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A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen with three pieces of fried chicken beside it, as well as an extra boiled egg.

Today was a quiet one, but we _did_ go out to Japanese in Chatswood (once again, shout out to the Sydney Metro) and it was excellent.

chatswood darkroom food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 28 August 2024, 20:38

A photo of two flour-covered round golden brown loaves of bread with magnificent splits in the top, sitting on a cooling crack.

I haven't made any bread since March, but aw yiss, still got the touch. 😎

our house darkroom portrait mode bread

Posted on 28 August 2024, 11:49

A photo of a three-section metal tray, the left has a roti canai which is a sort of fluffy balled-up pastry thing and a dollop of sambal sauce, and the other two sections have two different types of curry sauce in them.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, with a slice of tomato, lime, and three slices of cucumber next to it.

Featherdale has been followed up by Mamak and it was goooooood as hell as always. 👌🏻 Good thing I've done 15k steps today, between Featherdale and an hour on the elliptical, because I am SO FULL now.

chatswood darkroom food mamak

Posted on 26 August 2024, 20:06

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app, showing I did 4221kJ, 79 exercise minutes, 19 standing hours, and 12,251 steps for a total of 10.51km.

I have never done NINETEEN standing hours before. 🫠

screenshot ios

Posted on 25 August 2024, 22:37

A photo looking out the front window of a Sydney Metro train in the tunnel, the tunnel is a rounded shape and we're in motion so there's a ton of motion blur.

We are home! Taking the Metro to Central and changing to the airport line was such a damned good idea, it was so convenient. No road tolls, plus I didn't need to attempt to drive while being tired. However the downside of being up at 4:50am is that it's now 9:23am and my body is telling me it's lunch time.

darkroom sydney metro

Posted on 25 August 2024, 9:17

A screenshot of the iOS Alarms app with an alarm set for 4:50am.

@yayKM's mum is visiting for two weeks and her plane gets in at arse o'clock tomorrow morning, so our alarms are set so we can go pick her up from the airport. 😫 This is going to be a shock.

screenshot ios

Posted on 24 August 2024, 21:23

A photo of our extremely ghetto "weather station": it's a piece of wood attached to the outside of our back room with a tupperware over the end to protect the sensors from direct rain. The new sensor is dangling down underneath the tupperware and looks almost like it has a microphone on the end of it (it's actually the weatherproofing mesh).

It's aliiiive! I might need to reposition it a little, but I'm _fairly_ sure that it shouldn't be getting any direct sunshine where it's dangling there because there are a bunch of trees just over to the right on the other side of the fence. I'm quite pleased with the overall architecture of my code for this whole project (https://github.com/VirtualWolf/esp32-sensor-reader-mqtt), it was delightfully straightforwards to find a library for the sensor and integrate it.

our house diy darkroom esp32

Posted on 24 August 2024, 12:53

A photo of a sunny window behind a kitchen sink, with cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open.

A photo of our box window that's in the lounge room, also with nice cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open and the sun coming in.

We FINALLY got the dingy grey vertical blinds in the kitchen and lounge room replaced with nice new light cream-coloured ones today. @yayKM had a seething hatred of the old ones, I didn't think they were _that_ bad but I'll definitely grant the new ones look much nicer, and they brighten the place up quite noticeably at night.

our house darkroom renovations

Posted on 23 August 2024, 21:38

A photo of the box of the Dune 2 Blu-ray and a Pimoroni "HyperPixel" four-inch display, plus the new temperature sensor which consists of a coiled black cable with almost what looks like a silver microphone cover at the end of it where the sensor lives.

New goodies! Dune Part 2 in 4K HDR, a replacement screen for one of our Raspberry Pi-attached dashboards, and a different type of temperature/humidity sensor, the Sensiron SHT-30, that's actually got a weather-proof mesh around it and is specifically designed for outdoor usage. (Our current BME280 it turns out is _not_, and despite being protected from direct rain, the humidity after it rains gets high enough that the sensor gets saturated and all the readings end up being wrong. I also found out that you can actually calculate the dew point if you have the temperature and relative humidity so I don't even need the BME280 to do that for me! The only thing that I'll be missing is the atmospheric pressure, I COULD leave the BME280 attached for just that but but I don't actually know that I care all that much about it tbh.)

our house raspberry pi darkroom esp32 dune

Posted on 21 August 2024, 14:35

A photo of a rather tall beef burger with a slice of cheese on it, and a big blob of ketchup dripping out one side.

A photo of a partially-completed jigsaw puzzle. The artwork is of a stylised seaside town with ships on the ocean in the distance, and a some nautical-themed shops in the foreground. It's all done in pastel sort of colours.

For @yayKM's birthday we made home-made burgers, then did some of one of her new jigsaw puzzles!

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger jigsaw puzzle

Posted on 18 August 2024, 21:28