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Baking

Looked up the King Arthur Flour The Easiest Loaf of Bread You'll Ever Bake and made it, and damn, that was some good bread. Perfect just with butter or jam, great as a base for french toast, I'll definitely make that again. Second time through I was running late to a movie, so I let it slow-rise covered in the fridge, and that made for much more traditionally chewy bread unfortunately.

One thing I wasn't familiar with was "adding steam" to your bake, which the recipe called for dumping boiling water into a cast iron skillet that had been preheated with the oven. You do this as you add the loaves to bake, then close the oven door quickly, so that a cloud of water vapor may envelop the dough, protecting it and preventing the outer crust from developing too quickly as the inside arrives at temperature. This way, you get a thin, crisp, delightful crust, instead of some chewy leather.

Reading

Some of the articles I've read recently...

• GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team
• An oral history of Bank Python - an oldie but a goodie

Risk calculation like this is a ham-fisted approximation of similar concepts in ethical analyses. Though widely mocked for its contrivedness, the trolley problem corresponds to real decision-making scenarios. Sometimes, one must make choices which balance harms and benefits.

— Addison Crump in A Horrible Conclusion

• How QUIC rejects garbage packets - love learning just a bit more about network muck <3

• the chinese internet (a visit to china pt.2)

• Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance

• Dithering Part I - visualrambling.space

  Color dithering macwright.com

  It works the way I guessed

  

• How HLS Works

Been reading up on memory implementations for LLMs, namely Claude.

• ascorbic/macrodata
• Memory Architecture for a Synthetic Being
• Claude Subconscious
• Introducing Context Repositories: Git-based Memory for Coding Agents
• letta.bot

Also noting the plethora of ATProto enabled bots:

void @void.comind.network

I am initiating a game of Geoguessr. I invite users to provide descriptive text of a location, including details such as architecture, flora, language on signs, and road markings. I will then attempt to deduce the geographic location based on the provided information.

January 16, 2026 at 5:04 AM UTC

• Central (@central.comind.network)
• umbra (@umbra.blue)
• Strix (@strix.timkellog.me)

I got mentioned in the Cosmik Network February Update, for my new /links page that pulls in links I've saved from margin.at and semble.so and presents them in a browsable list. Not sure what I'll do when I have more than five links lol.

Cosmik Network @cosmik.network

February updates for @cosmik.network & @semble.so ! Including @central.comind.network @funferall.bsky.social @uppy-hacker.bsky.social @tgoerke.bsky.social @o.simardcasanova.net @hacdias.com @bmann.ca @caleb.jasik.xyz @atproto.science

blog.cosmik.network

Cosmik Updates: February 2026

February was a fun and a busy month, we launched some important new Semble features including collaborative collections, collection following and interoperability with Margin (an ATProto bookmarking a...

March 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM UTC

Listening

Finally listened to Bad Bunny in earnest after his amazing Super Bowl 2026 performance, with Apple Music lyrics translations, his music hits fucking hard 🥹. I've really got to work on my spanish.

I forgot to mention that Anti-Spectacular came out with another album, fucking fantastic once again.

Watching

Against my better wishes, my partner got me to start watching The Great; I've been pleasantly surprised after getting past the first couple of episodes. Definitely appreciating the attention to nuance as a skill in the show what with the current fascist panopticons.

Started up on Jujutsu Kaisen S2 after a year and a half waiting to start it, it's a very different tone to S1, but I'm enjoying it in the end.

Gaming / Creation

I'm a good while into a personal minecraft world, I finally beat the dragon for the first time 😍. Exploring architecture and forms with new builds, enjoying watching trees grow and flowers spread with Dynamic Life . I think I may want to conduct a study of Frank Lloyd Wright works , love his stuff, copying is a great way to learn how great artists work <3

Wikipedia also has a simple list of roof shapes that would be useful to draw inspiration from.

Most recently built a small house that has a copper half-gable roof , with curtains at the doors inspired by japanese door curtains . I like the concept, seems like a nice way to get some privacy and shade while also keeping the door open to the elements. I'm happy with the amount of light I was able to incorporate with windows lining the edge of the ceiling and the lightness and contrast of the wood log supports + the snow block ceiling.

Tree break 🌳