James' Coffee Blog
About Me 👋
Hello! I'm James (also capjamesg). My pronouns are he/him/his. I live in Scotland, UK. This is my blog, themed to celebrate the upcoming holiday season ❄️.
I like to brew coffee at home. I usually use the Aeropress, V60, Chemex, or Kalita Wave to brew my coffee.
On this blog, I share my thoughts on all things coffee and I interview people who work in coffee, with a particular emphasis on the Scottish coffee industry.
I sometimes write about websites and web development. My email address is readers@jamesg.blog. I sometimes post on Instagram.
I also contribute to the IndieWeb wiki. I have open sourced some code on GitHub.
Blog Posts 📝
Below are the most recent articles I have written.
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Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 3
Published on under the Advent of Bloggers (Series) category.
I am writing a blog post every day from December 1st to December 24th, 2021, about a blogger whose writing or site I follow. My aim for this series is to help you discover new blogs and to help get the word out about content creators whose blogs I appreciate. You can read more about this series in the inaugural post where I chat more about this series. Let's begin!
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Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 2
Published on under the Advent of Bloggers (Series) category.
I am writing a blog post every day from December 1st to December 24th, 2021, about a blogger whose writing or site I follow. My aim for this series is to help you discover new blogs and to help get the word out about content creators whose blogs I appreciate. You can read more about this series in the inaugural post where I chat more about this series. Let's begin!
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Advent of Bloggers 2021
Published on under the Advent of Bloggers (Series) category.
For the last week or two, I have been thinking whether there is a December blogging series I could take on, similar to how Advent of Code publishes a new coding challenge every day throughout Advent. I thought that I would just continue with my regular blogging until yesterday when I came up with an idea: write a blog post every day of Advent that talks about a particular blog I like. I am calling this my "advent of bloggers" series.
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Moving over to my own static site generator
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
I have been thinking about building a static generator for a while. I enjoy using static site generation to build my site but up until now I have deferred the actual logic behind site generation to Jekyll. This was perfect at the beginning because my site was more about writing with the occasional page change. Now, however, I am interested in expanding my site with a bit more code.
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Discovering new music (with recommendations)
Published on under the Music category.
The primary ways in which I discover new music are: (i) by looking for other songs written by artists who have written songs I like; (ii) looking for artists who have done collaborations with artists whose music I love and; (iii) using Spotify to look for songs that might interest me. Spotify shines when it plays a random song next. I tend to just scroll through lists of songs in playlists but when Spotify plays a song automatically I tend to find something new. This does not always work, but thus far I have found so many great songs by listening to Spotify. This list is not exhaustive but indicative of my primary ways of finding new songs and artists.