Encumbered by the vulgar exigencies of objective truth

This is my blog for projects and ramblings, whether modernly geeky or medievally nerdy.
blog food

Fermenting Backyard Veg

When life hands you, uh, grape tomatoes… ...

August 16, 2025 · 251 words
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Adding Backlinks to Hugo

I didn’t realize I wanted this functionality until I started pondering whether to use Obsidian as a front-end to posting to Hugo… ...

August 14, 2025 · 92 words
blog food
a bowl of homemade greek yogurt, toasted oatmeal and za'atar halvah

Yogurt Halvah Breakfast

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July 16, 2025 · 161 words
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Mastodon attribution testing

Let’s see if attribution on Mastodon is working from Hugo… ...

July 15, 2025 · 105 words
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Testing attribution again

Let’s see if attribution on Mastodon is working from Hugo… ...

July 15, 2025 · 103 words

Need to Figure Out Some Habits and Organization

Or “This seems like a good idea; how can I stick with it and smash some order into it?” ...

July 9, 2025 · 275 words
blog tech

Posting Hugo Entries to Mastodon

Leveraging a couple of articles and a friend’s suggestion of Huginn, this might actually work… ...

July 9, 2025 · 263 words
cooking

Ferment All the Things

We’ve been getting a lot of veggies in our CSA-like-thing and not using them all, so…time to ferment. ...

July 8, 2025 · 254 words
brewing

Ginger beer II: 5 gallons

After the success of the last batch, I’m doing a second. Bigger, because why not? ...

March 22, 2025 · 322 words
brewing

Ginger beer fun

I wanted to brew a probiotic ginger beer and came away with a fun and tasty byproduct… ...

March 13, 2025 · 235 words