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James' Coffee Blog
16:18 • James' Coffee Blog

Proust’s questionnaire

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 today, but here it is. Some of the most w...

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12 Feb 15:39 • Marty McGuire

Holy wow!! https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family Thanks Michael for the heads up!

Holy wow!!

https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

Thanks Michael for the heads up!

James' Coffee Blog
15:27 • James' Coffee Blog

A sandwich questionnaire, part two

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 delightfully-named “second helping” questions that R...

Marc Thiele's Journal
13:33

Events I Attend in the First Half of 2026

Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year. I bet there will be more, but those are the ones – in chronological order – where I have travel and accommodation booked and where I’d love to meet you ;) State of the Browser, London (UK) State of the...

Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
11 Feb 22:34

July 2024

Random photos from summer. A Forkalyst gig. The big funfair. Irrland. And the start into our vacation. (38 photos)

Jeremy Cherfas
18:51 • Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Sukhothai

@dead.garden - Jo 🪰
16:42

i wrote a program and instructed it to say "yes" whenever someone asks it if it has consciousness. what does this imply about the nature of selfhood? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Dan’s Polaroids
15:24

10.02.2026

A cupboard with a laptop and an audio interface in a rehearsal
space. A bass guitar and amps next to it. — Recording

James' Coffee Blog
13:48 • James' Coffee Blog

The inverted index pattern

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 applicable in software engineering tha...

James' Coffee Blog
11:57 • James' Coffee Blog

Designing for inactive users: Account check-ins and deletion

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. Signing up for an account doesn’t mean so...

James' Coffee Blog
11:36 • James' Coffee Blog

Redesigning the Artemis account deletion back-end

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 create an index in the database so I c...

James' Coffee Blog
09:06 • James' Coffee Blog

Notifying users of page updates

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 to which I have subscribed, then to th...

James' Coffee Blog
17:48 • James' Coffee Blog

Brainstorming source code editing for web applications

Last year, I worked on a bookmarklet for editing pages on my website. When clicked, the bookmarklet would open the page in GitHub that corresponded with the page I was viewing. I used the bookmarklet so much I turned it into a browser extension, which I still use regularly to...

Dan’s Polaroids
17:36

09.02.2026

Me with a venician carneval mask on in red and black. — Fooling around.

Eat This Podcast
15:36

Sweet peas are up after only a week!

#gardening

Jeremy Cherfas
15:15 • Jeremy Cherfas

Sweet peas are up after only a week

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Eat This Podcast
13:48

Food Notes from an American Prison

”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”

@ehasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.

https://eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg

#food #prison #podcasts

Jeremy Cherfas
10 Feb 13:41 • Jeremy Cherfas

2026-02-10

”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”

@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.

https://eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg

James' Coffee Blog
11:45 • James' Coffee Blog

Drawing and hand-written fonts

I have been thinking about hand-writing and websites in the background for a little while. I made a hand-written font using Calligraphr a few months ago. I enjoyed making this font, but haven't used it for a web project yet. Here's what it looks like: While making the font,...