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The Five Factors of Coffee Tasting | James' Coffee Blog
The Five Factors of Coffee Tasting | James' Coffee Blog
Last night, I thought about high school for a moment. It has been a while. What brought high school to mind was that I considered how I could improve my learning. I've decided that I want to take a more structured approach to my coffee education so that I can stay on-track.
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The Five Factors of Coffee Tasting | James' Coffee Blog
Kenya Kiganjo Peaberry Artisan Roast Review | James' Coffee Blog
Kenya Kiganjo Peaberry Artisan Roast Review | James' Coffee Blog
In keeping with my personal philosophy to order from Scottish coffee roasters, I recently ordered a bag of Kenyan peaberry coffee from Scotland's own Artisan Roast. Artisan Roast is one of the biggest players on the Scottish coffee scene and my first coffee from them did not disappoint; it was delicious and well-balanced. So, I knew that I'd get something unique from the new coffee I ordered from them.
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Kenya Kiganjo Peaberry Artisan Roast Review | James' Coffee Blog
Coffee Chat with Christopher from Full Court Press | James' Coffee Blog
Coffee Chat with Christopher from Full Court Press | James' Coffee Blog
I first learned about Full Court Press by reading Coffee: A Modern Field Guide, a pocket handbook written by the founder of Full Court Press. First a cafe, Full Court Press has expanded into roasting their beans, with a commitment to transparency that I have not seen from any other roaster to-date. I sent their team an email with some questions about their roastery and transparency policies. Over email, I had an interesting chat with Christopher, the roastery operations manager. Our interview is below.
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Coffee Chat with Christopher from Full Court Press | James' Coffee Blog
Help Build the Social Web | James' Coffee Blog
Help Build the Social Web | James' Coffee Blog
The Web is about enabling collaboration between people. I can write a blog post about coffee, publish it, and share it with coffee roasters around Scotland. That post can be referenced for years by people I will never meet who share my passion for coffee. People can respond to that post: like it, share it with others, leave comments. The Web is social.
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Help Build the Social Web | James' Coffee Blog
How I Taste Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
How I Taste Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
As much as I love the brewing process, I am always looking forward to tasting the coffee I am brewing. I find pleasure in coffee brewing because I know that the resultant taste of the coffee is in large part a result of my efforts. Everyone from the roaster to the farmer plays their role but it is my duty to make sure I turn the beans they have processed into a delicious brew.
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How I Taste Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
Acids in Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
Acids in Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
A good cup of coffee has a balance between acidic, bitter, and sweet compounds. When you properly extract a coffee—which is usually defined by achieving an extraction yield between 18 and 22 percent—these acids are well-balanced. They do not disappear, rather other compounds help to take away from some of the sour tastes you can experience with acids.
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Acids in Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
My Home Brew Bar | James' Coffee Blog
My Home Brew Bar | James' Coffee Blog
After many hours spent brewing espresso, taking notes, and diagnosing my shots, I realised that the grinder was the weakest link in my chain. It is true what they say about how you should never overlook your grinder for espresso. My espresso journey is temporarily on hold until my new espresso grinder, the REMI hand grinder by Option-O, arrives. So, what should I write about? That question has been on my mind.
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My Home Brew Bar | James' Coffee Blog
Coffee Chat with Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters | James' Coffee Blog
Coffee Chat with Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters | James' Coffee Blog
Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters, who are based in the Scottish Highlands, are one of the most well-known roasters in Scotland, roasting single-origin coffees from around the world. I had read a bit about how they got started online. But, I had some questions about how troasters like Glen Lyon source coffee.
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Coffee Chat with Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters | James' Coffee Blog
First impressions of the Acaia Pearl scale | James' Coffee Blog
First impressions of the Acaia Pearl scale | James' Coffee Blog
The Acaia Pearl scale has been on my mind for a while, more so than any other piece of coffee equipment. I have been having an issue with my regular scales—which were a cheap purchase on Amazon—where the weight of the contents on the scale sometimes changes by 0.1 or 0.2 grams. This behaviour has affected the scales since the start, but I did not mind because the changes did not have a big impact on my coffee brewing.
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First impressions of the Acaia Pearl scale | James' Coffee Blog
Squirrels in a York park | James' Coffee Blog
Squirrels in a York park | James' Coffee Blog
One of my favourite places in York is the Museum Gardens. In the gardens, there is a mix of old buildings and nature. St. Mary’s Abbey is an eye-catching centerpiece to the gardens; the remains standing tall and evoking curiosity about the quality of old architecture.
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Squirrels in a York park | James' Coffee Blog
The Thermal Printer Project: Printing hcards | James' Coffee Blog
The Thermal Printer Project: Printing hcards | James' Coffee Blog
I have been playing around a lot with my thermal printer. While I have accomplished the initial goals I had in mind when I purchased the printer (create a program that prints my webmentions and print myself a daily update), I know there is still more that I can do with this device. Seeing how creative the Little Printer community was, I have been thinking up new modules to add to my thermal printer.
