After a failed sourdough starter attempt, building a kit to measure temperature + track its rise, with a bot to ping me when its time to feed (when it peaks). I’ve got ESP32 + ToF distance + temp/humidity + Telegram bot. Also testing buzz.xyz with goose harness + anthropic API to build the web dashboard. Buzz is fun. All in about $10 (hardware + api). My serendipitous kinda projects.

A starter is ready when it reliably doubles within a predictable window. But it goes through a phase. The first few days, bacteria rules and it stinks so bad. Then it has its moment of silence; you'll think it died. Finally the wild yeast wakes up and the smell shifts from sour to bready. Temperature, humidity, how much you feed all makes a diff.

Testing this, I was quite excited when it started pinging me but I was out all day and v1 fermented so hard it overflowed and coated the sensor. v2 sensor incoming with lessons learnt!

This girl needed some strength training alongside pilates and upgraded from pink dumbbells to pink kettlebells and whoa the burn. So good.

My young twin nephews are at an age where they enjoy chess (and winning) and jamming to Sweet Child of Mine and Come as You Are, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Both are also grade 8 pianists. Fortunately, me attending Slash's concert in the past has made me a cool aunt now (though they have updated my playlist =) ). Told them I'll take them for their first Rock concert when they're older. My sister has done a fantastic job with them. Not easy homeschooling, so many sacrifices involved, but they have a fairly balanced life and turning out to be incredible humans ♥️

Troubled by the state of the world. By what is happening to Iran. The deepening military ties between US and Israel - does this mean US commits genocide in Palestine if the Senate passes it? By the many global, transparent and public corruptions. By the downward economic trend. By super El Niño (I added a huge water tank for my mom's place 2 weeks back, just in case).

But with all things bad, there will also be healing. That's just the way of the world. And I look forward to that day.