James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog
James
Hello! Привіт! I'm James (/d͡ʒeɪmz/) (also capjamesg). My pronouns are he/him/his. I live in Scotland. This is my blog.
Latest Posts
When I am chatting about a website with friends, sometimes I forget the name of the website. I remember what the site is about, and often remember visual details about the site, too. A few months ago, I described a website that...
The sun sets early at this time of year. Now that I think about it, the shortest day of the year is coming soon, after which point, each following day will be longer. Anyway, I went for a walk before the sun set. If I don’t go out now,...
I love thinking about the use of colour in painting. Impressionist paintings never cease to make me smile; their colour illuminates me as it does the places they depict (oh! how wonderful art can be!). I also love paintings that use grey...
The IndieWeb Book Club choice for November 2025 was Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. I wanted to write a post about this book, but I have lately found myself spending a lot of time reading books rather than writing. My time recently...
Sometimes, I feel pressure to write about more serious topics on my website. Surely I have something I can say! While I do love writing the occasional technical blog post here, thoughts on the future of the web, or ideas on another...
For the last two years, I have posted my Spotify Wrapped updates to my website. I think they serve as much as a reminder to me about what music I was listening to as being potentially interesting to you (I hope, maybe?). This year I...
This month’s IndieWeb Book Club book, the Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams, felt like it was written for me. One of my goals this year was to learn more about design, so I was delighted to see this book on the list.Through...
If you are a user of Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, you may have noticed that there has been more downtime than usual lately. This is largely because of a difficult database task on which I have been working.If you are not...
I am sitting on a train, looking — or at least aspirationally looking — in equal measures downward at my phone as well as to the horizon. The sun is rising above the hills; yellow peeks through the light, low clouds.Rain briefly fell....
For a while, I have had an idea for Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – to have a page that shows your feed and feed settings on the same page.I am interested in this idea because there is presently a distance between the settings...
For a while I have wanted to make a bookshelf page on my website but such a page comes with the feeling that I should keep it up to date, a continuing obligation. I don’t want to keep a list of all the books I have read on my website...
I have been thinking about redesigning my website for a while. I wrote a bit about one of the design directions I explored recently. I loved doing the design part of the project, but knew there would be several hours of work to integrate...
Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and...
I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea...
Every so often I open developer tools in the web browser and start tinkering with my website. I love experimenting with different design directions, not necessarily in pursuit of a complete design so much as fuelled by a sense of...