bw @benjaminwil@tiny.tilde.website

historic fire ~ by bw

2.00 oz dark rum
0.50 oz lime juice (fresh)
+ lots of ice
+ smoked ginger ale (fever tree tonics makes this)

add rum, lime juice to tall glass filled with ice. fill remaining space with smoked ginger ale.

review: my weird take on the dark and stormy in a house without ginger beer. would be nice to add a little more smokey something next time. something like sesame oil?

mexican martinez ~ bw variant

2.25 oz tequila resposado
0.50 oz vermouth blanco
+ some maraschino cherries (for mixing only)
+ 2 dashes of rhubarb butters
+ ice

stir ingredients and strain into a coupe glass. really sorry if a bit of maraschino cherry meat gets in the glass – use a bit of maraschino liqueur instead if you have it.

review: i think blanc vermouth makes everything taste pure. this is a surprisingly interesting drink and i will make more of them.

for those interested, this is an ergodox. the parts list and build instructions are available at ergodox.io

i ordered the diy cable kits from zapcables.com

and i got the multi-layer acrylic case cut from ponoko.com. i won't link to the github repo i got the case design from because... it didn't quite work out for me, and caused me a couple of problems.

3. the acrylic case had the layer names laser-cut into them. i.e. L2 - LEFT HAND. this was not attractive to me so i painted the underside of the first layer, so that it would hide the layer names from the user.

1. i had to de-solder the usb connector because i didn't do a good job the first time. i destroyed the contacts and ended up having to perma plug in the cable to the microcontroller (instead of having a removable cable.

2. the trrrs connectors were too big for the acrylic case holes. so i had to sand off the edges of them.

after accumulating parts slowly over a couple of years, i finally finished building my own keyboard.

it was my first big soldering project, and i made a few serious mistakes that i cannot undo. but it works and it's comfortable.

the most fun part, honestly, was making the usb and trrrs cables.

galliano is a syrupy vanilla liqueur, for the curious

godmother

4.0 oz orange juice
2.0 oz vodka
0.5 oz galliano

fill a tall glass with ice, stir in vodka and orange juice. float galliano on top.

recipe: not enjoying. if i make this again (unlikely?) would try with fresh, de-pulped orange juice instead of the carton stuff i happened to have, which is mega thick. i don’t know why i thought this was an okay idea.

i happened upon intercept-tools for the first time today, which is very handy for remapping laptop keys.

it works in x and wayland environments because it intercepts key events at the udev level. i am DE-promiscuous so this pleases me.

https://github.com/benjaminwil/dotfiles/commit/b414b82e236a5ba3d67a54f6d526b95adda6c12c

whisky daisy ~ bw variation

1.00 oz bourbon
1.00 oz rye whiskey
0.75 oz lemon juice (fresh)
0.50 oz simple syrup
0.50 oz amaretto
+ ice cubes

shake ingredients with ice. strain into coupe glass.

review: i had to use amaretto instead of the traditional orgeat. while what i made is pretty great, i can tell why orgeat would be better. it’s missing a bassy nut flavour. looking forward to spending my bar fund’s money on some orgeat.

flying scot

2.00 oz scotch
1.00 oz red vermouth
0.25 oz simple syrup
+ a dash of bitters
+ ice cubes

shake with ice, strain into old fashioned glass.

review: tasted festive. definitively won’t make again, but the scotch-bite was real and i am sure there is a variant of this drink that i’d be more down for. really, really horrible name. there was nothing “flying” about this drink.

tonight’s cocktail ~ pineapple collins

2.00 oz white rum
1.00 oz pineapple juice
0.25 oz simple syrup
+ sofa water
+ ice cubes

mix first three ingredients into a tall glass filled with ice. stir. pour soda water until glass full.

review: not normally my kind of drink, but pretty refreshing. technically you’re supposed to use caster sugar rather than simple syrup – but i don’t have caster sugar and i think what i ended up with is less sweet overall. 👍

last night's cocktail ~ euphoria

2.0 oz white rum
1.0 oz grapefruit juice (fresh)
0.5 oz curaçao
0.5 oz pineapple juice

stirred well with ice.

review: lame name, but i see where they were coming from – the drink is a bit blue and looks sweet ungarnished. next time, i might change up the rum-grapefruit ratio, but good and hard to screw up if you've got the ingredients.

having trouble confirming that this drink exists online, but i swear it's in this book.

@aparrish i watched your 2018 deconstructconf talk today and just wanted to quickly thank you for it. it’s very good and inspiring to me. thank you ~

been working on my first web scraper.

i haven’t actually got to the scraping part yet, as i’ve been learning how to interact with postgresql without an ORM first, then modelling my DB tables. oh, and making a web UI.

next, i’ll be creating a “preview” interface so i can test what should be scraped before scheduling scrape-jobs.

my code is mega shit, but it’s been pretty fun.

what does it mean that i can't stop thinking about this markup language that barely even exists yet? what does it mean that lost sleep over it last night?

(https://margin.love)

just need to document my best plant before i destroy it