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• Know your model outputs while writing logic (February 14, 2024)
• Making my bookshelves clickable (February 14, 2024)
• Super Bowl LVIII (February 12, 2024)
• Little moments of joy (February 09, 2024)
• Dancing (February 08, 2024)
• My first experience with coffee (February 08, 2024)
• The rain (February 01, 2024)
• The indie web (January 27, 2024)
• Moments of joy (January 25, 2024)
• Follow the on-screen instructions (January 19, 2024)
• Scenes from the coffee shop (January 19, 2024)
• Using components to avoid repetition in technical writing (January 19, 2024)
• The what, why, how formula of technical writing (January 18, 2024)
• A comprehensive guide to Python dictionary comprehensions (January 17, 2024)
• Using "will" and "should" in technical writing (January 17, 2024)
• My favourite data structure: The trie (January 16, 2024)
• Wonder (January 15, 2024)
• What type of cheese are you? (January 15, 2024)
• You can make a time machine (January 12, 2024)
• Information coding: Encoding sorted lists of information (January 12, 2024)
• Reflecting on my daily walks (January 11, 2024)
• Blogging as I learn (January 11, 2024)
• BioCLIP: A vision model for the Tree of Life (January 11, 2024)
• Contibuting text from LLMs to public domain wikis (January 11, 2024)
• Documentation I Like: PyTorch Installation (January 10, 2024)
• How (and why) to create a h-feed (January 10, 2024)
• My Folklore ranking (January 09, 2024)
• Edinburgh (January 09, 2024)
• Give someone a compliment today (January 08, 2024)
• What stories are on your desk? (January 08, 2024)
• Anxiety (January 07, 2024)
• How a blog post came to be: Behind the scenes (January 06, 2024)
• Taylor Swift Quiz (January 06, 2024)
• The web is yours (January 06, 2024)
• Adventures in nginx caching and redirects (January 05, 2024)
• Adventures with compression: Part 4 (January 04, 2024)
• Nighthawks (January 04, 2024)
• What anime hair colour suits me? (January 04, 2024)
• Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook (January 03, 2024)
• Adventures with compression: Part 3 (January 02, 2024)
• Happy New Year! (January 01, 2024)
• The park (January 01, 2024)
• Walking every day in January (January 01, 2024)
• More adventures with compression (January 01, 2024)
• Midnight reflections (December 30, 2023)
• Small towns (December 29, 2023)
• The well-trodden path (December 29, 2023)
• Guessthechar: A guess the missing letter game (December 29, 2023)
• Adventures with compression 🟧 (December 29, 2023)
• Small, dependable scripts (December 29, 2023)
• When you want to write a blog post but can't... (December 28, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Callout Boxes (December 25, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Effective Examples (December 25, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Feature Releases (December 25, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Code Snippets (December 25, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Reviewing Digital Ocean's Documentation (December 25, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Being a Technical Writer (December 24, 2023)
• Happy Festivus (December 23, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Publishing Contributor Blog Posts (December 23, 2023)
• Displaying Taylor Swift lyrics on my desk (December 22, 2023)
• Donating books (December 22, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Jargon (December 22, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Consistent Examples (December 21, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: How-To Outline (December 20, 2023)
• Is writing customer-facing documentation technical writing? (December 19, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Holistic Documentation Reviews (December 19, 2023)
• The James' Coffee Blog scavenger hunt (December 18, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Reviewing the Wolfram Language Documentation (December 18, 2023)
• My year in blogging (December 17, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Outlines (December 17, 2023)
• Raccoon Ipsum (December 16, 2023)
• Christmas Tree (December 16, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Authoring Tools (December 16, 2023)
• The stars (December 15, 2023)
• My writing setup (December 15, 2023)
• Building a personal predictive text engine (December 15, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Internal Code Documentation Requirements (December 15, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Run-on Sentences (December 14, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Facilitating Ideas (December 13, 2023)
• Moments of Joy: Technical Solutions (December 12, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Placeholders 🟧 (December 12, 2023)
• Recommend Firefox (with a Web Component) (December 12, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Internal Dry Run (December 11, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Deprecating Content (December 10, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Style 🟧 (December 09, 2023)
• Building a lyrics recommendation bot (December 08, 2023)
• The Festive Season (December 08, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Duplicate Information (December 08, 2023)
• Podcasts, Wrapped (December 07, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Lists (December 07, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Clarity ⭐ (December 06, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: A Day in the Life (December 05, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Types of Documentation (December 04, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: First Sentences (December 03, 2023)
