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Back cover photo in 2026 issue of Tenkara Angler
The 2026 print issue of Tenkara Angler went live today: One of my photos from the fly swap post is on the back cover. Exciting! If you are into tenkara, the print issue is full of good stuff. Worth checking out.
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Creamy Rio Zape Bean Dip
This week’s bean dish is an appetizer for the Super Bowl party we are going to this afternoon. I doubled the recipe on this Rio Zape bean dip from Rancho Gordo: I’ve made a couple different recipes with Rio Zape beans, and they are the tastiest bean varietal I’ve tried so far. Velvety texture and…
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Three Amaro Nonino cocktail recommendations
I love amaro, and Amaro Nonino is a good gateway amaro if you haven’t yet explored the category. Here are three excellent cocktails in which to enjoy Nonino. All of these are in books on my shelf, but alas, you can’t link to books, so I linked to online sources. Fallback This is a wonderful…
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Using AI for email triage
For the first time in a decade, I switched email apps. I’ve been a longtime Airmail user, but I moved to Spark for both macOS and iOS. The AI features are what pushed me over the edge. The ability to prompt things like these have been incredibly helpful for keeping my inbox tidy: It is…
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Uniqlo Crossbody Bag
When I’m out on photo walks, I like to have both a wide lens and a zoom lens with me, but I don’t want to carry my big gear bag. I couple weeks ago I picked up a Crossbody Bag at Uniqlo for $25, intending to use it on park outings and woods walks with…
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Automatically fixing links with the Wayback Machine
Broken links on the web are inevitable, but losing valuable context doesn’t have to be. I’ve been working on a plugin at work, in conjunction with the Internet Archive, to help combat link rot on WordPress sites. I consider this a “set it and forget it” plugin. One it is running, you don’t need to…
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Hudson Ice Floes
After picking Charlie up from school yesterday, we went on a drive to photograph the ice floes on the Hudson River. One of my favorite things when we lived on the Yonkers Waterfront was seeing the ice floes in the middle of winter. We haven’t had much ice the last couple years, so I was…
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How NYC handles snow
It is common knowledge that NYC puts blades on garbage trucks to plow snow: One thing I didn’t consider is that switching to electric garbage trucks impacted their effectiveness as snow plows. My friend Trevor, who designs and installs efficient energy systems in buildings in NYC, told me a few other things this weekend about…
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2001 was a great year for albums
I started noticing the last couple years that many albums I remember fondly were released in 2001, so I got curious: What other albums did I listen to at one time that came out in 2001? The list was longer than I thought! It might have been because these albums were popular during formative time…
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Month of January 2026
January was a cold, snowy month. We had three snowstorms this month and average temperatures well below freezing, sometimes dipping into the negatives overnight. This is the coldest, snowiest January we’ve had since moving to Peekskill in 2019. Beginning of January: Mid-January: End of January: We’ve spent a lot of evenings snuggled on the couch…
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Breaking the ICE
The ICE protests and strikes today inspired me to write out some of my thoughts on those frozen-hearted bastards. In the last decade, I’ve strayed away from politics, having burnt myself out pouring so much of my time and attention on it from ~2006-2014. Now, I’m more pragmatic and less idealistic now than 15 years…
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Thinking of Spring
With temperatures in the single digits and sixteen inches of snow blanketing the world outside, my thoughts turn to spring. In my mind, I’m wandering alongside a stream, looking for telltale signs of a rising trout, or at least a place one might be hiding. Here are a few places I’m drawing inspiration as I…
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Three tiny snowballs
I thought about making these monotone, but I love the subtle blues that come out in photos of snow.
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In Praise of Mink Oil
I’ve spent hours this winter shoveling snow, making snowballs, packing snowmen, and pulling a sled. My hands have stayed dry thanks to Fiebing’s Golden Mink Oil. I bought these buckskin gloves a few years ago, but when they are brand new they aren’t waterproof. I needed a solution. After just one coat of Fiebing’s Golden…
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Digging out from Fern
Winter Storm Fern ended up dumping 16″ of snow on us in 24 hours. I’m spending much of today digging us and a neighbor out with the fourth round of shoveling. Thankfully we still have power and we didn’t get ice here. This is the most snow we’ve had at one time in our six…
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Christmas Lima bean, fennel, and sausage stew
This week I planned on making some green lentils in mujadara for my weekly bean dish, but with the blizzard, we needed some hearty stew. I found this recipe in the Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Guide. On the blizzard: Just before eating this, I measured 11 inches of snow. We have at least 3 more…
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Tehching Hsieh Exhibition
This week in Slack, Matt encouraged us to visit a museum for a couple hours during the work day. We live ~30 minutes from Dia:Beacon, which I visited twice even before we moved here. I messaged a couple coworkers who live in the area to see if they were free and wanted to join me.…
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Hand drawn maps
I love hand drawn maps. I’ve been digging through old guidebooks looking for trout fishing spots, and two of them have hand drawn stream maps, complete with names of specific pools, runs, eddies, and points of interest. Newer digital maps, often based on state GIS data or Google Maps, are great for easy mobile access,…
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Cozy places photo walk
As part of my goal for this year to get back into photography, I charged my SLR’s batteries and went on a photo walk in the woods after a big snow. I gave myself the theme of “cozy places” that small woodland creatures might hole up during the storm. I couldn’t help but take a…
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Snow day dessert
One of the things going around on Instagram right now is people making ice cream out in the snow. It sounded fun, so I pitched the idea to Charlie. I didn’t have to ask him twice! To speed up the process, I opted for a recipe that didn’t involve adding eggs and heating everything up…