Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
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#2Github is a very good blogging platform- easy access to all the files, issues are the comments section, stars are likes, people can fork and make PRs, mentions the date on top and uses markdown. what more could you ask for?
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#32018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401
I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin). Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves for any kind of hot chili recipes ;)
I think it was great, I guess I’ll make it again this year.
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#4I just did a batch of fermented hot sauce using home grown chillis. It's only my 3rd batch. The first batches I left for 4 weeks, but I let this last batch ferment for 10 weeks.
The wait was worth it, it's a beautiful batch.
Love the idea of using carrots though. Going to try that next batch.
Thanks for sharing
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#5Love the idea of using github!
I have one recipe that involves mango, pineapple, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, etc. It comes out really sweet and cinnamon, ginger and chilli combo plays nicely on the tongue.
My first home made sauce was done with tomatoes. Didn't really like that as it was just hot ketchup.
Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
#62018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401 I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin). Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves…
Ha me too! I couldn’t believe that burn and how long it lasted. I soaked my hands in milk as placebo one day.
We had a kid just after making it and therefore loads of visitors for meals - everyone commented on how good it was and wanted some. I’m gonna make it again.
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#7Github is a very good blogging platform- easy access to all the files, issues are the comments section, stars are likes, people can fork and make PRs, mentions the date on top and uses markdown. what more could you ask for?
I'd say that it's about as much wiki as it is blog, because the timeline feature that separates a blog from a pre-blog "homepage" is hidden to the point of being missing.
Makes me wonder how an "alternate history wikipedia" would be like, where pages had explicit maintainers and the cotton fork model. The process for selecting the current leading fork would obviously be a huge source of endless drama, but I'd expect that this would end up a much better "reader experience" than the current model of edit wars where the uninitiated can't really tell an edit history with the occasional trolling/untrolling loop from an outright battleground.
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#8I'm in the process of making Polish pickles in brine, and normally share my recipes through google docs... or a blog on which I had spent way too much time yak shaving, because there are only 2-3 recipes in it (it was fun to code though(?)).
In other words, I might steal this format!
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#9There is an argument to be made that a recipe is code, it just runs on a different platform
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#10My most starred repo has no code in it too!
A few years ago I bought an AnyTone AT-D868UV ham radio. As with any software-managed device, there were a few issues. I wanted a place to keep track of these problems for my own purposes. So I thought "GitHub Issues!"
https://github.com/geary/AnyTone-D868UV
I added a couple dozen of the problems I'd run into. And then it took a life of its own. Some people thought it was an official AnyTone support channel (despite my disclaimer). That's bound to happen.
The fun part was when people started an issue on how to upgrade a D868UV to a D878UV and get all the new features.
https://github.com/geary/AnyTone-D868UV/issues/59
Of course this was kind of an insane project unless you look at it from the point of a ham operator: radio hacking is fun!
Now about the gloves and chili.
Around 1974 I decided to stir fry a very hot dish of chiles and eggplant.
I didn't use gloves or a fume hood or any of those smart precautions.
Midway through the stir fry I noticed my forehead was burning.
But I ate the dish and it was delicious.
The next morning I woke up and my fingers were numb!
I went into survival mode and quickly realized that what I needed to do was eat a lot of yogurt, right then and there.
And it worked. I still have my fingers!