• Winter (December 02, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Navigation Links (December 02, 2023)
• Advent of Technical Writing: Navigation Structure ⭐ 🟧 (December 02, 2023)
• Spotify Wrapped (November 29, 2023)
• My experience starting as a technical writer (November 27, 2023)
• The Taxi Driver (November 24, 2023)
• Time Travel (November 24, 2023)
• My personal website is incomplete, imperfect (November 24, 2023)
• The Selfie (November 23, 2023)
• The Bicyclist (November 23, 2023)
• Self Care (October 21, 2023)
• Seasons (October 15, 2023)
• Or wherever you get your podcasts (October 14, 2023)
• Tips and reflections from running online meetups (October 14, 2023)
• Alternative modalities of interacting with the web (October 14, 2023)
• Autumn (October 01, 2023)
• The Early Bird (October 01, 2023)
• The Squirrel (October 01, 2023)
• Experiments with pose detection in Tensorflow.js (October 01, 2023)
• Click your fingers and talk to navigate a website (October 01, 2023)
• PyPi, the Cheese Shop (September 30, 2023)
• London Sunrise (September 27, 2023)
• Weather (September 27, 2023)
• Blooming (September 16, 2023)
• The Glint (September 13, 2023)
• Continental Breakfast (September 13, 2023)
• Growth (September 09, 2023)
• Perspectives (September 04, 2023)
• Noticing running gags (September 04, 2023)
• Background music (September 04, 2023)
• World Maps (September 04, 2023)
• Brainstorming Google Sheets to maps website (September 04, 2023)
• Ensure all subpath layers resolve in URLs (September 04, 2023)
• Thoughts on teaching generative text literacy (September 02, 2023)
• The Reflection (September 02, 2023)
• The Algorithmic Poem? (September 02, 2023)
• Palm Trees in Scotland (September 02, 2023)
• Writing introductions in technical tutorials (September 02, 2023)
• Lost sunglasses (August 31, 2023)
• Brainstorming a syntax for a word usage query language (August 28, 2023)
• The Familiar Tune (August 27, 2023)
• The Guitarist (August 27, 2023)
• Autumn (August 26, 2023)
• The Python dictionary dispatch pattern 🟧 (August 26, 2023)
• The one with the Standing Desk (August 26, 2023)
• Gardening (August 26, 2023)
• Rainy Mornings (August 26, 2023)
• Taylor Swift (August 26, 2023)
• How minimal is too minimal? Brainstorming syntax for VisionScript (August 23, 2023)
• Brainstorming a daily scavenger hunt game (August 12, 2023)
• Blog about what you want (August 06, 2023)
• Build an internal link recommendation API in 25 lines of code (August 04, 2023)
• July 2023 IndieWeb Carnival Roundup (August 04, 2023)
• SWICG Email: Community Events Calendar and Website (August 03, 2023)
• Help Build the Social Web (August 03, 2023)
• Brainstorming Webmention post discovery (August 01, 2023)
• How I, Spy Works (My 60 Minute Website) (August 01, 2023)
• I am now a co-chair on the W3C Social Web Community Group (July 31, 2023)
• Brainstorming minimal, single-purpose web tools (July 30, 2023)
• Be nice. Drink water. Smile. (July 30, 2023)
• Build a Website in an Hour: Meetup in Review (July 30, 2023)
• Fun with Words: The Finale (July 30, 2023)
• Coffee Preparation (July 28, 2023)
• Moments (July 27, 2023)
• The Airport (July 23, 2023)
• Build a website in an hour event (July 19, 2023)
• Starlight (July 16, 2023)
• Episode #4: Children’s television, static websites, all things coffee (July 15, 2023)
• Playful programming (July 15, 2023)
• Neighbourhood cats (July 14, 2023)
• A Visual Introduction to VisionScript (July 09, 2023)
• Use case-driven standards development (July 08, 2023)
• Podcast #3: Bubbles, programming languages, use-case driven development (July 08, 2023)
• Podcast #2: Taylor Swift, dreams for the web, tea (July 02, 2023)
• How to Delete a Webmention (July 02, 2023)
• Fun with Words (July 01, 2023)
• IndieWeb Carnival July 2023: Moments of Joy (July 01, 2023)
• Maintaining mf2py (June 29, 2023)
• Moonlight (June 27, 2023)
• James Coffee Blog Show (June 25, 2023)
• Train vignettes (June 24, 2023)
• Fun with Words (June 20, 2023)
• Jon Batiste (June 20, 2023)
• As the world goes by (June 19, 2023)
• Trees (June 19, 2023)
• Writing and distance (June 19, 2023)
• In one's element (June 19, 2023)
• Cinnamon (June 19, 2023)
• Moments of Joy: More little bites (June 17, 2023)
• Exploring word surprisals and authorship verification (June 16, 2023)
• Morning (June 15, 2023)
• Summer (June 15, 2023)
• Word surprisal for automated linking and glossaries (June 15, 2023)
• Colourful shirts (June 14, 2023)
• Fun with Words (June 14, 2023)
• Things that make me say wow (June 14, 2023)
• Fun with Words (June 10, 2023)
• selfcare.tech Bot on Mastodon (June 05, 2023)
• Announcing linguist.link: NLP insights for web pages (June 03, 2023)
• Creating an index for my personal website using NLP (June 03, 2023)
• Fun with Words (June 01, 2023)
• The weed (May 29, 2023)
• Morning sun (May 27, 2023)
• Chicago Manual of Style (May 27, 2023)
• Background music (May 27, 2023)
• Pavement games (May 27, 2023)
• Moments of Joy (May 27, 2023)
• CBBC and television programming for young people (May 27, 2023)
• Tiny vignettes (May 27, 2023)
• Fun with Words (May 27, 2023)
• Plain language and clear communication (May 27, 2023)
• Brainstorming a coffee label reader application (May 27, 2023)
• Clouds (May 22, 2023)
• How to Start a Garden (May 22, 2023)
• OpenAI Blog RSS Feed (May 21, 2023)
• Announcing stories.js: Create web stories on your personal website (May 21, 2023)
• Announcing airportpianos.org: Help place pianos with airports (May 19, 2023)
