Archive of posts from 2022/02 📝

Over the last month, I have been working with James Van Dyne on IndieWeb Utils, the Python library I published toward the end of last year. IndieWeb Utils aims to provide helper functions that are useful when building applications related to the IndieWeb. For instance, the library contains features like a function to send a webmention and a function to generate a reply context from a web page.

Union Brew Lab is a speciality coffee shop situated on 6-8 South College Street, Edinburgh. Union Brew Lab is owned by Union Hand-Roasted, a large UK speciality coffee roastery.

The Milkman is a speciality coffee business with two locations on Cockburn Street in the City of Edinburgh. Both of The Milkman cafes have a warm and cosy aesthetic.

Cairngorm Coffee is a speciality coffee roastery that owns two cafes in the City of Edinburgh, well-known for serving delicious toasties at its locations.

For all of those that subscribe to my website in a feed or social reader, you may have been wondering why a few pages that do not look like my regular blog posts showed up. The answer to that is that I am now working on a new project: a MediaWiki for sharing breakfast and coffee recommendations to which you can post from your own website.

The latest CSS Tricks newsletter has me energised about what browsers could be. The newsletter makes this point:

Breakfast and Coffee is a place to share your breakfast and coffee recommendations and find new eateries to visit. This page describes how the wiki is built. For information on the community and what to share on the wiki, please refer to the home page.

A coffee crawl is a planned journey where you visit multiple eateries and drink coffees in various establishments, commonly undertaken when a coffee lover visits a new city or area and wants to explore the local coffee scene.

You can submit a post to Breakfast and Coffee by creating a new article on the wiki web page or by publishing a wiki entry on your own site and syndicating your post to the wiki using Webmentions.

Scotland is a country in the United Kingdom. Scotland has a rich speciality coffee culture, with roasteries and coffee shops around the country. Edinburgh and Glasgow are home to many speciality coffee shops. There is also a diverse range of eateries around the country.