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content/blog/cowsay_2024-01-02.md

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 synopsis: An ASCII cow postulates on the state of science education in the modern world.
 imageURL: /img/cowsayOfTheDay.avif
 imageAlt: An ASCII cow with a thought bubble containing the word wut
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 As a big-old nerd, I spend a lot of time in the terminal on my computer. When you spend a lot of time somewhere, you want it to be comfortable. As a part of making my terminal more homey, I've set it up to give me a random quote each time I start a new session, delivered, of course, by a cow. Here's today's cowsay of the day:
 

content/blog/let-us-waffle.md

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 synopsis: Tools like cooked.wiki let us strip away the cruft from online recipes. Is this necessarily a good thing?
 imageURL: /img/pexels-brigitte-tohm-378008_compressed.webp
 imageAlt: An oddly rectangular waffle covered in raspberries. It actually looks quite dry and not very nice. Hopefully there's some syrup on the side!
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 So, about this [cooked.wiki](https://cooked.wiki) thing, believe me when I say I take my fair share in our collective frustration as I find myself skimming through a  hugoesque tome on Brayden and Braxlynne’s wiggly teeth in order to reach the ingredients for “Keighleigh’s Extra Easy No-Bake Ten Minute Palmiers (*So Delicious You’ll Snort the Crumbs!*),” but I must admit that the endless complaining about it puts me out a bit. Here’s the thing; as someone who writes for his own personal blog, who plans to someday publish a recipe or two, *the waffling is the point.*
 

content/blog/new-kmines-themes.md

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 synopsis: My first KDE contribution! Two new high-contrast KMines themes that will arrive with Plasma 6.
 imageURL: /img/kmines_dark.webp
 imageAlt: A screenshot of the KMines game window showing a new dark theme.
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 ## Why KMines?
 Minesweeper is a tragically underrated puzzle game. While I recall examining the mysterious array of gray squares as a child, it wasn't until adulthood that I took the time to learn the rules of the game. Despite my late start, however, I still count minesweeper as a classic. These days, good minesweeper clones are hard to come by. I settled on GNOME's [Mines](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Mines) for a while, but as the look of GTK applications on my QT-based [KDE Plasma Desktop](https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/) sets my teeth on edge, I ditched it for [KMines](https://apps.kde.org/kmines/) in short order. While I enjoyed the game, I found the themes shipped with KMines a bit dated, so I thought I'd make my own.

content/blog/offline.md

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 synopsis: A conversation with a colleague caused me to consider the consequences of online-only tooling.
 imageURL: /img/kenny-eliason-uq5RMAZdZG4-unsplash.webp
 imageAlt: A server rack in the dark with colorful cables draped between the ports of servers and switches.
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 As part of a project investigating a potential new piece of software, I've been speaking with colleagues and contractors to determine which features they rely on to do their day-to-day tasks, as well as discover any wish-list items for a new platform. In one of these discussions with a colleague, we had covered her relatively simple use case, and moved on to discuss potential features that might be useful. At this juncture, she mentioned, somewhat apologetically, that should a particular workflow be translated to a new platform, it was important to be able to access data and documents offline.
 

content/blog/patience.md

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 synopsis: Learning about patience through an incense-making miscalculation.
 imageURL: /img/dragons_blood_incense_copy.avif
 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 a batch of 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.
 

content/blog/underrated-apps-qownnotes.md

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   - Underrated Apps
 imageURL: /img/qownnotes.webp
 imageAlt: A screenshot of QOwnNotes showing a note subfolder panel beside markdown editor and preview panels.
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 [![A screenshot of QOwnNotes showing a note subfolder panel beside markdown editor and preview panels.](/img/qownnotes.webp "QOwnNotes running on EndeavourOS / KDE Plasma")](/img/qownnotes.webp)
 

content/blog/vegan-and-alternative-diets-in-foodservice.md

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 synopsis: Breaking down the alternative-diet restaurant experience to offer some perspective and advice to foodservice professionals and proprietors.
 imageURL: /img/k8-sWEpcc0Rm0U-unsplash.webp
 imageAlt: An overhead view of a restaurant interior showing guests sitting at tables with white tablecloths, eating pastries.
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 I've been a vegan for close to a decade. From washing dishes, slinging cocktails, and pouring latte art, to recipe development, hiring, compliance, and multi-location operations, I've also been around the block a few times when it comes to foodservice. So when I tell you that the vast majority of foodservice establishments of any stripe are utter and complete complete nightmares for people with alternative diets, I hope you'll take me at my word.
 

content/index.njk

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