• Fun with Words (May 11, 2023)
• Starting the Day (May 09, 2023)
• Connection (May 09, 2023)
• Heart and Soul (May 09, 2023)
• The Peace Lily (May 08, 2023)
• Seated (May 08, 2023)
• Fun with Words (May 07, 2023)
• When the sun shines (May 07, 2023)
• Moments of joy: Little bites (May 07, 2023)
• Bring sunglasses (May 07, 2023)
• Fun with Words (May 06, 2023)
• Announcing subscribable feeds for Bluesky profiles (May 06, 2023)
• LLMs and Open Source Software (May 06, 2023)
• Fun with Words (May 04, 2023)
• Fun with Words (Second Edition Today) (May 04, 2023)
• Brainstorming an organization to place pianos in airports (April 29, 2023)
• Awesome, in the traditional sense of the word (April 29, 2023)
• The museum (April 29, 2023)
• Midnight philosophy ⭐ (April 23, 2023)
• Writing a story (April 22, 2023)
• Airport delays (April 22, 2023)
• Paradise (April 22, 2023)
• Feeling all the things at once (April 22, 2023)
• Fun with Words (April 21, 2023)
• Sunglasses (April 21, 2023)
• The Song: Part II (April 21, 2023)
• The Song (April 21, 2023)
• Announcing bsky.link, an embed link generator for Bluesky (April 20, 2023)
• Space (April 20, 2023)
• The Pond (April 20, 2023)
• The Garlic (April 19, 2023)
• Trees (April 19, 2023)
• Favourite television couples (April 18, 2023)
• My source code root folder name (April 18, 2023)
• Squirrels in a York park (April 18, 2023)
• The Solo Singer (April 17, 2023)
• The Fog (April 17, 2023)
• Activation Functions in Lisp (April 17, 2023)
• In search of a mobile writing experience (April 17, 2023)
• Fun with Words (April 17, 2023)
• Reorganizing my site home page (April 17, 2023)
• Thinking Modalities (April 17, 2023)
• Implicitly downplaying knowledge in technical communication ⭐ (April 17, 2023)
• Fun with Words (April 17, 2023)
• Deep in Thought (April 17, 2023)
• CS193p (April 15, 2023)
• Loneliness (April 15, 2023)
• Little moments of joy on the web (April 14, 2023)
• Tea Routines in the UK (April 14, 2023)
• Write a little moment of joy (April 14, 2023)
• Technical Estimations (April 14, 2023)
• Fun with Words (April 14, 2023)
• Porridge Overflow (April 14, 2023)
• The Rain (April 13, 2023)
• More Fun with Words (April 13, 2023)
• Hobonichi Journal (April 13, 2023)
• Exploring Personal Websites (April 13, 2023)
• Birds (April 13, 2023)
• Taylor Swift songs to which I am listening (April 13, 2023)
• Hobonichi Journal My 100 (April 13, 2023)
• Videoconferencing on a personal website (April 11, 2023)
• sudo !! (April 08, 2023)
• Abbreviations, acronyms, and style guides (April 08, 2023)
• Brandenburg Gate (April 08, 2023)
• Fun with Words c6d480 (April 08, 2023)
• 'What is the name of that song?' (April 08, 2023)
• TIL: Create HTML boilerplate code in Visual Studio Code (April 08, 2023)
• Fun with Words: Computer science jargon edition (April 06, 2023)
• Words of the day (April 06, 2023)
• Writing moods (April 06, 2023)
• Chiefs of Staff (April 05, 2023)
• A story from visiting the Golden Gate Bridge (April 05, 2023)
• Generating a PDF from a folder of Markdown files (April 05, 2023)
• Coloured cups and teaching (April 05, 2023)
• Cash as a payment option (April 05, 2023)
• Seeing your content at the top of a search results page (April 05, 2023)
• Possessive nouns ending in 's' (April 05, 2023)
• Using footnotes for link reminders while writing (April 05, 2023)
• More Little Moments of Joy (April 04, 2023)
• Wikipedia articles I have read lately (April 04, 2023)
• The Platform (April 04, 2023)
• Personal Websites and the Open Internet (April 04, 2023)
• Announcing Screenshots: How I generate meta images for my site (April 04, 2023)
• Grayscale: A week on (April 02, 2023)
• Throwbacks and Brainstorming Timehop for Blogs (April 02, 2023)
• Using LLM Prompts for Source Attribution (April 02, 2023)
• Words I have heard and read recently (April 01, 2023)
• Writing and inspiration (April 01, 2023)
• Prompt versioning with LLMs (April 01, 2023)
• I'm working on a new version of my printed blog (March 28, 2023)
• Grayscale (March 27, 2023)
• Observations designing information retrieval systems built on generative AI (March 27, 2023)
• Travelling (March 05, 2023)
• Travelling in a Self-Driving Car (March 03, 2023)
• San Francisco City (March 03, 2023)
• Send a Trackback in Two Lines of Code (March 03, 2023)
• Solitude in third places (March 01, 2023)
• Where the people are sweeter than the waffles (February 28, 2023)
• Sunset in San Francisco (February 28, 2023)
• When the moment strikes (February 27, 2023)
• IndieWeb Principles Poster (February 27, 2023)
• The taxicab (February 27, 2023)
• For how long are you staying in San Francisco? 10 minutes. (February 27, 2023)
• Infrastructure dance (February 27, 2023)
• Love and Playing Music (February 27, 2023)
• Blue, lavender, orange (February 27, 2023)
• Ethereal (February 27, 2023)
• Stories from the piano (February 18, 2023)
• Little moments of joy (February 16, 2023)
• Technical content and a-ha moments (February 13, 2023)
• Announcing commandk.js, a search dialog web component (February 13, 2023)
• Announcing avtr.dev (February 11, 2023)
• Announcing recipe syndication for Breakfast and Coffee (February 11, 2023)
• Orea Brewer Recipe (February 11, 2023)
• GitHub commit messages and emojis (February 10, 2023)
• Words, words, and more words (February 10, 2023)
• Who has the most compute? (February 06, 2023)
• Happy Groundhog Day (February 02, 2023)
• The definition of tabled (January 29, 2023)
• Acts of kindness (January 29, 2023)
• Fun with search (January 24, 2023)
• Favourite words (January 24, 2023)
• Giving my first talk (January 23, 2023)
• The (not so awkward?) shuffle (January 03, 2023)
