Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!
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I just finished adding a feature to https://port87.com/ that lets you turn message authentication requirements completely off for a label.
I did this specifically because all of my email accounts will reject email from my home server’s disk monitoring software because it’s not set up to send email “correctly” (no DKIM or SPF, no MX record on its return path).
I figured since I made my own email service, and you can have setting per address (each label has its own address), it would be easy to add this feature. It was not that easy. One of the plugins in the server I use (Haraka) would reject email if it failed its check. I contributed a PR to Haraka to make the failure on that check optional. Yay open source!
That’s a pretty cool concept.
I’ll probably was my truck and then go buy some baseboard for work tomorrow. Might go to my camp spot to sit and cook by a fire in the evening.
I’ve been recovering from bottom surgery, still on my first week of being home from the hospital. Moving around has been hard, so I spent today watching TV (Dropout’s GameChanger and Invincible S4), speaking to friends online or who visit, and doing some hand sewing. Well, plus my surgery maintenance.
Congratulations! I recommend Baldur’s Gate Three and Potionomics for good recovery games.
Congrats on the surgery! Recovering is rough, but it’s so much better after you’re healed. Definitely take it easy, and don’t forget to drink water. 😄
took kiddo to a birthday party at the museum, did therapy, rode bikes to the park, bought ice-cream it was alright i guess .
Chilling after a long day of programming. Piano music helps to destress from the work.
Hot sweaty, course 2 of 3 about entering a structure. A good day all in all.
Working on the customisation of my homebrew arcade machine. Solved a lot of problems this weekend and now it is the fun part. After the game overlays are set, I get to try and get the light guns mapped (without conflicts with the spinners hopefully)
My mom, whom I haven’t seen in almost a month, is staying with me for a few days. So, a majority of my day was driving her around and taking her shopping. But, we had a nice lunch, watched The Dark Knight, and she cooked me one of my favourite meals. It was nice to get away from work for a bit and see the sun for once so I had a good day.
It’s not too many pancakes, but a bit similar I am making too many Rotis today. There are many types of (stuffed) flatbread, today dahlpuri roti. I am making a bunch for the freezer as well.
Takes quite a bit of work, making the stuffing and all, so I already made the Doks Masala (Surinam style duck curry) and Madame Jeanette pepper sauce late last night to go with the Roti.
Also traditional to go with roti and doks masala is boiled eggs, patato masala and long beans. Scoop that stuff up with the roti, no fork or spoon needed, bare hands. I am looking forward serving this tonight.
I went looking for recipes, but ended up with a history lesson as well about Indian people in the Caribbean. Very interesting, and the food sounds delicious!
I make roti frequently, but whenever I try to stuff them, I get too overzealous and they all poke out and make a mess. 😄
Heh, I posted about that history a while back. In the Netherlands we have a large community of Indonesian, Dutch West Indies and Surinam people, all with wonderful culture, music and food.
I used to overstuff my rotis and have the same result as you, but after much practice got the hang of it. I also make flabreads that are much easier to make, like parathas and chapatis. Also delicious.
Cheers!
I love all the quick breads, since I can make them up quickly whenever something calls for some. It’s also fun to mix in random ingredients to suit my mood. Breads are some of my favorite foods in general.
I can’t understand why people still get so hung up on immigration. We have the rich and modern cultures we have because we haven’t stayed in one place and kept to ourselves. We move about and share the best of our ideas with each other and find ways to make even greater things. Food, music, stories, science, and so much more. Never have I learned something about another group of people and felt I was worse off than before. Even if it isn’t something I would enjoy for me, it shows me something I had never considered before.
Hear hear.
We Dutch can enjoy these cultures now because of the ruthless exploitation of Indonesia and (North) African country’s for centuries and there are Dutch people still having a hard time showing immigrants any respect or hospitality, and where I live in growing numbers. It is disheartening but I am glad not to be like them.
Most of my cooking skills comes from learning from friends and family with Indo, Surinam and North African backgrounds. My sisters are all married to people from non Dutch cultures, so I am lucky there too. Also we live near the largest importer/distributor of Asian, Indonesian and Surinam foods in Europe. Very lucky.
My mother is a racist though, we don’t see her.
I’m in the US, so we learn (some) about African people that were brought here and to the Caribbean. It is terrible what happened, but they came up with many great things to help them get through. They brought with them foods, music, and traditions that now feel engrained in the greater society here, regardless of one’s origins.
We still have a very long way to go on fixing people’s biases, but many people have much more foreign influence in their daily lives than they might be aware of.
With pending uncertainty of the effects of climate change, who knows who the next group of immigrants will be, and those people should hope that they have shown good treatment to those seeking help in the past.
I’ll continue sorting LEGO bricks. I’m almost done with Light Bluish Gray, of which I currently have about a cubic meter (probably even more) in the living room. I’ve got half of that again already sorted in storage.
U building a Lego ocean or something?
I’m currently building a moon base. At the moment it has four square meters, but there are plans for ten plus. I just moved a large box of 16x16 plates in gray to storage which will not survive the next expansion. If you build on such scale, boxes of bricks vanish fast.
The last module is 1x1m and ate about 10-12000 bricks.
Other projects in planning is “Porco Rosso” which is a restaurant located on a hill, a proper “Home Alone” house (not the small play version as published by LEGO, but built after the real house plans), a pirate island city, and, of course, my LEGO city.
Was a pretty stunning reply in my inbox after just checking the post title and the first sentence xD Nearly as impressive after going further in! Any progress pics? Best of luck!
Last displayed state in Vogelsang 2026, and a first for most modules. It has progressed since then.
Nice :) Do post the final result!
Laundry, playing a few games and funny enough making too many pancakes! Well, just enough pancakes really, but any amount of pancakes at 10:30pm is probably too many Lol The craving struck so pancakes I must make!
Just got back from our camp where I’m doing renovations. It’s only accessible by boat so all supplies have to be loaded in the trailer, brought to the boat, loaded in the boat, brought to the camp, then unloaded onto the dock. Makes for slow going, but the peace and beauty out there make up for it. Today, I’m going to church, picking up groceries for the week, then heading back to camp.
Heading out to a building supply store, Kent, to buy a closure for the storm door.
Having wings and diced oven roasted sweet potatoes for lunch. Rice crispy squares for dessert.
Maybe changing my sister over to all-seasons this afternoon.
Breakfast time. Than gotta go to the social centre to prep it for its 12birthday.
The type of breakfast people in movies would eat one bean sprout from and off they go.
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Enjoy your day
I find the light and color here to be extremely pleasant to look at.
Thanks, I surely do. I believe human brains are set to feel good around wood, greans, earthy colours so that would check out.
A deep sleep.
