Wishing for the "training wheels" paradigm to be more common than the "spend a lot of money on entry-level gear, only to later spend a lot of money on advanced gear" pattern of total replacement. It would be a nice day if tools accommodated the naturally changing needs of their users... less wasteful.
I made these marinated eggs because I miss the tea eggs of my childhood. These aren't quite the same, but they're simpler to make.
Back in Taiwan, I could go to any 7-Eleven and they'd have a pot of tea eggs simmering away near the checkout. ๐
food
I meant to make marinated eggs several days ago but I had a mental block telling me that it would be too hard. It wasn't.
1. boil a dozen eggs in a pot
2. quench them in ice water
3. peel them
4. put them in a tub with a mix of soy sauce, Chinese spice powder (clove, cinnamon, anise, cumin), and water
5. leave in the fridge overnight
They're really tasty, and I have to stop myself from eating all of them at once.
I absolutely adore the educational digression ("by the way, these curves are heavily used in..."). I feel like if this were made today, this help file would be full of links to Wikipedia (and I'd love it for that, too).
This DOS game named 1994POOL is amazing to me for its design, even though trying to actually play it just melts my brain.
I got more entertainment from reading its help pages than from the gameplay, but I'm sure someone competent at physics-based challenges would enjoy this even more!
Available to play at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1994POOL_1020
trying to follow this instruction:
talk about the things you love, even if you think nobody cares.
people won't ask for it at least at first, but some of them will care
and it's attractive to see someone talk about the things they love.
let go of the notion that it's worthless if you don't get a minimum number of listeners, reactions, replies.
practice caring publicly about the things you care about.
I think this is a good reminder for me. I never liked being shy anyway
These are my streaming eyeglasses. When I first tried using webcam-based face tracking (VSeeFace), the program kept mistaking the top of my glasses for my eyebrows. With these rimless glasses, my eyebrows get picked up by the program without issue. Might be worth a try if you have the same problem (I mostly blame my very sparse eyebrows).
For a long time, I had an inferiority complex about making chiptunes with VSTs instead of authentic hardware. I'm so, so relieved to find people who focus on the sonic and compositional constraints (the main appeal for me) and aren't gear elitists. I feel so much better now.
(I also haven't the money, space, nor desire to collect the hardware.)
I've been slowly (over the past month+) gathering the parts to build an additional PC and it's basically done now. Saved a lot of money by using the old (ca. 2016) parts I upgraded away from.
I put Ubuntu on it as a placeholder OS but also checked to see how much of my Steam library supports Linux, and... huh, I'm actually optimistic that I won't need Windows on this box after all. Here's hoping!
Unironic thanks to the mystery neighbour(s) whose cooking aromas reach my room. Firstly, your cooking smells wonderful! Secondly, it sometimes gives me food inspiration. And lastly, I'm always forgetting to eat (don't really feel "hunger"), so it helps to have outside reminders of normal meal times.
I make chiptune (NES-like) & electronic music, dabble in vector/pixel/3D art, and sometimes I'm a robot VTuber on Twitch for fun.
This is where I put weird stuff and thinky thoughts from my head-RAM.
she/her