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Bread Flour vs. All-Purpose Flour
June 23, 2026June 24, 2026Featured, Bread

Bread Flour vs. All-Purpose Flour: Does It Really Matter?

Bread Flour vs. All-Purpose Flour If you’ve ever stood in the baking aisle wondering whether bread flour is worth buying, you’re not […]

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Bread Hydration
June 8, 2026June 8, 2026Featured, Bread

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 […]

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Bread Preferments
June 4, 2026June 4, 2026Featured, Bread

Poolish vs. Biga vs. Sponge: Which Bread Preferment Is Right for You?

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

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Poolish calculator for artisan bread baking by Bytes Bread and BBQ
May 16, 2026May 17, 2026Featured, Bread

I Rebuilt My Poolish Calculator (Because Apparently I Like Complicating Bread)

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

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AI Programming
May 11, 2026May 11, 2026Featured, Linux

Visual Basic Was the AI Programming Tool of the 1990s

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

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ai-coding-vs-hand-coding
May 5, 2026May 5, 2026Uncategorized, Featured, Linux

🔥 Is It Vibe Coding… Hand Coding… or Low-and-Slow Hybrid BBQ?

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

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Linux Kernel 7.0
May 3, 2026May 3, 2026Featured, Linux

🍖 Linux Kernel 7.0 Is Here… And Honestly, You Might Not Notice

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

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May 2, 2026May 2, 2026Featured, Linux

Raphael is a simple FFmpeg slideshow creator that turns a folder of images into an MP4 video.

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

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May 1, 2026May 1, 2026Featured, Linux

CME Tracker for Linux Featured on LinuxLinks.com

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

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April 21, 2026April 21, 2026Featured, Linux

CMETracker: Because $700 a Year to Count Credits Feels… Excessive

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

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