• Taking a break from personal projects: Mental health and coding (January 03, 2023)
• 100 Days of IndieWeb Challenge (January 02, 2023)
• Happy New Year (January 01, 2023)
• The Guardian Article Counts (January 01, 2023)
• A quote from the Beaker Browser wind-down notice (December 30, 2022)
• Writing code with GitHub Copilot for personal projects and expressing ideas (December 30, 2022)
• A cappuccino emoji? (December 30, 2022)
• Create a sparkline showing your MediaWiki contributions (December 30, 2022)
• Seasonal emojis for your personal website (December 30, 2022)
• Announcing highlight.js, an extension to highlight text on web pages (December 30, 2022)
• The comfort of rewatching 90s sitcoms (December 30, 2022)
• Documentation in chat: A case study from the IndieWeb (December 30, 2022)
• Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention (Talk Announcement) (December 02, 2022)
• The IndieWeb (according to ChatGPT) (December 01, 2022)
• New Orleans 2022 (November 15, 2022)
• Send a Webmention in 10 (or fewer) lines of Python code (October 21, 2022)
• Announcing IndieWeb Utils v0.4.0 (with reflections on the library) (October 12, 2022)
• Adding hovercards to my website (October 12, 2022)
• Adding fragmention links to my website (October 11, 2022)
• Announcing IndieWeb Utils v0.3.1 (October 10, 2022)
• Announcing getsitemap, a Python library for sitemap URL retrieval (October 09, 2022)
• Joining my first W3C Sustainability CG meeting (October 04, 2022)
• Photo: Robin (September 28, 2022)
• Adding review support to Breakfast and Coffee (September 11, 2022)
• Hosting a fun DNS server with Go and a DNS library (September 09, 2022)
• Beyond Tellerrand 2022 (September 07, 2022)
• TIL: Fixing the author card on my home page h-feed (September 07, 2022)
• Berlin 2022 - More Photos (September 07, 2022)
• I wrote an article for Sprudge (September 06, 2022)
• Building an 'on this day' feature for my website (September 06, 2022)
• Poll: Do you watch The Chase? (August 25, 2022)
• Is Firefox a search engine? (August 25, 2022)
• Subscribe to IANA Root KSK signing and Google algorithm update events (August 22, 2022)
• Building an IRC archiver bot for the IndieWeb community (August 21, 2022)
• TIL: Terminal shortcuts (August 17, 2022)
• TIL: Don't actually display the man pages (August 15, 2022)
• TIL: Using sed to replace text in a file (August 14, 2022)
• A few things I just learned about Lisp (August 12, 2022)
• Separating I/O and logic (August 05, 2022)
• A one-liner to get root paths in my sitemap (August 03, 2022)
• Creating maps to share the coffee shops I have visited (June 30, 2022)
• Join Homebrew Website Club Today (June 29, 2022)
• Creative Voices (June 09, 2022)
• The Melodica (June 08, 2022)
• Some thoughts on walled gardens (June 07, 2022)
• Poll: How much coffee you drink in a day? [Results] (May 31, 2022)
• Linking to GitHub repositories from my own site (May 25, 2022)
• York Coffee Recommendations (May 25, 2022)
• Growing houseplants (May 19, 2022)
• Owning my links (May 19, 2022)
• Sparklines in Google Sheets (May 18, 2022)
• Starting sentences with conjunctions isn't bad practice? (May 18, 2022)
• You don't need to be an expert to write (May 18, 2022)
• Learning PHP: The Beginning (May 18, 2022)
• Poll: How much coffee you drink in a day? (May 17, 2022)
• Distributed polls on your personal website (May 17, 2022)
• Plurality and the IndieWeb (May 16, 2022)
• Using Known for posting notes, likes, and bookmarks (May 16, 2022)
• Using the Tricolate coffee brewer (April 10, 2022)
• First day of spring (March 20, 2022)
• Computer-generated art (March 20, 2022)
• A photo from last weekend (March 18, 2022)
• The Fellow Ode grinder: a few weeks later (March 18, 2022)
• How can I improve the typography on my site? (March 17, 2022)
• IndieWeb Utils v0.2.0 is Out (February 16, 2022)
• Union Brew Lab (February 07, 2022)
• Cairngorm Coffee (February 04, 2022)
• The Milkman (February 04, 2022)
• What could a browser be? (February 03, 2022)
• Coffee Crawl (February 03, 2022)
• about this wiki (February 03, 2022)
• Breakfast and Coffee: A wiki for sharing food and drink recommendations (February 03, 2022)
• Submit (February 02, 2022)
• Category:Edinburgh (February 02, 2022)
• Cheapshot Coffee (February 02, 2022)
• Fortitude Coffee (February 02, 2022)
• Integrated IndieWeb Services (January 28, 2022)
• Some things on my mind (January 27, 2022)
• How my social reader search features work (January 24, 2022)
• Improving my social reader experience on mobile (January 21, 2022)
• Annotating my website page structure (January 20, 2022)
• Using my social reader as a progressive web application (January 19, 2022)
• How I post notes on my website (January 18, 2022)
• Social readers, a new way of thinking about social web interactions (January 17, 2022)
• Programming, cooking, and making what you want to use (January 14, 2022)
• IndieWeb Search results are also feeds (January 13, 2022)
• Movies I have watched recently (January 12, 2022)
• Parse IndieWeb Search in 15 lines of Python code (January 11, 2022)
• Scaling IndieWeb Search (January 10, 2022)
• Brainstorming Email to RSS: Part 2 (January 08, 2022)
• What communities are you in? (January 08, 2022)
• Microsub to Blogroll Idea (January 07, 2022)
• Brainstorming Email to RSS (January 06, 2022)
• Overcomplicating post types (and committing to more simple ones) (January 04, 2022)
• Keep It Simple, Silly (January 04, 2022)
• Happy New Year (January 01, 2022)
• Music by The Beatles (January 01, 2022)
