Does anyone have recommendations for non-fiction books with a "how it’s made" or behind-the-scenes angle that also work as bedtime reading? Ideally something narrative-driven and informative, not dependent on pictures, with enough flow to read a chapter or section at night. Looking for that mix of interesting detail and relaxing storytelling.
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik might fit the bill? It's about the history and modern use of materials like glass, steel, concrete, etc. in everyday objects. Maybe not for very young kids. Wikipedia has a good summary of the content.
While most of it is pretty relaxing it opens with the author getting stabbed on the subway so watch out for that maybe.
I can't remember exactly, but I think there was some kind of light story element to "The New Way Things Work"
Edit: just noticed the bit about not reliant on pictures, that rules that one out. I recommend it regardless, but maybe not for the exact use-case you're describing
The various Way things Work and similar books have always had a light bit of story, but not really anything thats properly bedtime appropriate, emphasis on the "light." Its generally a bit of flavor text at the start of a section, describing the journey the Mammoth and its companion went on as they move through the books, with things such as the "Digital Domain"
As an FE dev, I despise the work "consistency". Consistency is in the eye of beholder, and when you have a designer, QA, product manager and other people who chip in, that quickly goes out of hand. Wherever you have to find a balance, that something becomes a point of contention.
Absolutely agree. Real recipes, tested by actual cooks (home or professional) with genuine photos, matter far more to me than avoiding messy screens. Does anyone know trustworthy sites that consistently offer recipes meeting these standards?
Seriouseats, Epicurious, Bonappetit, or anything with Kenji Lopez-Alt (for always going the distance in methodically and empirically testing all variations of whatever he is evaluating/developing).
If you want something in the short form video era, I do appreciate Andy Hearnden (andycooks) as he is both concise, consistent and always posts the full recipe in the video descriptions (all too rare).
BA might have gone downhill, it's been a few years since the whole unfair pay debacle, and I know a lot of good people left, and I haven't checked in as much lately.
If you want just recipes that were published in the magazine (that this website is the companion to), you can also filter results to author = Good Food team
If you like Indian food I’d say Swasthi’s Recipes is decent. A lot of what I have seen on there is similar to how my aunties in Punjab n aunties of my friends in UP make food/have taught me to make food.
I cook every day and love trying new things. There's no reason to pick just one, but if I had to, Chef John is my go-to. I stumbled across him when I was trying out pretty much every birria recipe on the internet, and his (yes, a white dude) is by far my favorite. That pattern seems to repeat with his recipes.
Integrity, mainly. Elon is not an honest person and he will use any power at his disposal arbitrarily to silence people he dislikes when he feels like it.
The most absurd example of all is the very recent case where Elon pretended to be a pro gamer and got caught. A streamer called Asmongold covered the topic on his stream, which triggered Elon to arbitrarily remove Asmongold's verified checkmark and remove his gaming badge. Considering the low stakes of this matter I find the actions ridiculous and don't trust Elon with having basically admin access to the platform at all.
I've also heard plenty of horror stories about the ruthless way the engineering in X is currently done, often carelessly breaking stuff. However I have to point out that the service is and has been far far more stable than the "haters" have predicted back when Elon took over and fired all those people.
A while ago, I developed a decibel meter designed like a traffic light for a preschool classroom. The device visually represents different noise levels by changing colors and can also be manually operated via IR remote. I've shared my project, along with several suggestions for its educational use in the classroom, on this here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/186425#profileId-205268
I've also made something similar. It was originally for the Prusa Mini, but I've updated it with a beta that accepts an arbitrary array of probe points: https://bbbenji.github.io/PMSBLM/beta/
Seems like now, predators due to some padding with the number text, the bar chart is still not proportional (but in the other direction. 98 should be further out)
I'm aware, this was actually an issue prior to my PR as well, but less obvious. I think this would need some more defensive CSS to maybe shift the label around to the inside of the bar? Or perhaps the labels are unnecessary (it is a p90 of an average of a ton of lighthouse scores after all, not like the number quantifies to much)
