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Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or specialized cheese paper makes an ideal wrapping. If you must use plastic, be sure to use fresh wrap each time you re-wrap it. I store my cheese in a drawer in the refrigerator (or store it in a plastic storage container in the fridge). Cheese absorbs flavors, so keep cheese away from other strongscented foods, such as onions or briny olives.

Six Seasons

Joshua McFadden

Observationally, I would say that there's little correlation between expertise and kit-optimization in our field, positive or negative. The lesson here is to be careful with the signals you use as proxies for competence. "Has the perfect Visual Studio config", "has spoken at loads of conferences", and "visible on Hacker News"[4](https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html#foot4) seem like strong signals, when the reality seems to be that they are weak ones, at best.

The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise

marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)

I thought it was notable that by making some minor tweaks to Ruby code it can now outperform a precompiled statically typed language in a purpose-built example of when it is slow. I’m hopeful that someday with future advancements in the Ruby JIT even the small tweaks might not be necessary.

Ruby Might Be Faster Than You Think

johnhawthorn.com

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