Language. Faith. Memory. Systems.
A blog about overthinking everything that matters (and some things that don't).
Dew of Your Youth is about thought, memory, matters of faith, and the systems we build to keep our thinking from dissolving.
Jewish texts, personal workflows, family archives, and languages learned along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to organize your soul with Markdown, welcome.
Language learning as obsession, memory systems, and pedagogy.
Obsidian, Hugo tweaks, DevOps rants, scripts that almost worked.
Jewish rituals, Torah journaling, spiritual processing, the Elul Logs.
Genealogy deep-dives, travel stories, cultural identity unraveling.
Tech & Tools
Pairing Elixir with Cheese, Part II: In Search of Something Salty
Sep 25, 2026 11 minutesEmbeddings taught my Elixir cheese catalog that cabernet means red wine, but a search for salty proved similarity isn’t the same as a good pairing.
Tech & Tools
Pairing Elixir with Cheese
Sep 24, 2026 6 minutesI built a cheese catalog in Elixir, letting an LLM fill in flavor profiles and pairings — then used pattern matching to keep the data honest.
Tech & Tools
Personal Ops: Learning From Its Own Mistakes
Aug 28, 2026 14 minutesA voice note got misread as a literal agenda item called ‘whatever I missed.’ The fix turned into a general system for catching ambiguous commands, logging corrections, and a plan to move routine parsing off the API and onto a local model.
Learning & Languages
My Arabic Music Liner Notes
Jun 16, 2026 30 minutesTwenty Arabic songs across Tunisian, Algerian, Levantine, and Sudanese dialects — liner notes for training your ear, song by song.
Tech & Tools
Count First, Interpret Second
Jun 2, 2026 7 minutesMy personal-ops bot’s weekly digest kept turning noisy logs into confident diagnoses. The fix was one rule: count first, interpret second, diagnose cautiously.