That’s what I like about Ruby ORMs. They did all the conversion for you, and you could have SQLite on your dev box, Postgres on the test server and MySQL on the annoying production host that wouldn’t run anything else.

This was 18 years ago though.

Wouldn’t he still be hovering if he’d missed the landing?

Yup, but I never bother with separating the eggs, just make the batter before preheating the waffle iron, letting the batter sit for 5-10 minutes makes for fluffy waffles, though we’ve also switched to oat milk, which might behave differently too (I don’t recommend oat creamer though, made them too floppy, thought they did get a crispy layer after 30 seconds out of the iron.

I have waffles memorized:

1.75 cups flour, 1tbsp baking powder, 0.25tsp salt, 2 eggs, 1.75 cups milk (creamy oat milk actually is even better), 0.5 cup canola oil.

We do fast for dinner once a week and this is my sons favorite, and my wife can’t eat dairy.

That’s how I read it too. More like a fully encrypted anonymized trackerless BitTorrent client (or even more like Hotline (a pair of sort of FTP/chat/bbs client and server apps) for the older pirates in the audience.