• Drinking tea in the afternoon (December 24, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: The Final Edition (December 24, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 23 (December 23, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 22 (December 22, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 21 (December 21, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 20 (December 20, 2021)
• Announcing indieweb-utils (December 20, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 19 (December 19, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 18 (December 18, 2021)
• IndieWeb New Years' Eve Commitment: Expanding my person tags (December 17, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 17 (December 17, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 16 (December 16, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 15 (December 15, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 14 (December 14, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 13 (December 13, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 12 (December 12, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 11 (December 11, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 10 (December 10, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 9 (December 09, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 8 (December 08, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 7 (December 07, 2021)
• My Edinburgh Field Report is in Barista Magazine (December 06, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 6 (December 06, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 5 (December 05, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 4 (December 04, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 3 (December 03, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 2 (December 02, 2021)
• Advent of Bloggers 2021 ⭐ (December 01, 2021)
• Moving over to my own static site generator (November 30, 2021)
• Playing Scrabble (November 28, 2021)
• Discovering new music (with recommendations) (November 28, 2021)
• A quick thank you to my readers (November 25, 2021)
• Building a Feed Reader to Follow Blogs and Websites: Part I (November 23, 2021)
• Introducing the HyperText Coffee Pot (November 18, 2021)
• Adding dark mode to my static Jekyll site (November 17, 2021)
• I love my website (November 16, 2021)
• Getting back into Vinyl (November 15, 2021)
• Exploring retro web design (November 12, 2021)
• Freezing coffee beans (November 04, 2021)
• Why I publish microformats on my website (October 27, 2021)
• Adding Reacji support to my Micropub editor (October 25, 2021)
• Coffee Filtration: A Guide (October 22, 2021)
• Adding reply context to my social pages (October 19, 2021)
• Building my own IndieAuth Endpoint (October 18, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Conor from HBW Coffee (September 29, 2021)
• How to make a plant monitor dashboard: Part III (September 28, 2021)
• Weeknotes #1: The Beginning (September 27, 2021)
• Building my own webmention receiver (September 22, 2021)
• How to make a plant monitor dashboard: Part II (September 21, 2021)
• Some things to keep in mind if you build a search engine (September 20, 2021)
• Why I am Building IndieWeb Search (September 15, 2021)
• How to Make a Cold Foam Iced Coffee at Home (September 14, 2021)
• My New Social Pages (September 13, 2021)
• How my search engine direct answers work (September 10, 2021)
• A theory on sour coffee and cheap grinders (September 09, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Gillian from MAYZE Finnieston (September 08, 2021)
• How to make a plant monitor dashboard: Part I (September 07, 2021)
• My search engine has moved to IndieWeb Search (September 06, 2021)
• Bookshelf (September 05, 2021)
• Sharing social interactions with Micropub (September 02, 2021)
• Starbucks' influence on my interest in speciality coffee (August 30, 2021)
• Flavour attributes I like in coffee (August 27, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Hannah from the Manchester Coffee Festival (August 26, 2021)
• Fixing a line width issue on this blog (August 25, 2021)
• Ordering espresso at cafes (August 24, 2021)
• Sounds of the cafe (August 23, 2021)
• Building a random Aeropress recipe generator for my search engine (August 20, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Pete from Black Pine Coffee (August 18, 2021)
• A Future for Packaging With Manifesto Coffee (Barista Magazine) (August 12, 2021)
• Quiet Edinburgh Zine Launch (August 11, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Darryl from Short Long Black Coffee (August 09, 2021)
• Weighing search results on my personal search engine (August 06, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Author Lani Kingston (August 05, 2021)
• How my blog search engine works, briefly (August 04, 2021)
• Build your own web home page: Tutorial (August 03, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Fraser from EH9 ESPRESSO (August 02, 2021)
• Edinburgh's police box cafes (feature in Barista Magazine Online) (July 23, 2021)
• Implementing TextRank on my blog search engine (July 22, 2021)
• Building a search engine for my blog: Part II (July 21, 2021)
• Building a search engine for my blog (July 20, 2021)
• Using Keybow to build custom keyboard functions (July 19, 2021)
• Writing physical letters (July 16, 2021)
• Coffee and food pairings (July 15, 2021)
• Old photos (July 14, 2021)
• My weekday coffee routine (July 13, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Angela from The Barista League (July 12, 2021)
• Brazilian coffees and flavour notes (July 09, 2021)
• How I store coffee at home (July 08, 2021)
