- Bought and smoked a pork butt. Served with homemade corn tortillas.
- Made new batch of cinnamon oat milk.
- Transferred banana hibiscus kombucha to the fridge after second fermentation. Was tasty, but not as sweet as usual because it fermented for longer than usual due to vacation. Lots of bubbles.
- Made new batch of pecan butter. This one was toasted (350F/5m), with touches of cinnamon, salt, and maple.
- Paid outstanding bill from Dr. Levy.
- Notes from the hawaiian imu:
- You’re not smoking the meat, you’re heating up rocks and then using them as the single heat source while insulated.
- Dig a pit. Wood on bottom. Rocks above that.
- Burn mesquite wood for a couple hours until the rocks are hot. Almost all of the flavor from the smoke is lost to the atmosphere.
- Banana stalks above the rocks.
- Pig wrapped in chicken wire and place on banana stalks. We only salted (no rub), and it was right before (not enough time to brine).
- Tea leaves above pig for flavor. Banana leaves above tea leaves for insulation.
- Wet burlap above banana leaves for humidity.
- Tarp above burlap for water insulation. Dirt above tarp for heat insulation.
- Come back in 8-12 hours. No probes!
- Every cut was pulled, not just the shoulders. Big pans of full-pig pulled pork.
- All around, a pretty archaic process. Almost all could be replaced with a barrel, just a metal cylinder for smoking. The biggest crimes are definitely the wasted smoke, no brine/rub, and the lack of closed-loop temperature control.
- It came out pretty tasty still. Hogs are delicious. Not fall off the bone tender – I expect it was probably at ~180F. The shoulderblades and hip bones were actually kinda hard to remove, which doesn’t happen at 200+.
- No smoke ring, as expected because the pig wasn’t exposed to wood fire.
- No bark. No convection. This is particularly tough because the hog is not a homogeneous cut, each region needs and saw different temps (uncontrolled).
- c10k was a challenge proposed to web developers a few decades ago: create a web server that can handle 10,000 clients at once. http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html. nginx was written in response to this challenge!
- Reworked the docker composition for bmahlstedt.com: https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/bmahlstedt.com/issues/9.
- Mongod was not an enabled unit on my machine, so when the laptop died on vacation, systemd did not restart the service on return.
- postgres default is 5432, mongo is 27017. Remember that you’ll get binding address-in-use errors if you have the db running on the host and you try to start the container. Kill it on the host with `sudo systemctl stop <>` or change the port.
- Added the whole shebang. Dockerfiles for each container build, compose to bring all the services together, makefile to wrap the common service start commands.