Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Notice how nobody is talking about the Epstein files?
Who would have thought…
I hadn’t heard of this before, but it also resonates as someone who is fond of the “T-shaped people” concept.
Lovely arrangement! I wish you luck that the demand on your time and expertise will also reduce, and you don’t end up with 3x12 hour work days!
Round 2 tonight with the second half of the fillet. Higher initial oven temps and a shorter baking time meant the exterior of the fillet didn’t overcook. I preferred this.
Sounds great! Every time I’ve had goat, it was lovely! Great to see it’s becoming more widely available in Australia!
Haha, you’re not the first person to ask :-) But it’s a bit of a festive dish for me and I’ve been trying to improve my results cooking it.
Yeah, it was a bit OTT… I now know why recipes call for button mushrooms rather than portobellos which I used.
Layers of prosciutto laid out on a kitchen counter, which are then covered in duxelles - a finely-chopped mushroom mix.
A beef fillet, covered in mustard, about to be rolled up in prosciutto and mushrooms
A slice of Beef Wellington, plated with roasted carrots, charred green asparagus, and a red wine jus
A very pleasant bottle of wine :-)
Bit of a mammoth prep, but the home-made Beef Wellington was worth it in the end. Merry Christmas folks!
interesting detailed read about Twilio trading operational complexity of microservices for SPOF risk of a monolith - risk mitigated with monorepo, dependency management and strong automated test
www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
@jasper07.secondphase.com.au Happy birthday mate! 🥳
Inadvertent error messages on a public display screen, courtesy of Singapore’s MRT
Singapore’s trains are running Linux! Also cc @kevlin.bsky.social
Amazing! Well done saving an appliance from going to landfill!
This is what happens when facts meet marketing hype.
Use the web app! I’ve been doing that since 2020 and love it. :-)
All of this, and asking “what are we trying to achieve here?” a lot :-)
How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
idiallo.com/blog/how-to-...
good reminder that leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about knowing what questions to ask and how to communicate across different perspectives.
I have a lot of respect for them - it’s a lot of effort per mouthful!
Yeah, had to boil strips of pork skin to make the jelly, and also lots of very fine dicing, dough making and resting, wrapping, etc… But better than staring at a screen :-)
First time making xiao long bao by myself. Bit of a marathon effort making everything from scratch, but despite the wonky shapes they turned out well. 5 hours of prep time, and all gone in 10 minutes 😋
A bag of flour that has been vacuum sealed
I love having a chamber vacuum sealer because it allows me to re-seal things I rarely use in the kitchen, like flour. Thanks Anova for making a domestically-priced model! #cooking #sousvide
Lucky Inbox. Maybe there’s a message from a Nigerian Prince waiting for me?
A cocktail in a coupe glass with orange peel garnish, set on a stainless steel bar counter
The joy of sitting at the counter of a great #cocktail bar and talking to the staff about what _they_ would choose next. Valentin from L’Artchimiste in Lyon suggested a Champs-Élysée which I’d never heard of before, but hit the spot with its deep, dark, subtly spiced and quite herbaceous flavour.
Due to the UK’s new age verification law, I had been locked out of Bluesky DMs while in the UK for the last ~10 days. Now in the land of liberté 🇫🇷 and everything works again as it should. How is this UK law about protecting kids?? Feels a tad Orwellian… #freespeech
tldr humanity needs to engineer buildings around filtered air replacement rate and it's not even that dramatic but for dramatic results
Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Thank you @jasper07.secondphase.com.au 🙏
#SAP folks: I'd appreciate your vote on this innovation idea to enable FX valuation at month end for multiple company codes at once, rather than executing one by one: influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/id... 🙏
