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I want to be hired, but I’m starting a homestead. Bought old farm, cleaning it up, and looking to build an off grid house and buy cattle in the next 6-12 months
Want to have enough land to do some farming and forestry and hobbies that take up space, maybe be self-sufficient so far as that is possible. With Starlink being a thing, can work remotely in a truly remote location.
After seeing "Everything but the Bagel" at Trader Joe's, I thought it was the first spice blend I saw named after a dish. Interesting! If people can have bagels anywhere, what else would people want to have anywhere? I asked my partner what sort of flavors would be familiar to people we knew, and she came up with the triumvirate: Pho, Ramen, and Beef Noodle Soup. And then I proceeded to do nothing about it for months, because I thought making a spice blend was the dumbest idea I've ever had.
Then during a Zoom chat with a friend, he suggested I liked writing code too much, so I should try to sell something without writing code. I suggested, how about spices? He laughed in my face, so here we are. (he was quite supportive right after laughing in my face)
So far, people seem to like it. It's good on eggs, rice, noodles with sesame oil, in olive oil for bread dipping, spinach, and dipped with a super Irish scone from Mary O’s in NYC. I never tried that last one. A customer told me it was good.
And yes, you can use it to make a small bowl of beef soup. If you're intrigued, you can buy a bottle here:
As for life in general, I think I'm moving either back to Michigan or Florida once my lease is up and perhaps buying a house. Ultimate goal is to get a place with a large, sunny roof so I can install solar panels and the proper hardware[0] to have a microgrid so I can have power even if the electricity goes down.
[0]https://newsroom.enphase.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
I'm working on my fourth science fiction novel. Ive been working on it for about four years. The first one took about three months. The second one took about six months. The third one took a bit over a year. It seems I've been challenging myself more as I go.
I've been recording a song I wrote in about 1982. I was in an obscure experimental electronic rock band that no one ever heard of in the 1980s. Nowadays I'm not in a band, but I play better than I used to and can afford much better equipment, so I make a hobby of slowly making recordings that I hope will be better than the ones we made back in the day, and writing new parts and arrangements and sometimes new songs.
I've been working on a presentation server for Common Lisp programs. Someone approached me for help learning how to do some UI work for Lisp programs, and I helped, but then we started tinkering, and now we're trying to figure out how to make a reusable thing that we can both benefit from repeatedly. Also, it might turn out to be handy in my day job.
And being a good friend to my dog and my close relatives.
Working on a way to write Oculus Quest apps in Golang. The entire thing is a tower of yak shaving. Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory.
Okay fourth idea that I forgot earlier and that I'm secretly hoping already exists. Self-hosted iMessage. Basic MMS functionality with an email like protocol for server -> server communication. No one MITM your personal messages. I would love to have my family sending messages through a server I own. Perfectly capable of running on a $5 vps.
To make things even harder, I working to make it IDE-friendly (so it can work for live-coding like in Rust) following the ideas of https://arzg.github.io/lang/.
This is the thing I wish I could dedicate (my end-game is make a replacement for access+excel).
Now, in the job stuff, making a micro-framework similar to django/flask in Rust that also need to sync offline clients, because a week ago suddenly that is a requirement.
Fuuuuun!!!
I’ve also been jamming regularly with electronic musicians all over the world using an app called Endlesss, there is a version for Mac OS that lets you easily feed synth output and so on into it. It’s like a cloud-based live looper that sort of works like git: what you add to the jam are like git commits that publish to everyone else while synced to the beat, so it gets around the issue of network latency. It’s hard to explain but very fun and it’s made me a way better electronic musician.
I have plenty of other projects in the mean time, but that's the big one I've been noodling on for months now. I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I'm absolutely sure I couldn't afford to 'rent' enough drives on my own right now.