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🌫️ Grant Forrest
@gfor.rest
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I like creating things, I am a created thing.

Design Systems @ ShareFile

Making https://biscuits.club (local-first apps: Gnocchi, Trip Tick, Palette) and https://verdant.dev (framework for the same)
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There is something supremely satisfying about successfully enabling users to set up custom DNS in your app.
Screenshot of a modal dialog. It says "Success: recipes.gfor.rest has been validated. If it's not working right, try deleting it and adding it again." There's a button below that says "delete custom domain." It's basically a success screen for registering a custom domain in an app I made.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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To each their own but I definitely prefer exploring and mastering concrete system 'spaces' to latent ones.
A yellow Lego car with an odd piecemeal design featuring a haphazard selection of building techniques. Nonetheless I think it looks coherent and cool. It has functional steering. The same car from the back
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Really dialing in my fried tofu bowl weeknight staple
A rice bowl of crispy fried tofu, charred cabbage, fried shallots, and Bachan's sauce
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This is delicious
Now the risotto is plated and topped with reserved guanciale matchsticks and squash cubes
October 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The finished dish. A pan full of cooked risotto. It's very orange.
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Risotto time
A stovetop laden with two pans of roasted butternut squash and apples, fried guanciale, a pot of chicken broth and a bubbling pan of risotto in progress
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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If I didn't plan on making dinner you're getting a cream sauce pasta with random stuff, that's the rule
Rigatoni with a cream sauce. It's got tiny crushed tomatoes and herbs
October 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Coworker: can you break this PR up? It's nearly 500 lines.

Meanwhile, my side project:
A github PR diff of +14,647, -5,672
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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A sitting cat from behind Now he's lookin at you
September 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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hexagons
August 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Might be my prettiest salmon yet
Three plates of very nicely seared salmon and broccoli
August 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Using the water bottles is an A+ standup bit
A screenshot of James Acaster forcefully ejecting two cans of water off the stage to punctuate his intro rant, from the show "Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999" A screenshot of Chris Fleming midway through going on a complete rampage across half the stage desperately trying to rip the cap from a plastic water bottle like a rabid raccoon, from the clip "St Vincent, Crazy Pete and Kevin Magee" on YouTube
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Braised ribs! Italian style. Made a sauce with the tomato and pepper braising base, not pictured.
A platter of browned ribs with spices and a bit of lemon zest, garnished with fresh oregano.
August 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Stanley Tucci was right on this one
Spaghetti Alla Nerrano (fried zucchini and cheese) alongside some asparagus and speck
July 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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You know it's gonna be good when it looks like a Ghibli film on the stove
July 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I did the charred peach + burrata + speck thing. It was good!
A plate with a charred peach half, burrata, and speck (a thin sliced cured ham). That's really all that's in the dish. The plating is not particularly inspiring.
July 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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New game idea
A screenshot of a word game which is sort of like exquisite corpse, but with a pool of words chosen for you that you must use. The portion of text constructed by the player reads "did she have to go call this new rich chicken boy a idiot ? dumb $%@# that poor bird"
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Breadcrumbs.
A plate with a seared chicken breast topped with pan sauce, capers, Parmesan and toasted breadcrumbs. Beside it are two zucchini boats stuffed with breadcrumbs, parmesan, garlic, and lemon zest and broiled
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I was wondering why the paint was rubbed off here and then I realized
The corner of a wall with a mysteriously bare edge, about 3 inches long and 6 inches off the ground My cat smushing his face into that very spot on the wall
June 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I've avoided this one for weeks because I couldn't find the shapes in the clouds.

Put some white and yellow on the palette, went unconscious, something happened, I think it's done now?

The final strokes on a painting always feels kind of mysterious and magical.
A painting of a cloud front seen from above as it hovers over a deep blue green plain
June 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The syrup is delightfully the same shade as the whiskey
A mason jar of gold colored syrup, a bottle of gold colored whiskey (Suntory), a box of bitters, and some glasses
June 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I (think?) I invented a cocktail, and it's good.

Suntory, homemade basil syrup, local bitters (hibiscus, lavender, oak), lemon
June 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Just started Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and I haven't ordered a physical copy of something this quickly since I read Vattu.
Supergirl flying through a gorgeously illustrated sky carrying Ruthye. Ruthye's narration bubble says, "You see, all that time, she was worried about me."
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Testing a new idea.

Part of the fun of platform building is getting to spin up a new concept on the platform in a day.
June 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Having an affinity for clouds is great. I can look up on any given day, even any hour, and see a massive, unique, beautiful thing to admire.

Especially with the storms lately I've been spending a lot of time in the middle of the street staring.
A massive wave-like cumulous cloud looming over silhouettes of trees. The top is all undulating masses of cottony white, the base is made of glowing orange and gray clusters.
June 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM