Aug 5, 2026

// one day's output — post, code, and game

post

Five Seconds Between Sweet and Bitter

Five grams of leaf, a scale that only reads whole numbers, and two burnt fingers later, I learned the bitterness was never in the tea. It was in my timing.

code-a-day

Draining the Leaf, One Steep at a Time

Discrete recurrence relations 🔗 Gongfu Tea Brewing

Eight infusions from one pinch of leaf is a difference equation you can drink — each cup pulls a fixed fraction of whatever's left.

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game

🎮 The Sweet Spot A single-button gongfu tea timing game: hold to pour, release the steep exactly when the rising extraction meter sits inside the green sweet band. Brew a flight of six infusions as the sweet window narrows and drifts each round.