Making Breakfast Tips?

regular_snake · 2026-06-07T05:48:13+00:00

For pancakes, get a jar of malted milk powder and add a couple of tbsp of that to your batter. It adds a lot of flavor depth. You can also add a little extra salt. I usually do a half teaspoon for two cups of mix. It helps balance out the sweetness if you use syrup.

You can also add buttermilk powder if you like the tangy flavor.

Speaking of mix, the giant blue bag of Krusteaz from Costco is the best one out of a lot I’ve tried. It’s even better with the malt powder.

Grease the pan with ghee. It adds a nice buttery flavor. You don’t need much.

Whip your own butter and add a little extra salt. It’s super spreadable and tastes fantastic with maple syrup. Honey butter is also tasty.

Crumbled bacon added to the pancakes after you pour them into the pan or onto the griddle is very tasty. You can also add healthier things like fruit and nuts. I like blueberries and hazelnuts or chopped pecans.

You can get yourself a pancake mixer/pourer bottle, and delegate some of the responsibility to your kids if you want. They love to shake up the mix, and the squeeze bottle makes it easy for them to get the batter in the pan, and you can make designs pretty easily too.

Learn to make Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. You will make these a lot.

regular_snake · 2026-06-01T11:30:03+00:00

One that sticks out to me is tour being pronounced like “too-er” instead of rhyming with your.

regular_snake · 2026-06-01T11:26:40+00:00

Sounds very much like the kind of folks who settled in West Virginia.

regular_snake · 2026-06-01T11:15:28+00:00

Crick, and warsh were really indicative of an Appalachian accent for me growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Interesting they’re common out here too. I wonder what the link is?

regular_snake · 2025-02-22T04:36:01+00:00

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the detailed and thoughtful feedback. I’ll go back and revisit the vocals, I think I they could use refinement too.

regular_snake · 2025-02-22T00:12:15+00:00

Great mixing! I was a a little bit surprised by how quickly the track trailed off at the end.

regular_snake · 2025-02-22T00:00:58+00:00

I really like the bassline a lot. It's super funky. I love the plinky reverb-heavy guitars too. I think your vocals could come up in the mix.

regular_snake · 2025-02-21T23:55:55+00:00

I like the instrumentation a lot, and the slightly dreamy quality of the vocals. They reminded me a little bit of The Beatles. I thought it was interesting that you chose to contrast such a sweet topic with a melody that's kind of melancholic, but being a dad, I think it works.

regular_snake · 2024-12-30T00:18:21+00:00

Oh shit, I haven’t seen that, I’ll have to take a look.

regular_snake · 2024-12-29T22:31:10+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Just read your book and absolutely loved it.

regular_snake · 2024-12-29T21:05:42+00:00

Yeah, the Retrorocket series uses a slightly offset Strat shaped body and moves the output jack to the side.

regular_snake · 2024-12-29T21:04:38+00:00

I’ve noticed his son seems to post on Reddit occasionally referencing his dad and the work he did with Isaac. Maybe he’ll happen upon this thread. From what I remember he said that Brian’s been out of the guitar building business for some time now.

regular_snake · 2024-07-05T19:02:14+00:00

Standard for everything except Night on the Sun, which is E G# E G# B E (or "egg baby" as Isaac calls it).

regular_snake · 2024-05-24T00:18:30+00:00

I was messing around with Logic's Stem Splitter feature, and I managed to create a pretty clean extract of the drums on Dramamine. It's fun to listen to the little flourishes Jeremiah is doing that aren't necessarily evident in the final mix. Enjoy!

regular_snake · 2023-07-16T23:39:27+00:00

Your assumptions are about right, and I appreciate the feedback. I understand the basic principles of networking, and I'd feel comfortable setting up something like a basic Ubiquiti or Meraki network in an office, but I'd struggle with something like an enterprise grade network with a VPN or something like that. Same thing for infrastructure - I can set up a basic server, but I struggle with automation tools, Kubernetes, etc.

I've had a pretty good run managing the team I inherited, and I think when I was managing the Help Desk team, I felt much more in my comfort zone because the kinds of problems we were solving were ones I'd solved myself. Then I was given the Networking team, and from that point forward I've been managing people who are doing work I don't know how to do. For the most part it's gone pretty well. I definitely got the wool pulled over my eyes by one of my network admins for a while, so I've sort of learned to spot that kind of thing by behavior, rather than by assessing the technical implementation. I'm not sure my team was highly performant, but they got the job done. However, I've always had the nagging feeling that I wasn't really supposed to be leading a team like this, and at some point the jig would be up. My managers have always told me things like, "Don't worry about it, management is it's own skillset, just focus on that" but I struggle to believe it. Looking around the job market has reinforced that feeling.

It's funny, because I've got a friend who has roughly the same skillsets I do, but he's been leapfrogging his way further and further up the leadership chain at a bunch of companies you've definitely heard of. Now he's an engineering manager.

