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Lately I've been pretty busy, so haven't put aside much time to write. However, things have now settled down at work and with my hobbies, so it is worth giving an update.

Early last month Luke Smith posted a video lamenting the fact that recipe websites are incredibly bloated. Between the ads and the endless pages of life stories, it would be worth having a simple website that hosted recipes and nothing else. Fortunately, recipeasly.com provided just that. Unfortunately, their business model consisted of scraping recipes and images from other websites. Aside from the issues of rehosting copyrighted material, food bloggers stood to lose their ad-revenue, and so mobbed the creators. In response, recipeasly was taken down.

Rejecting all that free press (whether good or bad) seems a waste. So I immediately bought the recipeasly.org, .net, and .ca domains and set up a website of my own. So far, you can search recipes, browse by category, or via an image gallery. Each recipe also includes a printable index card. In the upcoming weeks I'll add a submission form, a rating system for each recipe, and possibly comments. Since I started, Luke Smith has also put up the site based.cooking. However, I don't care if my cooking is "based" and Luke is generally opposed to JS, so there is plenty of room for both our websites. As a way of marketing my site, and to ensure each recipe has a photo, I may hold a photo contest in the future with a cash or cryptocurrency prize.