Note: I originally wrote this a few months ago, and it’s been sitting in my drafts folder ever since. Chunks of it are no longer accurate — I think I’m going to end up rolling my own 11ty plugin, for example — but it mostly represents where my thoughts have settled, and so I might as well publish it…

Not quite five years ago, in the midst of the initial phases of the pandmy, I sat down and banged out some thoughts about recipe affordances. I’m still thinking about some of these things, particularly as I ponder converting the backing store for recipes.genehack.org over to something like Cooklang.

More noodling on this topic after the jump…

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Kind of a quiet week, overall? I was in Seattle for a big chunk of it, for work, so it was mostly attending meetings and leading meetings and catching up with folks. I capped it off with a nice ~12 hour drive home Friday, coming all the way down from the Olympic peninsula to Astoria on US 101.

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Back to the new normal — which is just like the old normal, pretty much, except no Mx18 in the mix.

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It’s been quite a while since I spent a week in the NYC area and I’ve missed it.

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This was a really discombobulated week — poor sleep, high anxiety — but at the end of it I got to meet back up with Mx18 and TheWife in NY — so all’s well that ends well?

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