Welcome to Nathan’s Website and Blog.

Hi there, I’m Nathan Upchurch. Welcome to my personal website and blog, where I write about tech, free and open source software, design, vegan cooking, incense, music, and all sorts of other topics that I find interesting. Learn more about me , see what I’ve been up to lately , or have a look at my latest posts below.

What I've been up to:

A blue neon sign that reads "Time is precious."

Touching Grass

April 2024

I go outside, make more incense, contribute to KDE, and eat brownies.

Latest posts from the blog:

A small pile of short smooth brown incense sticks on a piece of MDF.

A Perplexing Failure

April 2024

My grand designs crumble as I fail to make the most delicious batch of incense ever devised.

A cropped screenshot of my plasma desktop showing a side-panel on the right side of the screen containing the clipboard history widget and the media player widget. On the bottom panel is the Scriptinator plugin, showing a tooltip the following title: "Show Panel," and body text: "Show the hidden right panel."

Setting up a Toggleable Side Panel in KDE Plasma 6

March 2024

Creating a Raven-like side-panel in KDE Plasma 6 that can be toggled with a click using native plasma...

Up to My Eyeballs

February 2024

What I’ve been up to instead of posting on my blog.

An oddly rectangular waffle covered in raspberries. It actually looks quite dry and not very nice. Hopefully there's some syrup on the side!

Let Us Waffle

January 2024

Tools like cooked.wiki let us strip away the cruft from online recipes. Is this necessarily a good thing?

A screenshot of the KMines game window showing a new dark theme.

Making Two New High Contrast Themes for KMines

January 2024

My first KDE contribution! Two new high-contrast KMines themes that will arrive with Plasma 6.