Category: Features
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It’s HTTPS, Dang it!
Inspired by some of the work I’m doing at my new gig where we are an all https shop, I took the $15 plunge and bought a ssl certificate this morning for HarmsBoone.org. Honestly, given how easy it is these days on top of security concerns, Google giving preferential treatment to HTTPS sites, and the NY…
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A Legfinomabb Magyar Étel
On a Friday in late autumn, I walked into my ninth grade bilingual classroom to find an interesting query scrawled across the blackboard. “What is disznóvágás in English?” My command of basic Hungarian pronunciation was still rough around the edges, and as I read the sentence aloud, I mangled the word. I waited for the…
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Ruminations on the Hungarian Language: Take Two
Due to a potent combination of distraction and procrastination, here is part two of a short series on the Hungarian language, belatedly posted and slightly aged. Interested in reading part one? You’re in luck. Not speaking Korean in Korea was easy compared to not speaking Hungarian in Hungary. Korea’s population is remarkably homogenous and there…
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Nem Beszélek Magyarul: Ruminations on the Hungarian Language
Making my way past the supermarket’s overflowing crates of pale green paprikas and stacked tubs of sauerkraut, I found one phrase sliding through my mind.
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Linden Honey Baguette
A post inspired by our friends at Just a Rough Draft, we turn this week to a recipe made from scratch.