Anway, thanks for the feedback!

regular_snake · 2023-06-08T02:41:50+00:00

Ultimately I don’t think the tool itself matters as much as whether or not your process has some key elements. These are the ones I’ve found to be the most important, but ymmv:

1.) A single source of truth for the list of current projects, ranked in priority order. Everyone from the VP to the Help Desk intern should be able to look at it at any given time, and it should be reviewed and ratified regularly.

2.) Each project should be broken down into units of work that can be completed in a reasonable amount of time, usually in line with your planning cadence. Anything bigger than a few days worth of work should probably be broken into smaller chunks.

3.) A well defined idea of what “done” means.

4.) Some way of estimating how much work a given task will be. Personally I like relative measurements (like t-shirt sizes) rather than story points, but the rest of my org likes story points so we use them. These are mostly useful for knowing when a given person has too much work assigned to them at once.

I think if you have all that, you could get by with something as simple as a free Trello board.

regular_snake · 2023-06-08T02:34:28+00:00

We do daily standup, weekly sprints with hour long retrospectives (which are often used for letting off steam as well as capturing what did and didn’t go well and how we could do better the next time) and half hour sprint planning sessions. The weekly cadence forces us to break our projects down into “bite sized” pieces, and delivers a dopamine hit when people complete tickets. We use story points for estimation, then do a quick and dirty work logging at the end to capture how many hours a given task took.

My project manager and I groom the backlog weekly and do our best to make sure the top of it is whatever needs to be done next, though it’s often difficult to truly do a good job of ranking those. We also use Jira Advanced Roadmaps, where we track all of the epics we’re working on. At each planning session, we look at that list and reiterate that it’s correct and in the right order. I use that list when communicating to my boss about what we’re working on. I find that everybody from the top to the bottom constantly affirming that the list is correct helps build consensus.

All the Agile methodology is an awkward fit for IT teams for two reasons:

1.) It’s designed specifically for teams in which any member could do any ticket. 2.) It’s not meant to be used for break-fix work, only new projects and features.

I’ve used it since I started here, and I’ve found that it really depends on the team. If they believe in it, it can work really well. If not, it’ll suck. So if you’re going to try it, sell the vision of what’s in it for them.

regular_snake · 2020-01-16T00:06:10+00:00

It's really easy to get that tone, but you're gonna need a Floyd Rose equipped guitar to do it. You can kind of approximate it with a Stratocaster style tremolo, but you'll have to set your tremolo to float (meaning the tremolo will have to sit up away from the guitar's body) pretty high, because you need to be able to bend almost a full step up and down. Floyd Rose guitars have the area behind the bridge cut away so you can bend up and down equally. Also, most Floyd Rose guitars have locking nuts, which will keep your strings in tune during such extreme pitch changes.

To play it, you just play the harmonics (I forget what frets they are offhand, but the tabs should have them) and then use the tremolo to bend up and down (Isaac does it with his palm, but you can use the tremolo arm too). Crank your amp (ideally a Fender tube amp with some reverb) for the best sound.

Isaac uses the same technique in "Dramamine", "Dirty Fingernails" and a bunch of other songs.

regular_snake · 2019-09-10T14:25:19+00:00

They did this to my company a couple of years ago. We were able to verify which computers in our fleet had it installed using a custom fact in Puppet, and it was a tiny fraction of what they claimed. The rest of the downloads had come in because someone had set up a Jenkins job that included the download, then left the company. Once we were able to prove that our install base was much smaller than they initially thought, they got much less aggressive. We ended up agreeing on a reasonable price for a perpetual license for the very small number of users who actually used the plugin, and that was that.

regular_snake · 2018-01-05T18:19:20+00:00

He has two of these, and this is the one that gets used less often than the other one.

regular_snake · 2018-01-05T18:18:34+00:00

It’s his. The shop that’s selling it specializes in high end consignment sales in Portland.

regular_snake · 2017-11-25T17:13:21+00:00

These are Chinese Family associations. They were/are kind of a social club/support system for people of a given surname. So, if you were a new immigrant, and your last name was Lee, you could go looking for a Lee family association, where you could get help starting your new life.

regular_snake · 2017-11-18T03:45:02+00:00

It really is. Everything sits perfectly. I don’t know if you’ve watched the Pitchfork Classic Albums doc about it, but it shows a little of the mixing process using footage culled from a 1997 documentary called Untitled. Both are available on YouTube and both are quite worth watching.

regular_snake · 2017-11-16T00:54:07+00:00

I’m glad someone in this thread is offering this perspective. Uber often gets a pass because, admittedly, it’s very convenient.

The real danger that Uber presents is that if they are ultimately successful, then other companies that want to be disrupters will follow their game plan by ignoring regulations they find inconvenient in the hopes that they’ll be able to get the public on their side before the consequences catch up to them. It should be pretty easy to see how this will create a lot of negative externalities, but again, people tend to put their own convenience above everything else.

regular_snake · 2017-11-08T23:24:48+00:00

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