Fragrance, Making Things Last, Rust, and more.
Tentatively making incense sticks, reducing, reusing, and recycling, and doing my best to learn Rust.
Lately, I’ve gotten back into the swing of making Japanese style incense - a nerve-wracking endeavour because you never quite know how the expensive aromatics you’ve spent hours grinding, kneading, and extruding will turn out when you light a stick. Will my latest batch smell like burning tires when it’s properly cured? Tune in next time to find out.
I’ve also been on a mission to reduce what I consume by focusing on buying well once, and buying reusable items wherever possible. Starting with one good fountain pen, I’ve now got a number of cotton handkerchiefs and some reusable cotton “paper towels.”
Rust has been on the top of my mind, and I’ve been going through a
Rust course on Udemy. Coming from JavaScript, it’s a lot! I
desperately want to begin writing native applications for GNU/Linux
using Rust and Qt, so I’m determined to keep going even if using
strings is an order of magnitude more complicated than
const myString = 'Hello there.'.
