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Understanding Bread Hydration: Why 70% Dough Behaves So Differently Than 60%

If you’ve ever followed a bread recipe and thought: “Why does this dough feel like Play-Doh?” or “Why is this dough trying […]

If you’ve been baking bread for a while, you’ve probably heard bakers throw around words like poolish, biga, and sponge as if […]

About a year ago I created a small JavaScript application that could convert almost any bread recipe into a poolish recipe. At […]

Or: How Programmers Have Been Letting Computers Do the Heavy Lifting Since Before AI Was Cool What 1980s and 1990s programming taught […]

AI Coding vs Hand Coding: Does It Even Matter? Recently, someone dropped a comment on my TikTok saying my Raphael app was […]

I fired up my Garuda Linux VM the other day, ran hyfetch, and nearly spit out my coffee. Linux Kernel 7.0. Wait… […]

FFmpeg Slideshow Creator for Image Folders Over the last few months, I’ve been building a set of Java applications that use FFmpeg […]

It’s always a good feeling when one of your projects gets noticed—and CME Tracker for Linux recently received a stub review on […]

Here I am—a retired physician who still wants to maintain his license… just in case. You know, in case I get bored. […]

Last week I was deep in the weeds figuring out why apt sometimes just shrugs and says, “nah, I’m good.” This week […]