My favorite daily ritual is sitting on my porch in the morning and drinking a cup of coffee. I like to nerd out about making it, and read a lot of blogs about people’s coffee setups and recipes. And they’re good! But many feature expensive equipment, highly precise measurements, and the freshest of ingredients.

Feel free to use it or improve upon it here! I’ve been setting up a lot of random services on personal servers lately and find myself reaching for SysVinit. There are other init systems but I can usually count on init.d to be on a random linux distro (Amazon Linux 1, for example does not have systemd).

I had an eventful 2018 and also I am not super active online, so I thought I’d share things that happened this past year. Nidya and I got engaged! 🎉 Fancy engagement photo Nidya and I met in DC 3 years ago and I am delighted to be marrying her!

Here’s my grandma’s chocolate fudge recipe transcribed from her original recipe card. Ingredients 4 cups sugar 1⁄4 pound butter 1 large can pet milk (condensed milk) Two packages of chocolate chips One jar of marshmallow fluff Instructions Bring sugar, butter, and milk to a boil, and boil for 7 or 8 minutes.

I’ve been running Debian 9 on my laptop for the past few days and it works great! This was my first time booting Linux onto a laptop and it was not too bad. I definitely made some first-time mistakes, but after getting set up the machine has been stable and smooth.

I’m getting off of Twitter, a place I love (!), but am finding too easy to obsess over. I have like five legitimate followers so this shouldn’t be a big deal, but it feels like one. Maybe I’ll come back later.