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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Join Homebrew Website Club Today
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
Do you want to chat about personal websites? Are you looking for assistance in building your own website? Are you interested in helping other people learn about websites and share your thoughts about owning a presence on the web? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, consider attending Homebrew Website Club.
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Creative Voices
Published on under the Writing category.
Writing, as I have shared in discussions with many of my friends, helps me think. Through planning and typing words on paper, new ideas come to mind that I had previously not synthesized. Perhaps a scientist could explain why this is the case, or maybe this will remain to be one of the great mysteries behind "creativity." Over the years I have been writing, I have realised that there are a lot of nebulous parts to the creative arts. We all measure quality differently; we all have different standards; we all have diffferent ways of working. Finding how and on what we work best is a great challenge.
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The Melodica
Published on under the Music category.
A few years ago, I started watching clips of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a "late night talk show" broadcast in the US. Jon Batiste and Stay Human play music to accompany the show, sometimes getting involved with what Stephen is talking about. Batiste is well known for playing the melodica, which is featured in his hands throughout many of the clips I have seen where he is present on the camera. The melodica is a keyboard with a mouthpiece. You must blow into the mouthpiece and play a key in order to make a sound. For years, I thought: what a cool instrument. There was a certain lure to the melodica; it called out to me moreso than most other instruments.
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Some thoughts on walled gardens
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
You may have read the term "walled gardens" used to refer to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The term is used in the context of technology to describe a platform that is not easily extensible or open. If you use a tool that operates as a walled garden, there are defined interactions that you can and cannot do. Developers might get a bit more leeway to do more with a platform -- so they can build tools that work with said platform -- but over the last few years this has not been prevalent.
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Poll: How much coffee you drink in a day? [Results]
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
The results to my poll asking "How much coffee do you drink in a day?" are in. Here are the votes cast: