A bit of learning. A bit of interest. A bit of 🍿.

blog.parente.dev/agent-ex/

Cut peony flower in a small vase on a desk

Our peonies are in bloom. Love that smell.

New Plugins: "Etch" Google Calender, Weather, ... into your local notes Hi all, I wanted to share two new plugins that “etch” information from third-party service directly into your notes for permanent, local, offline access. https://github.com/parente/obsidian-etch-go...

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)

Web development is fun again AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.

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...

Za’atar Parmesan Pinwheels (Published 2022)

🍽️ 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...

Gnocchi Gratin

🍽️ 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. 🍩♥️🦶🦖👽

Smoky Confit Tomato and Lemon Pasta

🍽️ 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). 🍽️

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers...

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. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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 - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

Sheet-Pan Chicken and Potatoes With Feta, Lemon and Dill (Published 2019)

🍽️ Last night's. But I like feta and dill so ours was a bit heavier in those departments. 😊

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

Crispy Gnocchi With Burst Tomatoes and Mozzarella (Published 2021)

🍽️ 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' 🙊