My coffee selection hierarchy Coffee Talk

Recently, James Hoffmann conducted a coffee fermentation project, along similar lines to his previous decaf project. Since this project was based entirely around caffeinated coffee, and I am quite caffeine-sensitive, I opted to just do this as a risky “drink one cup every few days” thing rather than a formal cupping.

What I found is that while there were some slight differences between the coffee varieties, and I’d probably be able to tell the difference between them in a side-by-side cupping, the differences weren’t so profound as to make me think I need to particularly focus on fermentation as a selection criterion for my beans, especially since it’s uncommon to even encounter fermentations when going with decaf.

So, here are my observations regarding the things that make the actual differences to my coffee enjoyment.

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Technology extension and phone longevity fluffy rambles

I’ve had the same phone for the past five years, an iPhone 13 Pro which I bought for two reasons:

  • My previous phone’s (iPhone 12 Mini) battery was worn out and had become worn out super quickly
  • I wanted the LiDAR sensor for the work I was doing at the time

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My urbanist fantasy fluffy rambles

I mostly love the town I live in, except that I really miss living in a more urban area with good walkability and transit.

I also love being in the Seattle area, except that everything feels so far away because of the transit situation. And when I do end up in the city I get so fed up with the constant presence of every tech company I cannot stand the existence of.

Sometimes I think about moving and starting a new chapter of my life, but I’m not sure what that would look like.

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rss2discord v0.4.0 fluffy rambles

I made some changes to rss2discord, most notably:

  1. Now it batches updates into a single post
  2. It lets you provide a custom message which can be used to send a role ping or the like

I am mostly posting this blog post to test the latter in production on my server, but also it’s nice to have more visibility for rss2discord.

💬 Re: MIndie-Agent: An IndieAuth Bot Notes

In reply to: Re: MIndie-Agent: An IndieAuth Bot

This is an interesting approach (and unattended IndieAuth has been desirable for quite some time, particularly for things like private posting appearing in feeds and authenticated Webmention and so on) but it will be really annoying if this is what ends up catching on instead of Ticket Auth, which was meant to solve this very problem much more simply but never got any real adoption.

Brief weekend notes fluffy rambles

  1. I will be performing at Song Fight! Live!, which is in Seattle again this year, on Saturday, and I am also looking forward to seeing those who are coming from out of town this year. (And the in-town folks, who I seem to only actually see at Song Fight! Live! anyway.)
  2. I am woefully out of shape and in so much chronic pain, and I’m trying to balance taking walks and actually using my Powerball regularly again with not completely fucking myself up with post-exertional malaise.
  3. I’d also love to be playing Stepmania but it’s too hard on my knees anymore, so I really need to try out VaporStep which looks to be pretty neat and is potentially much lower-impact.
  4. I am very much enjoying the use of my DynaVap cannabis dry-herb vape, which is easy to use and gives me a nice clean draw. I bought it with the optional DynaTorch butane lighter (which was tricky to fill the first time but there’s good guides on Reddit) and the magnetic debowler/storage stand.
  5. Separately I had also bought a POTV One which is also nice, but I’ve ended up just using it for concentrates since it came with that ability and I’d been trying to figure out what to do with this CBD concentrate I’ve had for ages, and switching between concentrate and herb is a little annoying. But also it came with a free cannabis storage container which is also really nice, and I’ve been using it with the Dynavap which pairs very nicely with it. (That said I probably wouldn’t have bought it if it weren’t included for free.)
  6. I’ve been wanting to get back to working on Misfits, but what little energy I’ve had for music has been going to live performances, and the rest of my life right now seems to center around basic daily needs.
  7. My kitties have been very cuddly though and that’s nice.