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The Thermal Printer Project: Printing hcards | James' Coffee Blog
How I Use Webmentions | James' Coffee Blog
How I Use Webmentions | James' Coffee Blog
I sent my first webmention yesterday. Well, that's not completely true. I have sent one or two in the past but they were just test-runs. Yesterday was the real deal. I had some thoughts on a blog post I read and I decided that I'd share them with a webmention.
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How I Use Webmentions | James' Coffee Blog
Announcing recipe syndication for Breakfast and Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
Announcing recipe syndication for Breakfast and Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
Breakfast and Coffee (b&c), a wiki that aggregates breakfast and coffee recommendations, is now over one year old. I published a blog post announcing b&c on February 3rd, 2022. Since then, I have syndicated most of my coffee shop recommendations to the wiki and have made a number of improvements. b&c has been the subject of numerous discussions in the IndieWeb community, resulting in new ideas on how to improve the site.
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Announcing recipe syndication for Breakfast and Coffee | James' Coffee Blog
Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 17 | James' Coffee Blog
Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 17 | James' Coffee Blog
I am writing a blog post every day from December 1st to December 24th, 2021, about a blogger whose writing or site I follow. My aim for this series is to help you discover new blogs and to help get the word out about content creators whose blogs I appreciate. You can read more about this series in the inaugural Day 1 post.
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Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 17 | James' Coffee Blog
A New Website Architecture | James' Coffee Blog
A New Website Architecture | James' Coffee Blog
For a moment a few days ago, I was tempted to build a server-side application for my website. What stopped me from doing so was my memories from building my personal website with Next.js. My site worked. It looked nice. My site lacked one thing. I didn't really know how it worked. There were too many abstractions away from the code itself. I was often confused about why I had made certain programming decisions.
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A New Website Architecture | James' Coffee Blog
The Thermal Printer Project: Part I | James' Coffee Blog
The Thermal Printer Project: Part I | James' Coffee Blog
A few days ago, I decided to purchase the Adafruit Thermal Printer, which was compatible with the Raspberry Pi. This thermal printer has been on my mind for a while but this week a reason for buying one came to mind (aside from the fun of experimenting with a thermal printer which was obvious to me). I decided that I wanted to generate a random Aeropress recipe that I could then print. I thought this would be both fun to create and, upon further reflection, good excuse for me to try new Aeropress recipes that I might otherwise not use. So this project would have been a nudge to help me get out of my Aeropress recipe rut.
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The Thermal Printer Project: Part I | James' Coffee Blog
Checking My Webmentions Using RSS | James' Coffee Blog
Checking My Webmentions Using RSS | James' Coffee Blog
I have been using the webmention.io dashboard to check my webmentions. This is all I needed in a webmention reader. I'd check my webmentions every now and again because it was uncommon that I would receive one. When I did receive a webmention, I'd add writing a response to my mental to-do list and I would get around to sending one whenever I could. I like the manual process. It's fun to write and send a webmention.
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Checking My Webmentions Using RSS | James' Coffee Blog
Advent of Technical Writing: Lists | James' Coffee Blog
Advent of Technical Writing: Lists | James' Coffee Blog
This is the seventh post in the Advent of Technical Writing series, wherein I will share something I have learned from my experience as a technical writer. My experience is primarily in software technical writing, but what you read may apply to different fields, too. View all posts in the series.
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Advent of Technical Writing: Lists | James' Coffee Blog
Build an internal link recommendation API in 25 lines of code | James' Coffee Blog
Build an internal link recommendation API in 25 lines of code | James' Coffee Blog
A thoughtful, interconnected site structure is great for both people and search engines. There are many components of designing the structure of a site, from choosing the right URLs to creating breadcrumbs to help people navigate around your site. Linking to relevant content -- from similar articles that together form a linear track to linking to related editorial content -- helps people understand what you have to offer on your site, and helps search engines discover new pages on your site.
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Build an internal link recommendation API in 25 lines of code | James' Coffee Blog
GitHub commit messages and emojis | James' Coffee Blog
GitHub commit messages and emojis | James' Coffee Blog
Earlier this evening, I had an idea: what if I could use OpenAI's GPT-3 model to generate an appropriate emoji for a commit message? I have seen emojis used in commit messages and I am curious about the visual representation of the information with which they are associated.
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GitHub commit messages and emojis | James' Coffee Blog
Social Interactions on the Web | James' Coffee Blog
Social Interactions on the Web | James' Coffee Blog
This morning I was close to giving up on my micropub endpoint. It has taken a significant amount of time to get the project to the stage I am at now. There is still more to do. I have not yet completed the server deployment. I'm having issues with wsgi that I have not yet fixed. I thought that maybe a command line interface would be more appropriate, seeing as how most of the idea behind setting up a micropub endpoint was to make it easier for me to share bookmarks. I then remembered why I am building the micropub endpoint.
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Social Interactions on the Web | James' Coffee Blog