Work Log, April 30 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Peter Dragos

Today

  • Made some seitan. 500g VWG, 50g universal seasoning, 650g water, blasted in the food processor for a few minutes. I put it in the larger of the sous vide bags that I have. To date, I’ve got about a 50% failure rate on these after pressure cooking; today, I couldn’t even get the bag sealed in the chamber sealer. There was too much air and the bag kept mechanically pushing itself away from the seal bar. I ended up splitting the ~1kg into two blocks. One successfully went through the cooker without failure. The other I’ve frozen; I’ll see whether freezing helps with the sealing.
  • I spent an ungodly amount of time trying to get tailwind to work, and doing some design experimentation.
  • Learned how to write and apply overrides in nixpkgs. I noticed an issue with tailwind_4 in nixpkgs that wasn’t actually a tailwind issue. But I went through and made a useWatchman option anyways, before realizing that it was misplaced regardless.
  • Dance class. I was
  • Played chess

Tomorrow

  • More tailwind
  • Hopefully more GHCJS
  • Moving a desk and my desktop.

Shoutouts

Musmush just put out their 2024 aftermovie. I’ll be helping set up sound at their build camp end of May this year.