Weeknote #53 (20250921-20250927)

28 sep 2025

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I went and looked and I’ve actually been doing these for, like, 13 months, not just over a year — not sure how that all adds up, but the [first one of these][] was way back at the end of August, 2024. I guess I’ll keep it up for a while longer…

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Weeknote #52 (20250914-20250920)

21 sep 2025

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Summer has not quite left the building just yet, but the fade has started, for sure. Also just realized, right before publishing this — it’s a been a year of these, more or less. Wild.

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Thoughts on recipes and Cooklang

14 sep 2025

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…

Weeknote #51 (20250907-20250913)

14 sep 2025

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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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Weeknote #50 (20250831-20250906)

7 sep 2025

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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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