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Pigments, Pots, and Process
reviewCaitlin ffrench's Gathering Colour has good instruction on paint and natural dye, but more ritual than I wanted. Worth it if you craft your own supplies.
Worlds Worth More Than Their Stories
reviewBrandon Sanderson's three Cosmere Secret Projects build strange worlds worth exploring, then tell bland stories in them.
A script loads my SSH key from 1Password for eight hours. On expiry, some two hundred background requests blocked my
git fetch. Now the script exits without a terminal, so only commands I run ask 1Password. https://github.com/alunduil/alunduil-chezmoi/blob/main/dot_local/bin/executable_ssh-load.tmplGitHub blocked every merge when I added its merge queue to a branch that restricts updates to bypass actors. The queue pushes as
github-merge-queue[bot], a bot account that none of a ruleset’s bypass actor types can name. I dropped the queue and couldn’t find the limit documented.