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.
I like to brew coffee at home. I usually use the Tricolate 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. I sometimes write about websites and web development. I also play the Melodica.
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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York Coffee Recommendations
Published on under the Coffee category.
I spent the weekend in York after making a somewhat spontaneous decision to visit the city this month. York is an excellent destination for people who enjoy history. There is religious, Roman, royal, political, governmental, and other roots of history to be found in the area. I am astounded at the age of many of the old buildings in the city. It's not every day you can say you saw a cathedral whose construction began over 800 years ago (York Minster).
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Linking to GitHub repositories from my own site
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
After a discussion with Tantek in the IndieWeb chat [1], I decided to do more work towards my "own your links" project. My first pass at this was to create /github/ and /instagram/ links on this domain that take you to my GitHub and Instagram pages, respectively. The idea is that I can refer people to my profiles by using a link that I own rather than pointing to the platform-first link. It's a small difference but one that I care about.
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Owning my links
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
Tantek shared that he has links on his website that post to other social media profiles he owns. This became a topic of discussion in the IndieWeb chat (if you are not a member and like talking about the web, you should definitely join us!). We have not yet fully arrived at a way to articulate the pattern of having a link on your site that takes you to another profile or resource you own on the web. The best we have right now is "own your links." I prepared a stub IndieWeb wiki page for this concept earlier today to keep the discussion going and encourage more thought on this topic.
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Growing houseplants
Published on under the Plants category.
While I was on a Zoom call two weeks ago, I noticed something that ignited a great sense of excitement. The parlor palm on my desk, which I have had since last year, started to grow leaves. This excited me because after months of few signs of growth, the plant was now changing.
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Starting sentences with conjunctions isn't bad practice?
Published on under the Web category.
I have gone down a mini rabbit hole. Unlike many rabbit holes, I can map out how I got here. I perused Adactio's blog, saw a link to a blog about writing, and clicked on an article that looked interesting. Then I read a piece of advice about writing more, saw a link to another site, then clicked on another article that looked interesting. I went through three different sites to find the article I found, all the while not seeking any piece of information in particular. Like all things, internet rabbit hole exploration can be fun and teach you a thing or two. Like all things too, moderation is advised.