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Sometimes when you build software, you shave a yak so deeply that you end up with a surprisingly nice sweater (while the yak, presumably, wonders why it is suddenly rather drafty). For the past while, my team and I have been building a quantum compiler ca

Sometimes when you build software, you shave a yak so deeply that you end up with a surprisingly nice sweater (while the yak, presumably, wonders why it is suddenly rather drafty). For the past while, my team and I have been building a quantum compiler ca

There is a specific, sharp mist that hangs in the air when you slice into a calamansi. The fruit is small, usually no larger than a marble, with a thin green skin that yields an abrasive, floral acidity - something halfway between a key lime and a sour ma

There is a specific, sharp mist that hangs in the air when you slice into a calamansi. The fruit is small, usually no larger than a marble, with a thin green skin that yields an abrasive, floral acidity - something halfway between a key lime and a sour ma

" I didn't cook dinner last night," my sister mentioned to me the other week. She has a one-year-old and a three-year-old, a combination of ages that practically guarantees a baseline level of perpetual exhaustion. " Oh!" I replied. "Wait." I tried to rat

My previous blog post, The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision , has been getting a (minor) amount of attention over on Hackernews and Metafilter , and I wanted to take a moment to go through some of the comments, share my thou

Update: This blogpost has been getting a (minor) amount of attention over on Hackernews and Metafilter. I took a moment in a new blogpost to go through some of the comments. One of my favorite recipes for challah does not tell you how much flour to use. T

One of my favorite recipes for challah does not tell you how much flour to use. To a modern amateur baker, this ommision borders on heresy. But it is an honest reflection of how the bread is personally made - cooking is a deeply personal experience, and c

There is a peculiar theater to the internet's culinary landscape, and if you spend enough time observing it, you will inevitably stumble into a warzone over authenticity. For example, no action incites internet fury faster than recipes of spaghetti carbon