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long strips of onion
Monday, January 5 2026
I made further progress on my generic Arduino slave parsing system today. Today the goal was to make it more robust and configurable so that it would be a bit more than just the proof-of-concept that it was. I also added a feature to set various serial modes so that they don't interfere with each other. By late in the day I was contemplating how to make the parser even more generic so that it could just parse any serial stream, not just those containing ASCII-encoded hexadecimal digits (as the SolArk serial stream does). I submitted my proposed changes to ChatGPT as a parse style system that uses the actual bits in the integer value of the parse style itself to turn on or off parsing attributes such as the meaning of an offset and how to determine the value retrieved at the character found at the offset. I even added a bit for swapping between little and big endian, which is a change that actually happened when SolArk rolled out the latest version of their serial stream in October of 2025. But by that point in the evening it was too late to work on such things, so I called it a night.
Earlier, though, I took both dogs for a walk through the abandoned go-cart tracks and then homeward through the scrubby highlands west of the Farm Road. I saw tracks laid down from someone who had been cross-country skiing beginning at the go-cart track and continuing northward; they were probably laid down by our neighbor Tommy, the guy who also mountain bikes in the warmer weather.
Then I proceeded to make one of my low-effort chilis, this time only using one kind of bean ("pink"). Gretchen thought it tasted great, but she complained (for only the second time ever) about the way I like to cut onions, which is latitudinally in a way that produces lots of long strips. It's my preference that food containing lots of pieces be chunky, with chunks ranging in size from bean-size to cubic-inch size. The strips of onion are the result of this world-view. Gretchen, on the other hand, prefers onions be chopped into tiny cubes.
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