Implement now page, add new post "Patience"
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key: About
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order: 3
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# About this website, and the person who made it.
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<p class="page-block nodropcap">My name is Nathan. I'm a prolific vegan home cook, classical trombonist, a <abbr title="Free/Libre Open Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> enthusiast, daily GNU/Linux user and unabashed <a href="https://kde.org/">KDE</a> stan, speaker of subpar elementary Spanish, incense appreciator, writer, electronics hobbyist, designer, programmer, music producer, print lover, and human with too many interests and too little time. <br /><br />This is my personal website and blog, a little corner of the internet where I can talk about whatever I like without worrying about maintaining a 'personal brand,' or constraining subject matter to those topics which might help advance my career or establish me as a 'thought leader' should I choose to write about them. I'm here to express myself as a human and have fun writing about topics I enjoy. If you'd like to learn more about my professional accomplishments and work, I'll link my professional website here soon.</p>
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# Who am I, Anyway?
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## About Nathan Upchurch and the Website He Made.
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I'm a prolific vegan home cook, classical trombonist, a <abbr title="Free/Libre Open Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> enthusiast, daily GNU/Linux user and unabashed <a href="https://kde.org/">KDE</a> stan, speaker of subpar elementary Spanish, incense appreciator, writer, electronics hobbyist, designer, programmer, music producer, print lover, and human with too many interests and too little time.
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<h2>Contact</h2>
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This is my personal website and blog, a little corner of the internet where I can talk about whatever I like without worrying about maintaining a 'personal brand,' or constraining subject matter to those topics which might help advance my career or establish me as a 'thought leader' should I choose to write about them. I'm here to express myself as a human and have fun writing about topics I enjoy. If you'd like to learn more about my professional accomplishments and work, I'll link my professional website here soon.
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<p>If you would like to say something nice, ask a question, or simply follow me on the fediverse, <a href="../me">here's where you can find me</a>.
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If you would like to say something nice, ask a question, or simply follow me on the fediverse, <a href="../me">here's where you can find me</a>.
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<h2>Privacy / Technical</h2>
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<p>This website is made with <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/">11ty</a>, <a href="https://www.gent.media/manrope">Manrope</a>, <a href="https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair">Playfair Display</a>, and plain-old HTML & CSS. I don't collect any of your personal information, full-stop. All webfonts, icons, and images are hosted locally (these things can sometimes be used to <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-google-uses-fonts-to-track-what-users-do-online-and-sell-data-to-advertisers-12496552.html">track people across the internet</a>). I use <a href="https://umami.is/">umami</a>, an open source, privacy-respecting analytics tool, to see how many people visit this website. Miss when the internet was fun? Find more interesting personal blogs at <a href="https://blogroll.org">blogroll.org</a>, or <a href="https://ooh.directory/">ooh.directory</a>.
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This website is made with <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/">11ty</a>, <a href="https://www.gent.media/manrope">Manrope</a>, <a href="https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair">Playfair Display</a>, and plain-old HTML & CSS. I don't collect any of your personal information, full-stop. All webfonts, icons, and images are hosted locally (these things can sometimes be used to <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-google-uses-fonts-to-track-what-users-do-online-and-sell-data-to-advertisers-12496552.html">track people across the internet</a>). I use <a href="https://umami.is/">umami</a>, an open source, privacy-respecting analytics tool, to see how many people visit this website. Miss when the internet was fun? Find more interesting personal blogs at <a href="https://blogroll.org">blogroll.org</a>, or <a href="https://ooh.directory/">ooh.directory</a>.
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title: Cowsay of the Day — Science
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title: Cowsay of the Day – Science
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description: An ASCII cow postulates on the state of science education in the modern world.
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date: 2024-01-02
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tags:
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content/blog/patience.md
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title: Patience
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description: Learning about patience through an incense-making miscalculation.
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date: 2024-01-10
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tags:
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- Quick Thoughts
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- Incense
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synopsis: Learning about patience through an incense-making miscalculation.
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imageURL: /img/dragons_blood_incense_copy.avif
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imageAlt: A small piece of a coreless, Japanese-style incense stick burning in a black cast-iron burner.
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Some time ago, maybe a year or so, I extruded some incense sticks from some ingredients I thought might go well together: sandalwood, cinnamon, dragon's blood resin, a touch of Hojari frankincense for acidity, and some tonka bean for sweetness, if I recall correctly. After leaving the sticks to dry overnight, I was disappointed to see that they didn't stay lit; the stick would shrink behind the ember, and it would fizzle out in short order. Even worse, the little scent I was able to detect during the short burn was terrible: acrid and smoky. Dejected, I put the sticks away, returning to attempt to burn a small fragment every few days or so before I lost interest entirely. A few months later, the tube of crooked red incense sticks caught my eye, and I once again attempted to burn a stick. To my surprise, it stayed lit throughout the entire burn. The fragrance had transformed also, from leafy-campfire to a simple, warm, slightly sweet, and medicinal fragrance. While this was enough of an improvement to encourage me to light one every now and then, I remained disappointed that the fragrance was so far from what I'd hoped to achieve. After half-heartedly burning each stick in the little plastic tube that housed them over a period of weeks, the tube disappeared into a basket on the shelf beneath my coffee table amidst a mess of bundled cables and game-controllers, never to be seen again – until just a few days ago.
