Now

Building

Pesto Bot — week six. It now generates a recipe and three pairings from a single ingredient list. The next milestone is letting it remember what you already tried last time.

Writing

A post about the difference between cooking recipes and writing them — they require different mental muscles, and I think most published cookbooks miss this.

Reading

• The Food Lab — Kenji López-Alt. Re-read.
• A Pattern Language — Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein.
• Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro. Bedside book.

Cooking

Pistachio pesto every weekend until I can do it without measuring. Currently 60% of the way there.

Training

Four lifts a week — Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri. Pull / push / lower / accessory. Slowly working back toward a 2× bodyweight deadlift.

Watching

Just finished Severance S2. Started Slow Horses from the top. Always a Wong Kar-wai rewatch open in another tab.