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    <title>reverse september</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[\nI've spent thirty years complaining about the internet, in roughly the way other people complain about the weather \u2014 constantly, uselessly, and with the nag...]]></description>
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    <title>corpus christi</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[\nLemme spoil the lede: I've been running a language model over years of chat logs with my wife. No, not to generate fake apologies this time (that was the Ma...]]></description>
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    <title>no look bread</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[4 parts flour 3 parts water 1 tsp yeast 1 tbl salt per 4 cups flour First there was no-knead bread, now for … well, not really no look. But no stress at least. I’ve used the no-knead approach, a Cusinart and a stand mixer. It doesn’t matter. Add about 4 cups of flour, maybe […]]]></description>
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    <title>curtido</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Seems like every culture has it own spin on fermented cabbage. Sauerkraut, kimchee and, obviously,\u00a0 curtido?\u00a0 On a recent trip to Central America we were fascinated by cabbage relish served with regional pupusas.\u00a0 Every restaurant and food stall had a slightly different take on the recipe and all were deservedly proud of their results. The […]]]></description>
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    <title>homemade vinegar</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bottle ends are a problem that plagues casual and, ahem, more serious wine drinkers alike. The remnants of that bottle of wine that, though good enough at the time, is honestly not improving with age. Rather than drain it down the sink or worse, gritting your teeth and drinking it, consider turning it into vinegar. […]]]></description>
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    <title>make beer cheap</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Now that I have your attention … time for the bait and switch. It very much depends on how much you budget for beer. Lemmee spoil the lede, I got my costs down to one dollar per 22oz beer. The end result, brewed to my taste, competed handily with the better beers on the shelf. […]]]></description>
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    <title>bacon popcorn</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Maybe this is obvious but it was enough of a revelation that I thought I’d document it. After flirtations with curry flavored coconut oil popped popcorn (excellent), I cast around for other ways to impart a unique flavor to popcorn. My Irish immigrant father kept a jar of bacon fat in the fridge when I […]]]></description>
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    <title>markov boyfriend</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Reading about artificially generated tweets from a certain (in)famous twit got me thinking about an idea I had for a plug-in to my chat app. There was a time, before I implemented the chat app, when I was not the most communicative husband. In my defense, I was deep in code in a state of […]]]></description>
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    <title>smoked pork butt</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After reading through “Franklin Barbecue, a Meat Smoking Manifesto,” I was inspired to knock the dust off of my Bradley smoker. The results were impressive enough that my resident food critic/wife requested that I write down the recipe. So without further ado here it is: Get your hands on a pork butt. Mine weighed 4 […]]]></description>
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    <title>skinner whole house</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After experimenting with house automation, I arrived at the inevitable point when I needed something to do with all this cool stuff that nearly worked. Having devoted entirely too much time to the process of raising and training a miniature human, my first instinct was to look for ways to automate the work of parenting […]]]></description>
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    <title>fitness tracker chore dump</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We started a family step count game. The idea is simple: whoever wins the daily step count gets bragging rights. We keep a running tally of weekly victories. The weekly winner gets to assign the weekly loser a chore of their choice. I kitted each of us out with a Xiaomi Mi Fit 2. At […]]]></description>
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    <title>J.A.Y.N.E</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Jayne was an automated yelling and nagging entity. She was my early attempt at a whole house AI before that was a thing.\u00a0 She was definitely artificial but not particularly intelligent. She ruled our house from my daughter’s kindergarten until third grade. What follows are a few observations about the experience. Before her retirement Jayne […]]]></description>
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    <title>smoked meat</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[So … what is the appeal of bacon? Sure, pork belly is utterly, incontrovertibly delicious. Nitrates, nitrites, salt, oh my. Maple syrup? Nah. It turns out its all about the smoke. How can you tell? Smoke something, anything really. It picks up a hint of bacony umami. Cheese, turkey, for the love of everything holy […]]]></description>
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    <title>after a year of home roasting …</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is not hard to roast decent coffee at home.\u00a0 The trick, for me at least, is to remain open to different flavors and to accept a few degrees of variation from roast to roast.\u00a0 That counts double if you are a less scientific in your process. I use a Gene roaster from\u00a0 Burman Coffee […]]]></description>
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