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 build for the web. I also enjoy experimenting with new programming languages.
On this blog, I write about the open web and coffee. Every two weeks, I co-host the Europe Homebrew Website Club.
My email address is readers@jamesg.blog.
I also contribute to the IndieWeb wiki. I have open sourced some code on GitHub and Sourcehut.
Blog Posts 📝
Below are the most recent articles I have written.
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Joining my first W3C Sustainability CG meeting
Published on under the Web category.
Organisers at the W3C are working on various initiatives related to sustainability. Over the last few months, two new community groups (CGs) were started to focus on sustainability and how it pertains to the web and the W3C as an organisation. [^1] After doing some reading about the revived Sustainable Web (sustyweb) group, I decided to join and see how I could help.
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Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention (Talk Announcement)
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
What is Webmention? What can I build on top of the Webmention protocol? How do I start sending and receiving Webmentions? These are three questions I'm going to answer in my upcoming talk on Codementor Events: Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention.
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The IndieWeb (according to ChatGPT)
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
Earlier today, I was playing around with OpenAI's new ChatGPT model. I have thus far asked ChatGPT what coffee is, how to boil a kettle, what microformats is, and what the IndieWeb is. I thought I'd share the result I got for the prompt "What is the IndieWeb?":
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New Orleans 2022
Published on under the Photos category.
Last week, I visited the US for the first time. I travelled to New Orleans. After two connecting flights from Scotland and almost a full day of travel, I arrived greeted by warmth, despite the late hour. I couldn't believe how warm the weather was. I took a few photos on the trip that I want to share here on my blog.
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Send a Webmention in 10 (or fewer) lines of Python code
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
Webmentions enable distributed social interactions over the web. Using webmentions, you can send replies, likes, and other interactions that were published on your site to respond to another web page. For example, I send Webmentions for all of the bookmarks I create on my website. If a site can receive Webmentions, they will be notified that I bookmarked their post for later.
