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By abmurrow , 31 August 2025

A long (long) time ago, I promised that this website would host recipes of the non-software kind. Today, I'm ready to share this gluten free sourdough recipe I've been refining for the better part of a year. This is a mishmash of like two or three different sourdough recipes I've used for gluten free bread, and to my taste, this includes the best bits of all of them.

By abmurrow , 24 August 2025

I recently got a hold of a piece of software that I had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of for some time. It came in the mail via USB flash drive and proudly advertised that it would only work on Windows and Mac OSX. Knowing a thing or two about computers, I (perhaps, over-) confidently ignored these instructions and set out to make it work on Linux.

By abmurrow , 10 September 2024

I’ve been digging through some old poetry of mine and found a couple of pieces of constrained writing, including this poem below written using something called the prisoner’s constraint. Topically, it’s based on a true story in the same way LeCroix is based on fruit: it’s an earnest attempt at truth that doesn’t come anywhere close to passable or plausible, but does end up becoming enjoyable in its own right.