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Decaf Project: S&W Roasting Coffee Talk

December 18, 2024 3:53 PM (a year ago)

This is a followup to my previous cupping; this time around I evaluated the Decaf Project samples for S&W Roasting.

Fiona’s feeling better fluffy rambles

December 18, 2024 12:10 PM (a year ago)

After having eaten a bunch of wet food last night and having had three doses of antibiotics, Fiona’s getting back to her usual cuddly/climby self. She isn’t sneezing anymore, and while she’s still a bit congested she snuggled up with me in bed this morning, and right now she’s being super snuggly and affectionate. She’s also purring super loudly, which she hasn’t done in a while.

I still haven’t heard from the vet about her bloodwork or x-rays but I feel like there’s a lot less to worry about now.

Fiona fluffy rambles

December 17, 2024 10:34 PM (a year ago)

Fiona’s been getting on in years. As a rescue stray I don’t know exactly how old she is, but the vet’s estimate was that she was around 18 months old when I adopted her in late 2012, so she’s probably 13-14.

The Decaf Project: Rose Park Coffee Talk

December 15, 2024 4:31 PM (a year ago)

Quite some time ago, James Hoffmann stated his interest in doing a broad decaf test where he would get one set of bulk single-origin beans, split it in four, and process it four different ways. It took a while for this to happen, but finally he was able to make it happen, in the form of The Decaf Project.

Being super excited about decaf in general, I ordered two tasting kits, one from Rose Park (who I’ve never tried) and one from S&W (who I’m quite familiar with and a big fan of).

Both of my kits arrived in time for the big tasting event, although being at 7 in the morning my time I opted to wait until the afternoon, and further decided I’d only do one at a time. So for today I’ve just cupped Rose Parks roast.

EVs to look at in 2025 fluffy rambles

December 13, 2024 2:49 PM (a year ago)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a roundup of current and upcoming EVs. Even though I don’t drive very much, I still like to keep track of where EVs are especially for everyday people who aren’t doing massive amounts of driving or cargo-hauling or whatever. I have no plans to upgrade away from my 2019 Niro any time soon, but I do know a lot of people who are EV-curious but not curious enough to do actual research, so I like to know where things are at.

With all of the FUD going around right now and the American auto industry’s hyperfixation on making everything into giant SUVs, I thought it’d be nice to raise awareness of the neat stuff that’s still happening.

Sockpuppet website updates! fluffy rambles

December 11, 2024 12:31 AM (a year ago)

I finally got a bunch of stuff working on the new Sockpuppet website, including the music browser. Now people will have the ability to actually find something in my vast sea of content!

I still need to finish tagging a bunch of stuff to make it useful but having the functionality in place gives me motivation to do so.

I’ve also improved the “buy box” and added way more streaming providers to the sources (which of course requires more content to be filled out, too), and there’s a bunch of other functionality like being able to browse lyrics and song notes and such from album pages.

The really neat thing is that most of this stuff, even the dynamic stuff, is done using pure CSS! There’s a little bit of Javascript for a couple of things but I have some ideas about how I can remove that stuff, and it’s not like the javascript is particularly heavyweight anyway.

At some point I should release the templates as Publ samples, so that others can use this as a basis for building their own music sites too. Or something. I’m doing a lot of stuff that’s really taking advantage of Publ functionality under the hood.

Anyway, for those who follow me via a feed reader but haven’t added that site yet, it’s definitely ready to be added at this point, and I’ll be posting most of my music-related blogging over there from now on.