• by
    Just shipped support for unlisted and private posts in Tanzawa. This work also allowed me to improve the posting interface and make it a bit easier to use. 🎉
  • by
    Lately I've been thinking I want a way to post comments on other sites from my site without putting them into my main feed. I could pull it off with just unlisted posts...but I'm not sure if that's a robust enough solution...will have to ponder some more.

  • Response to My weekday coffee routine

    by
    I have asked a few people lately when they drink coffee. I am interested in this because I understand that we all drink coffee at different times, in different quantities, and in different contexts. I want to learn more about how others consume coffee.
    I'll indulge in talking about my coffee habit. The method that I brew coffee has changed over the years.  In college I used either a hand-drip, a french press, or at times a peculator. 

    My standard method was a hand-drip until my son was born. Then taking the 15 minutes in the morning to brew a cup of coffee became too time consuming. Especially when I wanted more than 2 cups in a go. 

    These days I use a Cuisenart Automatic Grind and Brew. It has storage for beans on top and a built in bur-grinder. The carafe is also insulated so it doesn’t burn the coffee keeping it warm.

    My first cup is usually around 5am with breakfast (slice of thick toast with peanut butter and banana). Second cup is shortly there after. 

    Around 8 when I start work I’ll have my third cup. This one is kinda sipped over the course of an hour or so.

    I try not to drink coffee in the afternoons. But sometimes I feel like a candy coffee after lunch. Those times I’ll have a instant cafe latte.

    One thing I haven’t done in the past 18 months is go out for a nice coffee at a specialty shop. I’ve got to Starbucks, but I miss the hand brews ala Blue Bottle sometimes.

  • 🔗 Reaching people on the internet in 2021 - The Oatmeal

    by
    A comic about social networks.
    Fantastic comic from the oatmeal about reaching people on the internet. I don't have a mailing list, but I feel the pain – hence Tanzawa.

    Reaching People on the Internet
    1. Tagged with
    2. internet
    3. social media
    4. indieweb

  • The Week #53

    by
    • This week I’m mostly writing in a retrospective, rather than bit-by-bit throughout the week. It’s proving harder than I had anticipated.
    • Blake shared a link to fireworks adverts from a Japanese company in the 1880’s in the US.  I love the colors so much. Ads of this period are always interesting. Humans haven’t changed as much as we’d like to think.
    • Leo got sick for the first time in as long as I can remember. It just a cough, but we decided to pull him from pre-school for a day so he could visit the doctor and not spread it to other kids. His cough woke up him a couple of times at night, which in turn woke me up, so I'll need a bit more coffee to power through the day.
    • We went to Afternoon Tea in Fujisawa for the first time in ages with Leo for tea (well, I always get coffee/iced coffee). I was totally surprised how well Leo did. He managed to wait patiently for 20 minutes (!) while we waited for a table. He also waited patiently for our scones to come. Achievement unlocked?!
    • I built a little robot out of paper-straws with Leo (well, really he just watched). It was from a little kit made for elementary school students. His name is aru-kun after the Japanese for walk "aruku".
      Arukun
Previous 275 of 719 Next