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
Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.”What would my perfect day look like? Reflecting on this question, I started to think about the days that have brought me the most joy in the past. I...
I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “Scotland’s brightness levels”.Place is a recurring theme when I am writing. Where am I? What do I see? What I write about...
I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting...
I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE.I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden...
Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”.One of the many joys of art galleries is that you never know what you might see. A few weeks ago, I was surprised...
I love winter mornings when the sky is clear. Looking out the window, the sky is a clear blue, interspersed with the occasional white cloud so faint that it is almost invisible. The snowy hills look like they are absorbing some of the...
I wondered if it would snow again this season. The weather has been persistently cloudy, but there has been little snow. Today, the weather changed. Just as I was about to go out for a walk, it started snowing heavily. It has been months...
I maintain a web page that lists notes from IndieWeb events. Entries are added to the page when notes from meet-ups are archived to the community wiki.This web page contains several h-feeds. h-feed is the microformats markup that says...
Ava and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Ava chose for me to write about was “What I associate with my name”.When I was young, I remember distinctly looking through a kids’ encyclopaedia and finding “James” written in there a...
Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them!I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow...
Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the...
In “Build a search index in Python”, I walked through how to create a search index using the “inverted index” structure. This structure is commonly used in document search.This week I was thinking about “inverting” data is more broadly...
Artemis has been open for registration with an invite code for over a year. In that time, many people have signed up. With that said, not everyone who signs up will end up using their account. This is par for the course with software....
As I have been building Artemis, I have learned that the account deletion flow requires constant review. For example, whenever I add a new database table, I need to make sure that table is in the account deletion flow. I may also need to...
Some time in January, I was going through my browser tabs and came across an Artemis tab that had been opened a while ago. But it took me a moment to realise that the tab might be out of date. My eyes went first to the posts from authors...