“Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.”
Noted on this day in 2010, still noteworthy today.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/02/confused-about-nutrition-eat-food/
Monthly report: January 2026
Late because recovering my full WithKnown installation took priority. Also, it was a pretty uneventful month.
Highlights of the month:
Splendid unforeseen rest sitting with our favourite cat
Rereading Lord of the Rings (for the first time!)
Good start on moving web hosting...
Working life
An archive of some of the data I have recorded about how I spend some of my time.
Total hours worked per month
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“Boar’s Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak”
I’m sure it will be absolutely fine.
https://apnews.com/article/boars-head-listeria-recall-plant-reopens-a840cee98af425971d5da3c658d5013d
Sandwich Questionnaire
I love sandwiches. Earlier today I was thinking about how you can eat a sandwich at any time of the day. I have eaten sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When I saw Zachary’s “Sandwich Questionnaire“, I thought I have to respond to this!
I have been thinking about ...
Why I love my favourite words
Every so often, I use the word delightful in conversation. That is delightful! I try not to use “delightful” too often, but I do like to bring it into a discussion every now and again. It is one of my favourite words.
The word delightful, like the word awe, makes me feel a ...
Design and missing categories
Ever since I moved to using Ghost as the tool for publishing my blog posts [1], I have forgotten to add categories to some of my blog posts. My old system had a few if statements that would automatically select a category. If none of the rules triggered and I did not choose ...
The Human Condition
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Noticing
Last weekend, I went to the National Gallery of Scotland. This time, I started my trip on the bottom floor where all the Scottish art is on display. A few minutes after entering the gallery, I was captivated by paintings of Nature and of Edinburgh. I noticed that one wall wa...
Clouds
I have been waking up with anticipation every morning recently. I say “good morning, world”, and then anxiously peek through the edge of the curtains. I hope for the blue sky.
This last week has been rainy and grey. I tried to understand why but the meteorology went over my...
Just putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's podcast episode, and this seemed inappropriate.
Debug mode
One of the areas of the Artemis codebase that I update the most is the logic that relates to the list of posts published by authors to which a user is subscribed. Because Artemis works with so many different formats of information – web feeds like RSS or h-feed, Mastodon pos...
Staging banners
When I run the Artemis codebase, one of the first things it does is look for an environment variable that indicates what “environment” the application is running in. There are two modes: development and production. If no mode is specified, development mode is set by default....
07.02.2026
Redirecting YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md to /YYYY/MM/DD/slug with Nginx
Earlier this week a reader pointed out that posts listed on my date archive pages were linking to the wrong URLs. For example, the link for /2026/01/25/kind-software would instead be /2026-01-25-kind-software.md. This was caused by my static site generator using the markdown...
Facts About Me | Zachary Kai
Inspired by Peige's and Becky's posts, I thought I'd do a post in a similar format! So have twenty facts, given I'm in that life stage as of writing.
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Sandwich Questionnaire | Zachary Kai
This page is my tribute to the most reliable and versatile meal: sandwiches! A questionnaire exploring preferences and the joy of stuff between bread. Why don't you answer it?
It's ins...
06.02.2026
Reducing Artemis’ deployment downtime with blue-green deployments
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, runs as a systemd process. When I want to update the software, I deploy the new code to the server and then restart the systemd process. This has a significant downside: while the Artemis process is restarting, the software is unavail...
Does your website run on green energy?
A few weeks ago I did a day-long training Carbon Literacy Project training course through my university. When I was taking the course and considering ways I can reduce my carbon footprint, I started thinking about technology. I don’t know much about calculating emissions fro...