects to social.cleverlibre.org) all from various different IP addresses.

Luckily that instance is offline (?) so none of the spam is getting through to me because I can’t look up the actors, but it does mean my site is making requests denied by 406 and some 403 denied with a HTML response.

I set an instance block on qoto.org for now to prevent any more additional lookups.

I realized I could make a grilled cheese like a panini press on my Foreman grill.

How did I never think of that?

I made tomato soup last night, and so tonight I’m going to have tomato soup with a grilled cheese. Maybe throw in an avocado into that grilled cheese because I have one remaining.

And with one bigoted, anti-trans statement by the Democratic party candidate for governor, Vivek Ramaswamy will be the next governor of Ohio.

Thanks for the e-mail, Xero.

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This is hardly the worst example of e-mails sent in plain text that are not actually plain text.

The worst offender is Meetup.com, which literally copies the HTML into the plain text section, so all my e-mails from them are displayed as utter garbage.