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Nah. I just have a tiny capacity and a very variable order book. If I baked the same thing every day, the wastage would kill me.

You have a point. If I were doing higher volumes at retail, the thought process would be much simpler. Make up a 60% starter on 8kg of flour in the evening. In the morning, empty a…

It. Doesn’t. Matter. Use the too, you’re comfortable in and you’ll be way more productive than dropping everything to learn something new. Do that when the limitations of your curr…

Yeah, the calculation stuff is so handy.

Yeah. Lots of hand waving in the piece because it was a choice between something I could write in a morning for a general audience or, frankly, not bothering to write anything at a…

For the actual business of making the bread it’s a matter of printing off a single production schedule for the day and taking that into the bakehouse. Touchscreens are a hygiene ni…

The echo dot is an essential part of the bakery. Multiple overlapping named timers, fired off without having to touch anything? Get in! Once I start the mixes, everything runs from…

Yup. The spreadsheet is an amazing innovation, I just find all the repetition when adding something that should just be data to be monumentally frustrating. And I have no idea how …

Yup. Bakeries have been run using a pen and paper daybook and the master baker’s skill for centuries. But the calculations are still a pain in the arse, so automating that is a big…

Yup. My bad. Hashing collision in my brain.

Where's the fun in that? The first bug is pretty blatant and will leap out at you if you're reading the paper closely (it's of the order of a syntax error). Describing the second w…

I read it in Copeland's "The Essential Turing", which I recommend highly.

A very useful comment, that. I've added an update to the bottom of the post. I'd always found the assembler story surprising give Turing's history of mechanising drudge work (the b…

Which is why, if you're starting a Perl project today, you turn on warnings and strict, you choose between TryCatch and Try::Tiny and you seriously consider adding autodie to the m…

Well... there's CTAN. Oh, hang on, that came first didn't it? Forget I said anything.

And a host of Perl makes it possible for the BBC to serve up its iPlayer content. Some of it is even modern MooseX::Declare based Perl.