Plant resins come with varying amounts of water-soluble gum content. Beyond the temperature-reducing aspect innate to resins in combustible incense, these gums can further affect how much of a given resin you can include in a build. As anyone who has burned resins on charcoal can attest, with resins high in gum...

One of my sporadic movie reviews

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? Ada Lovelace Today I read a couple articles on Ada Lovelace. She was the first programmer ever, which makes her the grandfather of my profession, programming 🤓 (a real G 😉). But she wasn't only a programmer, she was also a prophet. Long before the...

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …

Nighttime vigils lead to unexpected moments of grace. She needed attention. Every half hour to an hour just before we'd fall asleep, she'd whine. She'd cry out, and I'd dutifully carry her to the bathroom to do her necessary business, then clean up after. We theorized it was a stomach bug. This went on for three...

Passively learning a given language can work, but active effort takes you far.

The 勉強会ジャム2024 // Study Buddy Jam 2024 has been extended until December 15!

One of the most tried and tested techniques in programming is to build components that map closely to the real-world problems you are trying to solve. In domain-driven design (DDD), one of the key tenets is to have a domain model at the centre of your application. The domain model should be built in close...

How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?