skinnylatte

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

Not going to cw this because I think it’s important everyone knows that stuff like this happens.

skinnylatte, 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

@irfan I just gave a talk today about how 11ty was the thing I learned that made sense without the gibberish hehe

It works even if you don’t understand the node stuff under the hood (you don’t need it)

I built everything just in html markdown css and I learned nunjucks for templating

The community is also VERY helpful and fun

skinnylatte, 4 hours ago

@irfan 11ty has been better than almost every node / js tool like this I’ve used because you really don’t need it that much. A lot of stuff is done out of the box (including image transforms and stuff) and I really only touched JS in the config files

Quite the opposite of the thing you’re describing (which I was happy to find out, coz I don’t like that either!)

skinnylatte, 4 hours ago

@irfan but Django is great too!

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

@irfan they’re very similar. Most of us using 11ty started with Jekyll.

You can give it a try! I really like this resource

https://11ty.rocks/posts/create-your-first-basic-11ty-website/

And if you hashtag it, lots of useful folks around here as well

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

@irfan also @bobmonsour runs https://11tybundle.dev which is a great way to get all the blog posts about anything relating to it

With other tools I usually start with a starter then don’t do anything coz I can’t figure it out, but here I was able to build sites from scratch really with just html and css

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

@categulario gracias!

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

@voxofgod adding to the list!

skinnylatte, 4 hours ago

I’m quite serious about this and will put together a small version of this maybe at Golden Gate Park :)

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago

@scott various jet boils maybe

There are all kinds of travel tea sets

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago (edited 6 hours ago)

(I used to meet backpackers in Thailand and Indonesia who were not used to the food. They often had very colonialist views on it too, right down to ‘there’s no yogurt here why don’t people eat it yogurt is healthy’ to ‘people here don’t eat veg’, so I feel quite strongly about this!)

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

In southern Chinese food, we cook with so many types of vegetables. There’s celtuce, whose leaves you can cook like spinach and whose stem works like asparagus. There’s kohlrabi. There’s all kinds of gai lan and bok choy. There’s taro leaves. There’s sweet potato leaves. There’s water cress. It’s just different from veg in other cultures. There’s soups. There’s steamed stuff. There’s many veg in a dish with diff textures. Never roasted (we never use ovens)

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

There’s at least 10 types of tofu (types, not tofu dishes). There’s hundreds of tofu dishes. There are so many types of veg soups. Often with pork, chicken, seafood, Chinese herbs, even with alcohol. Most of them have more veg than meat, but the meat is often essential in specific dishes for flavor (soups that are boiled for hours).

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

The reverse of this food culture shock is, when I ask my friends from Indonesia or Malaysia or Singapore how their trip to Europe was, they almost all say, beautiful countries.. way too much bread and potato (I can only do 3 days of it)

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@toridas_ one time I tried to explain the anti non veg Hindutva stuff and vegan Europeans thought I was making it up :)

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@toridas_ yes, and to their mind, veg could ONLY be moral and pure. And if violence is imposed upon people for eating meat, too bad for them and yay for the animals.

Which is completely at odds with the mandatory vegetarianism as a tool for severe violence and oppression that I know and have experienced and seen.

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@toridas_ very much in alignment with the religious fascists

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@KraftTea I love wo Chong. They also deliver fresh tofu to the Vietnamese grocers near me in the TL so I don’t go far. I go in my pajamas !

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@sister_ratched well if I’m there I’ll just eat seafood without any bread or potato, nonstop, every day!

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@mculbertson I think the severe lactose intolerance of a lot of East Asians in N America actually comes from hormones in the milk, not from lactose. That’s been true for me anyway. Lots of people do like milk but it’s just not the same way like in W or N Europe

skinnylatte, 6 hours ago

@KraftTea I go to that one! I think pandemic era made the supply weird. But I do try to go to Chinatown when I can. Also venturing into making my own!