• A short word on decaf coffee (July 07, 2021)
• The Aromaboy: A month (or so) on (July 06, 2021)
• Blogs I follow using RSS (July 05, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: Printing hcards (July 02, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: IndieWeb Wiki (July 01, 2021)
• Recycling coffee packaging (June 30, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Mandy from Mandy's Daily Grind (June 29, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project was mentioned on the Adafruit Blog (June 28, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: How I Print Events (June 28, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with William from It All Started Here (June 25, 2021)
• Edinburgh New College (Photo) (June 25, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Robert from Brew Culture Coffee and Tea (June 24, 2021)
• I was featured in Coffee People (June 23, 2021)
• I was featured on Rubenerd's blog (June 22, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: Part III (June 22, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: Part II.5 (June 21, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: Part II (June 18, 2021)
• The Thermal Printer Project: Part I (June 17, 2021)
• What made you start James' Coffee Blog? (June 16, 2021)
• My growing mug collection (June 15, 2021)
• Saving my blog posts in one single .docx file (June 14, 2021)
• Creating my GitHub README.md (June 10, 2021)
• Blog about what you are learning (June 08, 2021)
• Guess the Scottish Cafe (June 07, 2021)
• The printed blog (June 04, 2021)
• How I built this website (May 28, 2021)
• Game: Guess the Edinburgh Cafe (Part 3) (May 24, 2021)
• How do I start brewing coffee at home? (May 20, 2021)
• Tasting pour-over coffee at different points of extraction (May 19, 2021)
• Coffee Ratio Calculator Tool (May 18, 2021)
• Game: Guess the Edinburgh Cafe (Part 2) (May 17, 2021)
• My first brew with the Aromaboy (May 14, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with The Drip in Edinburgh (May 13, 2021)
• How to Shake Up Your Aeropress Recipe (May 11, 2021)
• Game: Guess the Edinburgh Cafe (May 10, 2021)
• Brewing with the Aeropress in the park (May 07, 2021)
• Drinking coffee out of a smaller cup (May 06, 2021)
• Speciality coffee shops in Edinburgh I have visited (May 05, 2021)
• Notes from a coffee crawl (May 04, 2021)
• More testing with the Hario V60 (April 30, 2021)
• Coffee documentaries I have watched (April 29, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Tim Williams from World Aeropress Championship (April 28, 2021)
• My experience using a cloth Aeropress filter (April 27, 2021)
• How I am brewing with the Aeropress (April 26, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Luke from Standart (April 23, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Jordan from Grumpy Mule (April 22, 2021)
• Sweet Bean Paste Book Review (April 20, 2021)
• My Hario V60 continuous pour recipe (April 20, 2021)
• Make cold brew at home with no fancy equipment (April 19, 2021)
• Complex and not so complex coffees (April 15, 2021)
• Taking a break from home espresso (April 14, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Kat from Coffee People (April 13, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Dan from Machina Coffee (April 12, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with James from PuckPuck (April 10, 2021)
• My first cloth-filtered coffee (April 09, 2021)
• The Chemex: A week or two on (April 08, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Barista and Barista Trainer Millie (@thatgirlfromthecafe) (April 07, 2021)
• The Housekeeper and The Professor Book Review (April 06, 2021)
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles Book Review (April 06, 2021)
• The Midnight Library Book Review (April 06, 2021)
• The Great Passage by Shion Miura Book Review (April 06, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Robbie from Canary Girl Coffee Company (April 05, 2021)
• Coffee origins I have tried so far (April 02, 2021)
• My two-cup Chemex recipe (April 02, 2021)
• My first go at making an affogato (April 02, 2021)
• How to Read a Coffee Label (April 01, 2021)
• Five Ways to Make Coffee at Home (April 01, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Giulia from The Milkman (March 31, 2021)
• A Beginner's Introduction to Grinding Coffee at Home (March 30, 2021)
• Brewing one cup of coffee with the Chemex (March 30, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with John from Artisan Roast and Coffee Nexus (March 29, 2021)
• The Coffee Visionary By Jasper Houtman Book Review (March 28, 2021)
• Scottish Coffee Roasters I Have Tried (March 27, 2021)
• My Home Brew Bar (March 27, 2021)
• Home espresso and interesting resources (March 27, 2021)
• Trying a Robusta coffee (March 27, 2021)
• Purchasing an espresso grinder (March 26, 2021)
• On the road to better espresso shots (March 25, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Roland from Hasbean (March 24, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Jamie from Luckie Beans (March 23, 2021)
• Espresso journaling (March 22, 2021)
• Comparing the Kalita Wave and the V60 (March 22, 2021)
• My experience making espresso at home (March 21, 2021)
• My ongoing journey with the Flair (March 19, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Danny from Obadiah Coffee (March 18, 2021)
• Pulling more shots with the Flair NEO (March 17, 2021)
• First shots with the Flair NEO (March 16, 2021)
• Pour-Over Brewing: Pulse and Continuous Pouring (March 15, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Jay from AeroPrecipe (March 15, 2021)
