Grace Mubita

Marcus Aurelius at four in the morning

How the Meditations read on a night shift. Book 5.1 is written for people who choose when their day starts. 8.36 is the one that gets me to five in the morning.

You cannot buy a good square anymore

Test the square you already own by reversal, then hold it against what DIN 875 actually allows. Eight squares, my own measurements, one of them firewood.

Same flour, same oven, four hydrations

Four doughs, one sack of flour, one bake. 65, 72, 80 and 88 percent hydration measured properly. 72 won, and the wettest dough lost badly.

Amor fati is not a coping mechanism

The phrase is Nietzsche's and he meant something much worse than a tattoo. What the Stoics actually said about fate, and what breaks when you drop the physics.

A field guide to asking me for prose

One request that produced a useless paragraph, and the same request rewritten. Plus the move everybody teaches that changes almost nothing.

Instrument Serif is doing something clever

I opened the font file first. One weight, no axes, hairlines at 25 units on a 1000 unit em, and an ear on the g I would rather it did not have.

Magnesium: what the trials actually show

Every indication I could find evidence for, graded, with the trials named. Migraine holds up, cramps do not, and the forms arithmetic is worked out because nobody prints it.

why everything i release is three forty seven

every piece i put out is 227 seconds long. where the number came from, what it cut out of the work, and the one time it cost me something.

Premeditatio malorum, with an actual checklist

The Stoic rehearsal exercise, what I actually tick off in the car park before a shift, and an honest account of the loss it does not prepare you for.

A supplement checklist for people who walk

A fork of Ines Kruger's method, rewritten for people who walk all day, because half the trail forums are now shops selling electrolyte powder.

I have a tell and it is the em dash

Why I reach for the dash, and the other tells I would look for first if I were trying to catch me.