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Digital, physical

When the Internet Phone Book was released, it came up in several calls I was in. I had a copy of the book on the table next to me so that I could bring it out. Knowing that some people may not have seen the book – or heard of the project – showing the physical copy had signif...

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James' Coffee Blog

Collaborative web weaving

At last week’s Homebrew Website Club, we had a discussion about making websites collaboratively. The discussion made me think back to the time when several participants all edited the same web page at the same time. The setup was an Etherpad – a web-based collaborative text d...

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James' Coffee Blog

What is the web equivalent?

Interface design is intertwined with real-world metaphors. Computers save information to files. Files are stored in folders. We can open one or more windows to view different applications. We put files we no longer want into the rubbish bin (trash can). While looking for more...

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Where is #CSS subflex when you need it? 😁

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Edit: Even More Synths! 🥳

https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025

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James' Coffee Blog

Worth watching, asking, knowing, doing, repeating

I was featured in Dense Discovery’s Worthy Five series, in which participants are invited to share five things that are worth seeing/doing/watching/asking, et cetera. Dense Discovery is among my favourite weekly newsletters. I recommend subscribing! When I write for other s...

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James' Coffee Blog

Browser extensions I use

I have been thinking a lot about tech tips lately. How should I document the tools I use or configurations I have that improve my experience using technology? While I think about this, I wanted to start by publishing a list of browser extensions I use. I use Firefox every d...

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Finished the #Skyline50k #trailRace in 9:34:51 yesterday! My 3rd best 50k, and first 50k in over two years since the Marin Ultra Challenge 50k in 2023.It was quite the journey to get back here, and a lot went well in this race. From training to preparing and planning, the tem...

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James' Coffee Blog

Coffee conversations

Inspired by Ben, Zachary and Courtney, I’m going to make an offer: join me for a virtual coffee chat! For the next two weeks, I’m going to keep 9am - 11am UK time on Wednesdays (excluding August 6th) and 6pm - 7pm UK time on Thursdays open for coffee chats. We can chat about: ArtPoetryMaking websitesThe future of the webDesigning technologyInterface designYour favourite Taylor Swift songOr just say hello! If you’d like to chat, feel free to email me at readers@jamesg.blog with the time that works best. I’ll send over a calendar and Zoom invite in which we can meet. I look forward to saying hi!

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James' Coffee Blog

Ideas and insecurity

I have this list of ideas, but would you believe I am insecure about not having enough ideas? I said to a friend recently. As soon as I said it, I realised how direct I had been about a persistent, deep anxiety I have had about coming up with ideas. Another part of my mind re...

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James' Coffee Blog

The joy of links

Today I have been thinking about how wonderful links are. With a link, I can send a resource to someone that they can immediately open and read. I can share a blog post I wrote, a blog post I read that is relevant, a Wikipedia article, a news story, a collaborative document, ...

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James' Coffee Blog

Sharing ideas on my website

Having a website encourages me to document, and share, my ideas, especially in prose. Whereas some ideas exist as notes in my notepads, having the medium of a blog post available as a means of expression encourages me to develop some ideas. Through this process, I consider my...

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Or maybe option D – titles with a short summary ?

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When you are visiting a personal #website or #blog: do you enjoy reading all the latest blog posts / journal entries / notes *in full* on the home page or do you prefer a list of headings for the latest entries?

Show me all the content!
I love clicking on links in lists!
I don’t really mind…

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I just love this section at the end of your journal entries, @adactio! 🤩

I just love this section at the end of your journal entries, @adactio! 🤩

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James' Coffee Blog

Icon overload and undoing changes

When I am using Notion – a notes tool – on my phone, sometimes I accidentally press a button and my text ends up formatted in a way I did not expect. Notion offers an undo button, except I didn’t know it was there until recently. There is an icon tray of several buttons, bu...

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James' Coffee Blog

Experimenting with Ghost

For the last year or so, I have used my static create page to prepare posts for publishing on my blog. The tool generates a file that I can then add to the Git repository from which my site is generated. This workflow works well for posts that are mainly words, but falls shor...

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If you’re thinking about buying #audio #plugins to improve the sound of your voice recordings or music, don’t make the same mistake I made – don’t buy Waves. Buy Toneboosters, Kiive, Klanghelm, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Fuse Audio Labs, Kazrog, Noiseash, et al.
And, of course, try out all the fantastic free plugins out there first! You might not need to spend any (or at least very little) money on plugins at all… 😉

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Maybe I should write a few blog posts about the best free and paid plugins 🤔

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James' Coffee Blog

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This is James' Coffee Blog, a brand new site by James that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!