Opifex Vocatuum

So I’ve finally started another project (along with Daniel Bentall, Simon Richards, and Joshua Jordan) that I’ll attempt to use to kickstart me actually blogging.¹ Bet you can’t guess what it is from the title.²

A cocktail maker! I’ve been wanting to make one of these for years, ever since I saw one posted somewhere on the interwebs; I want to say it was on reddit, but I think this was before I’d even discovered reddit. The only example of a similar device that I can find at the moment is The Inebriator, but that’s a lot more commercialised than what we’re planning on.

I’m currently planning on posting every 2 or 3 days about this, hopefully it will promote me to actually keep on working on this steadily. The posts will generally be quite short,³ both so I don’t get too distracted when trying to finish one and so I have enough material to keep posting with regularly.⁴ Coming up next will be a few posts detailing a broad overview of the system, followed by the initial section that I’m planning to work on. ⁵

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1. Third time’s the charm, right?⁵ ↩

2. Declining those Latin nouns took far longer than it should, I really need to learn Latin properly someday. ↩

3. Although probably longer than this one. ↩

4. How long will my posting spree last this time? Can I beat my current record of one post before dropping a topic. ↩

5. Shout out to Lauren Wayne for an easy way to do footnoting in Blogger, I’m going to be using this all the time from now. Adapted it a bit to use an ordered list for nicer formatting of larger footnotes, but all the essentials are stolen from there. I don’t think I’m going to last very long doing this by hand though, I should try and find some way to get Markdown to do it for me. ↩