Aaron Martin

Anthrax - Among the Living

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:43:51 -0700

Have you ever listened to an album and thought, “Damn, this is so good!”? This was my reaction when listening to Anthrax’s Among the Living for the first time.

Anthrax was a band I always knew of, but never listened to much beyond “Bring Tha Noize” and “Madhouse”. I’m not really sure why, I just never gave them a chance.

I started listening to thrash metal almost exclusively starting back in January or February of this year to get some influences for my band Brain Rott. I finally gave Anthrax a shot and checked out Among the Living.

Whoa. I was immediately hooked! “Caught in a Mosh” and “One World” have some absolutely sick riffs that blew me away.

What have I been doing my whole life not knowing about this album?! Better late than never I suppose!

If you’re a fan of the genre, but haven’t checked out this album, do yourself a favor and give it a whirl!

Starting a blog again

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0600

The main site is one hand-written HTML file and I like it that way. But a single page is a bad home for notes that pile up, so the writing moved here.

Same two colours, same type, same grain. The difference is that this one goes through Hugo, which means a post is a markdown file instead of another block of hand-indented <section>.

Expect notes on test infrastructure, NixOS, and the homelab, with detours into guitars and board games when something is worth writing down.

Typography test

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0600

This post exists to exercise the stylesheet. Every element the theme styles appears below at least once. Delete it once you trust the CSS.

Headings and prose#

A paragraph of body copy set in Space Grotesk at 300 weight. It carries bold text, italic text, inline code, an internal link , an external link that should pick up an arrow, and a Ctrl+C key hint.

A third-level heading#

Headings get a › prompt from CSS and a # anchor on hover.

Lists#

En-dash bullets, not dots
A second item to check the spacing
A third, with code inside it

Ordered lists keep their numbers
Set in the faint ink
Third item

Quotes and rules#

A blockquote sits behind a hairline rule in the muted ink, set in italic. It runs to a second line so the left border has something to measure.

Code#

// Chroma classes, coloured from the same tokens as the rest of the page.
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test'

test('the grain does not intercept clicks', async ({ page }) => {
 await page.goto('/')
 const overlay = page.locator('body')
 await expect(overlay).toHaveCSS('background-color', 'rgb(10, 10, 10)')
})

hugo server --buildDrafts --navigateToChanged

Tables#

Token	Value	Used for
`--paper`	`#0a0a0a`	Page background
`--bone`	`#cdc4ba`	Ink, buttons, selection
`--headings`	`#D05353`	h1–h3, keywords
`--ink-faint`	`#7a756e`	Marks, captions, rules

A wide table scrolls inside its own box rather than widening the page.

A third post, to prove the ordering

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Nothing to see here. This one exists so the list has three entries, the prev/next links at the bottom of a post have somewhere to go, and the tag pages have more than one row.

Delete it whenever.