• Brewing pour-over coffee without a bloom (March 06, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Laboratorio Espresso (March 05, 2021)
• Strange Weather in Tokyo Book Review (March 04, 2021)
• The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide Book Review (March 02, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Nasko Panov from NP's Coffee Science (March 01, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Haydn from Filtrew (February 28, 2021)
• How to Make an Iced Latte at Home (February 26, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Jamie from Sacred Grounds Coffee Company (February 26, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Lisa Lawson from Dear Green (February 25, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Christopher from Full Court Press (February 24, 2021)
• How to Make a Cappuccino at Home (without an espresso machine) (February 23, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Eve from Argyll Coffee Roasters (February 22, 2021)
• My Experience Cupping Coffee with Steampunk (February 21, 2021)
• God in a Cup by Michaele Weissman Review (February 21, 2021)
• The Coffee Dictionary Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• A Pour-Over Brewing Glossary (February 21, 2021)
• The Monk of Mokha Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• Coffeeography: The Coffee Producers Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• Pour Your Heart Into It Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• What I Know About Running Coffee Shops by Colin Harmon Review (February 21, 2021)
• Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast Review (February 21, 2021)
• London Coffee by Lani Kingston Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• The Best of Jim Seven Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• Coffee: From Bean to Barista Book Review (February 21, 2021)
• Coffee: A Global History Review (February 21, 2021)
• Bringing Back My Website (February 20, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Alex from Manifesto Coffee (February 19, 2021)
• Brewing two cups with the Chemex (February 17, 2021)
• Acaia Pearl: ongoing thoughts (February 13, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters (February 12, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Todd Johnson from Williams and Johnson (February 11, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Davide from Papercup Coffee Roasters (February 10, 2021)
• First impressions of the Acaia Pearl scale (February 09, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Bruce from Fortitude Coffee Roasters (February 08, 2021)
• Cupping the same coffee roasted three ways: Part two (February 08, 2021)
• An Aeropress glossary (February 07, 2021)
• Ecuador Altos De Saragullas by Redemption Roasters (February 07, 2021)
• Cupping three of the same coffees (February 06, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Cathryn from Little Fitzroy (February 06, 2021)
• My Experience with the Aeropress (February 05, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Tom from Manchester Coffee Archive (February 05, 2021)
• San Jose de Lourdes Peru by Neighbourhood Coffee Roasters (February 04, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Callum and Alex from Untitled Oats (February 04, 2021)
• The V60: A week (or so) on (February 03, 2021)
• First impressions with the Chemex (February 02, 2021)
• Observations on the Hario V60 (February 01, 2021)
• My first impressions with the V60 (January 31, 2021)
• Cupping the same coffee roasted differently (January 30, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Adam from Cult Espresso (January 29, 2021)
• Why do a coffee cupping at home? (January 28, 2021)
• My Current V60 Recipe (January 28, 2021)
• V60 vs The Chemex (January 27, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Paul from Lowdown Coffee (January 27, 2021)
• Basic set up for brewing with Kalita Wave (January 26, 2021)
• Dog and Hat Subscription Box Review (January 26, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Jonathan from Ukiyo Koffie (January 25, 2021)
• Cleaning the Aeropress rubber plunger (January 24, 2021)
• The Nakano Thrift Shop Book Review (January 23, 2021)
• Pushing slower on the Aeropress (January 22, 2021)
• Juan Vergara Full Court Press Coffee Review (January 22, 2021)
• Experimenting with coarser grinding for the Aeropress (January 21, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Robi Lambie from Cairngorm Coffee (January 21, 2021)
• Interview for The Coffee Life Blog (January 20, 2021)
• Before the coffee gets cold Book Review (January 20, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Mark Edwards from Unorthodox Roasters (January 19, 2021)
• Guatemala Finca La Esperanza by Steampunk Coffee Review (January 18, 2021)
• My Kalita Wave Recipe (January 17, 2021)
• Going back to the Aeropress (January 16, 2021)
• Thoughts on the regular Aeropress method (January 15, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Cheapshot (January 14, 2021)
• El Salvador Finca Bonanza by Steampunk Coffee Review (January 13, 2021)
• Lessons from a home coffee cupping (January 12, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Coffee Snob Blog (January 11, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with The Coffee Life (January 10, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with The Pourover (January 09, 2021)
• Observations using the Kalita Wave (January 08, 2021)
• Coffee Chat with Catherine Franks from Steampunk Coffee (January 08, 2021)
• Observations on gooseneck kettles (January 07, 2021)
