I bake all my own bread, mostly due to food allergies but also because there is nothing better than a fresh loaf of bread just out of the oven.
My experience and conclusion was largely the same as the author. I found the brevity of many recipes frustrating, which led me to study the details of bread making.
The type of four, how much yeast, salt and water. How the water amount varies for so many reasons in a home kitchen.
Making 4 loafs a fortnight gives plenty of opportunity for iteration and learning. And over time I was able to develop a good understanding of dough hydration and how that affects the end product, and how it can make kneading and handling the dough easier or harder. There is a sweet spot.
This also led me to adding oil to a dough. Which acts to keep the gluten chains from getting too long and chewy, thus making the dough short.
It’s also how you make a great pizza dough.
From there I started experimenting with different flours, because I had to if I wanted bread. Running low on bread flour I added semolina, and also made a pure semolina loaf.
The main thing I’ve learned is there is a lot of leeway in the recipes that still produces tasty food. I’ve made some incredible and some woeful loafs that all taste great.
I still prefer specific recipes in metric, but I find more and more I’m reading into what the ratio of ingredients is doing and why.
For those who don’t know (which seems to be the entire comment section at the moment), the new show is/was not a remake, they intended to follow on from the existing series.
I was pretty optimistic after watching the announcement [0] that this would be a decent show.
Here’s hoping they’ve developed it enough that they can shop it around.
Until such a point where have agents not trained on human language or programming languages, I think something that’s also really good for people as well.
- one obvious way to do things
- locality of reasoning, no spooky action at a distance
- tests as a first class feature of the language
- a quality standard library / reliable dependency ecosystem
- can compile, type check, lint, run tests, in a single command
- can reliably mock everything, either with effects or something else, such that again we maintain locality of reasoning
The old saying that a complex system that works is made up of simple systems that work applies.
A language where you can get the small systems working, tested, and then built upon.
Because all of these things with towards minimising the context needed to iterate, and reducing the feedback loop of iteration.
Contrary to (seemingly) everyone I liked the Touch Bar MacBooks. I barely ever used the function row, but the software that came by default wasn’t the best. But pock.app was perfect. It put alt-tab visually on my keyboard.
My daily driver is now a Mac mini, and Touch Bar MacBooks time has passed.
The stream deck replaces that functionality really well.
If you don’t have one, but think it could be helpful—it’s probably worth a shot. There’s nothing like a dedicated for a specific action.
They exist, and there’s usually a mourning period when you have to truly grapple with understanding things really are harder for us.
“a failure to cultivate habits of discipline” is an _outcome of ADHD_. Executive dysfunction is preventing the cultivation of habits, not to say it’s impossible but they’re usually connected.
A useful trick here is to accomodate the lacking parts of the ADHD brain, with external consequences and external timekeeping.
External accountability and consequences such as a gym buddy (who you don’t want to let down), or needing to get your work done to get paid (so you can eat).
And external timekeeping is critical because we are time-blind [0]. Whether it’s a calendar, setting reminders, etc.
“People with ADHD know what to do, but they can’t do what they know.”
My experience and conclusion was largely the same as the author. I found the brevity of many recipes frustrating, which led me to study the details of bread making.
The type of four, how much yeast, salt and water. How the water amount varies for so many reasons in a home kitchen.
Making 4 loafs a fortnight gives plenty of opportunity for iteration and learning. And over time I was able to develop a good understanding of dough hydration and how that affects the end product, and how it can make kneading and handling the dough easier or harder. There is a sweet spot.
This also led me to adding oil to a dough. Which acts to keep the gluten chains from getting too long and chewy, thus making the dough short.
It’s also how you make a great pizza dough.
From there I started experimenting with different flours, because I had to if I wanted bread. Running low on bread flour I added semolina, and also made a pure semolina loaf.
The main thing I’ve learned is there is a lot of leeway in the recipes that still produces tasty food. I’ve made some incredible and some woeful loafs that all taste great.
I still prefer specific recipes in metric, but I find more and more I’m reading into what the ratio of ingredients is doing and why.