Tim's Baby Back Ribs & BBQ Sauce
Rub with a mix of brown sugar, salt, and spices (smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper, mustard powder, garlic powder… whatever you like) Save some of the spice mix for the BBQ sauce Wrap the ribs tightly in aluminum foil and leave them in the fridge overnight - 24 hours is better, but no longer than that When ready to cook, set your oven to 225 F. While it’s heating up, open the foil and pour in 1/4 - 1/2 can of Coke or Dr. Pepper Reseal the foil and cook in the oven for 6 - 8 hours. Add liquid if it all cooks off and starts to burn. When cooked, drain the liquid into a bowl and save for the sauce. Wrap the ribs in new foil and leave them in the fridge overnight. The next day, baste the ribs with the sauce (see below) and cook them uncovered at 500 F until the sauce begins to bubble. Every time the sauce begins to bubble, take the ribs out and apply another layer of sauce. Do this as many times as you like. I usually do 3 - 5. Let rest for at least 10 minutes, cut, and serve
Sugar Cookie
| Ingredient | Amount |
|---|---|
| salted butter | 1 cup |
| granulated sugar | 1 cup |
| eggs | 2 |
| vanilla extract | 1 tsp |
| almond extract | 1/2 tsp |
| all purpose flour | 3 cups |
| baking powder | 2 tsp |
Sweet Almond Icing
| Ingredient | Amount |
|---|---|
| salted butter (softened) | 1/2 cup |
| powdered sugar | 3 cup |
| almond extract | 1 tsp |
| milk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1JJJihsQ01-3 Tbs |
| neon pink food coloring (optional) | 4 drops |
starshieldd
The starshieldd is the Starshield daemon, which communicates with the Arduino
board and serves the data in more usable JSON formats through different HTTP
APIs. Its main API simply outputs all the values as JSON object and is used by
the Waybar script. It’s secondary API implements the geo provider API used by
Firefox and replies with GPS data.
Waybar
I wrote a small script that I run as a custom Waybar module, which queries the
starshieldd and displays the current environmental readings on my menubar. The
script will work regardless of whether the Starshield is connected or whether
the starshieldd is running, as it will simply output zero values if either of
that should be the case.
GPS
It is possible to make use of the GPS data provided by the Starshield through
the use of starshieldd as geo provider. In Firefox/Firefox-based browsers,
visit about:config and search for geo.provider.network.url. Change the value
of the setting to http://127.0.0.1:3232/location. Make sure that geo.enabled
is set to true. All the other settings don’t matter to much, because the
Starshield daemon won’t care about the clues that Firefox sends, as it solely
returns GPS data from the integrated GPS module.
It is also possible to use Mepo, by modifying its
user pin script so that it makes use of the same geo
provider API that is available to Firefox. Hopefully at some point
Organic Maps will become available through Gentoo portage, at which
point it makes sense to look into how its requesting GPS data and how
starshieldd can be integrated to provide that data.
Why not use gpsd?
Because gpsd has proven to be super unreliable during my initial tests when
directly feeding it the NMEA data from this specific GPS module, as well as two
other u-blox modules, with crashes occurring on a regular basis. Besides it
would have greatly increased the complexity of implementing the Starshield, as
well as the starshieldd, as it’s not easily possible to stream and receive
data alongside of NMEA over a single USB connection.
Sources
You can find the STLs for the case, as well as the source code for Arduino and the Waybar script here. The sources for the daemon (written in Go) can be found here. An example of how I run the daemon can be found in my dotfiles.
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