• Standart Magazine Review (Issue 21) (January 06, 2021)
• Melitta Gooseneck Kettle Review (January 05, 2021)
• Baratza Encore Coffee Grinder Review (January 04, 2021)
• Observations on cupping at home (January 03, 2021)
• Jamila Abakeno Ethiopia by The Good Coffee Cartel Review (January 03, 2021)
• Acids in Coffee (January 02, 2021)
• The design of the Kalita Wave (January 01, 2021)
• Adado Ethiopia by The Good Coffee Cartel (December 30, 2020)
• Using a coarser grind with the Aeropress (December 29, 2020)
• Bukonzo Dream Uganda by Steampunk Coffee Review (December 28, 2020)
• Aeropress French Press (December 27, 2020)
• Why I switched to an electric grinder (December 25, 2020)
• Blending at home (December 24, 2020)
• Coffee Books to Read This Holiday Season: Part Two (December 23, 2020)
• Online cupping classes (December 22, 2020)
• Hario Mini Mill Grinder Review (December 21, 2020)
• My Aeropress is difficult to push... (December 20, 2020)
• Sweetness in Coffee (December 19, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with Silviu Rad from The Missing Bean (December 18, 2020)
• Brewing hacks (December 17, 2020)
• Coffee Books to Read This Holiday Season: Part One (December 16, 2020)
• I cannot taste this flavour... (December 15, 2020)
• Ethiopia Bale Mountain by Steampunk Coffee Review (December 14, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with Bean Thinking (December 11, 2020)
• Bombe, Ethiopia Obadiah Coffee Review (December 09, 2020)
• Coffee Blogs To Follow This Holiday Season: Part Two (December 07, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with Double Skinny Macchiato (December 04, 2020)
• Cojones Guatemalan by Good Coffee Cartel Review (December 02, 2020)
• Coffee Blogs To Follow This Holiday Season: Part One (November 30, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with SOLO Coffee (November 27, 2020)
• Barista Documentary Review (November 25, 2020)
• Baristas Documentary Review (November 23, 2020)
• What is Turkish Coffee? (November 21, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with Edinburgh Coffee Shops (November 20, 2020)
• Kenya Kiganjo Peaberry Artisan Roast Review (November 19, 2020)
• From Seed to Cup: Sourcing, Exporting, and Roasting (November 18, 2020)
• The Journey from Seed to Cup: Planting, Harvesting, and Processing (November 17, 2020)
• Craft Coffee: A Manual Review (November 16, 2020)
• Caffeinated Documentary Review (November 15, 2020)
• Coffee Chat with Brewing Coffee Manually (November 14, 2020)
• How I Taste Coffee (November 13, 2020)
• How to Make Coffee Book Review (November 12, 2020)
• We Have No Tables (November 11, 2020)
• Steampunk Columbia El Carmen Sugarcane Decaf Review (November 10, 2020)
• Artisan Roast Finca Don Jaime Review (November 09, 2020)
• The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee Review (November 08, 2020)
• How I Choose Coffee Beans (November 07, 2020)
• Coffee: A Modern Field Guide Review (November 06, 2020)
• Coffee in '90s Sitcoms (November 03, 2020)
• Grinding Coffee at Home (November 02, 2020)
• The Philosophy of Coffee Book Review (November 02, 2020)
• My First French Press Brew (November 01, 2020)
• Brewing a Better Cup of Coffee (October 30, 2020)
• Missing Bean Peruvian Direct Trade Review (October 29, 2020)
• Measuring Coffee with Scales (October 28, 2020)
• Why I Love the Aeropress (October 28, 2020)
• My First Brew with a Scale (October 27, 2020)
• How I Learn About Speciality Coffee (October 25, 2020)
• Steampunk Coffee's Packaging (October 24, 2020)
• Curse of the Pumpkin Spice (October 23, 2020)
• A Low Supply of Beans (October 22, 2020)
• Building Relationships at My Local Coffee Shop (October 22, 2020)
• Tracking the Word Count on My Blog (October 08, 2020)
• Writing an Analytics Bash Script: Part II (October 07, 2020)
• Writing an Analytics Bash Script (October 06, 2020)
• Reading Content with RSS (October 05, 2020)
• Cleaning Up the IndieWeb Webring (October 05, 2020)
• Unorthodox Roasters Wee Stoater Review (October 04, 2020)
• Coffee Cupping with Steampunk (October 04, 2020)
• Checking My Webmentions Using RSS (October 03, 2020)
• Displaying Webmentions on My Site (October 02, 2020)
• Writing a New Tab Extension: Part II (October 01, 2020)
• Writing a New Tab Extension (September 30, 2020)
• Why I IndieWeb (September 29, 2020)
• Brewing Coffee With the Aeropress (September 26, 2020)
• Writing a Colophon (September 25, 2020)
• Resisting Complexity on My Site (September 25, 2020)
• How I IndieWeb (September 24, 2020)
• The Five Factors of Coffee Tasting (September 22, 2020)
• Owning a Raspberry Pi (September 21, 2020)
• Setting Up My Raspberry Pi (September 20, 2020)
• How I Design for Accessibility (September 19, 2020)
• Building a Weather Station (September 18, 2020)
• My Website Hosting Journey (September 17, 2020)
• Self Dogfooding and Losing Steam (September 16, 2020)
• Social Interactions on the Web (September 13, 2020)
• Micropub and Publishing Content (September 12, 2020)
• A New Website Architecture (September 11, 2020)
• Archiving My Internet Presence (September 10, 2020)
• Owning My Coffee Data (September 09, 2020)
• Rethinking the Blog (September 08, 2020)
• Blue Bottle Coffee Course Notes (September 07, 2020)
• The Philosophy of Static Websites (September 07, 2020)
• Trying Not to Overengineer (September 06, 2020)
• How I Use Webmentions (September 04, 2020)
• My First Homebrew Website Club Meeting (September 03, 2020)
• Scratching My Itches (September 02, 2020)
• My Experience With Jekyll (September 01, 2020)
• Writing on the IndieWeb Wiki (August 31, 2020)
• Adventures on the IndieWeb (August 30, 2020)