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Bread part 2

Since /random/bread we have moved cities, and I'm continuing to make bread.  It's been fine, but a week or so ago I did it on autopilot and put 1.25 cups of water in again. 

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Obfuscation

My wife was reading the other day. She looked over at me and asked, "What does obfuscated mean?". Being a programmer, and having seen some rather obfuscated code in my time (not to mention the IOCCC) I'm familiar with the true meaning of the word. I explained it, then wondered:

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Static site

Blogs have gone through various styles over the years; static hand-crafted posts, forum-based, CMS's (Drupal, Wordpress), and back to static sites. I used Joomla for a while, but never got the hang of it. Then I converted to Drupal, which was fine and dandy, but at some point, some major release, it all changed and if I wanted to stay updated I was going to have to do an enormous amount of work to do so. And that would still leave me with the attack surface of a full CMS, which became increasingly scary.

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