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[](/img/dragons_blood_incense_copy.avif)
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While rustling around in search of a controller, I discovered the thin plastic tube, noticing two small fragments of incense sliding about as I lifted the tube from the basket. As I lit the first fragment this morning, I was met with a wonderfully clear impression of dragon's blood, uplifted by the bright citrus of Hojari frankincense, on a sweet, warm, woody base; my incense had turned out well after all. Unfortunately, the recipe, written on the tube in dry-erase marker, had long worn off; thinking the batch was a failure, I hadn't recorded it anywhere else. Burning those last two fragments today was bittersweet; all I needed to do was wait. While I'm frustrated about a number of things here, there is something nice about the resulution. By failing to record the recipe, I got to experience something rare and unique today. In those peaceful, fragrant moments, I experienced something lovely for the first and last time – and I learned a thing or two about patience.
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eleventyNavigation:
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key: Home
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order: 1
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numberOfLatestPostsToShow: 10
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numberOfLatestPostsToShow: 5
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---
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{% set postsCount = collections.posts | length %}
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{% set latestPostsCount = postsCount | min(numberOfLatestPostsToShow) %}
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content/now.njk
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content/now.njk
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layout: layouts/base.njk
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eleventyNavigation:
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key: Now
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order: 4
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numberOfLatestPostsToShow: 4
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---
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{% set postsCount = collections.now | length %}
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{% set latestPostsCount = postsCount | min(numberOfLatestPostsToShow) %}
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{% set postslist = collections.now | head(-1 * numberOfLatestPostsToShow) %}
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{% set postslistCounter = postsCount %}
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{% set morePosts = postsCount - numberOfLatestPostsToShow %}
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<h1>Now: What's Been Going on Lately?</h1>
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{% set now = collections.now | last %}
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<h2>{{ now.data.title }}</h2>
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{{ now.content | safe }}
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<p><br>Updated: {{ now.date | readableDate }} | <a href="https://nownownow.com/about">What is a now page?</a></p>
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{% if postsCount > 1 %}
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<h2>Previous Entries:</h2>
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<section class="postlist">
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<div class="postlist-item-container">
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{% for post in postslist | reverse %}
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{% if post.data.title != now.data.title %}
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<article class="postlist-item{% if post.url == url %} postlist-item-active{% endif %}">
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<a href="{{ post.url }}" class="postlist-link">
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<div class="post-image-container">
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<img class="post-image" {% if post.data.imageURL %} src="{{ post.data.imageURL }}" alt="{{ post.data.imageAlt }}" {% else %} src="{{ metadata.defaultPostImageURL }}" alt="{{ metadata.defaultPostImageAlt }}"{% endif %}>
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</div>
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</a>
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<div class="post-copy">
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<a href="{{ post.url }}" class="postlist-link">
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<h3>
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{% if post.data.title %}{{ post.data.title }}{% else %}<code>{{ post.url }}</code>{% endif %}
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</h3>
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</a>
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<time class="postlist-date" datetime="{{ post.date | htmlDateString }}">{{ post.date | readableDate("LLLL yyyy") }}</time>
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{% if post.data.synopsis %}<p>{{ post.data.synopsis | truncate(150) | safe }}</p>{% else %}{{ post.content | truncate(150) | safe }}{% endif %}
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</div>
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</article>
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{% endif %}
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{% endfor %}
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</div>
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{% if morePosts > 0 %}
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<a href="/tags/now"><p>See {{ morePosts }} more post{% if morePosts != 1 %}s{% endif %}</a>.</p>
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{% endif %}
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</section>
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{% endif %}
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content/now/now.11tydata.js
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module.exports = {
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tags: [
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"now"
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],
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"layout": "layouts/post.njk",
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};
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content/now/now_2024-01-08.md
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title: Fragrance, Making Things Last, Rust, and more.
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description: Tentatively making incense sticks, reducing, reusing, and recycling, and doing my best to learn Rust.
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synopsis: Tentatively making incense sticks, reducing, reusing, and recycling, and doing my best to learn Rust.
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date: 2024-01-08
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imageURL: /img/pexels-pixabay-262484_copy.avif
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imageAlt: A black Braun watch with white and yellow hands on a dark background.
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Lately, I've gotten back into the swing of making Japanese style incense - a nerve-wracking endeavour because you never quite know how the expensive aromatics you've spent hours grinding, kneading, and extruding will turn out when you light a stick. Will my latest batch smell like burning tires when it's properly cured? Tune in next time to find out.
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I've also been on a mission to reduce what I consume by focusing on buying well once, and buying reusable items wherever possible. Starting with one good fountain pen, I've now got a number of cotton handkerchiefs and some reusable cotton "paper towels."
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Rust has been on the top of my mind, and I've been going through a Rust course on Udemy. Coming from JavaScript, it's a lot! I desperately want to begin writing native applications for GNU/Linux using Rust and Qt, so I'm determined to keep going even if using strings is an order of magnitude more complicated than `const myString = 'Hello there.'`.
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