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with words, wonder
17 Dec 10:51 • James' Coffee Blog

The nicest thing a stranger has done for me

Lou wrote a blog post asking the question “What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?” I read his blog post and then spent some time thinking about how I would answer. One moment comes to mind. When I was in my late teens, I had gone on a journey to the city...

Jeremy Cherfas
16 Dec 12:22 • Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Trattoria Valentino

BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
16 Dec 09:26 • Naty S

Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance

Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.

BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
16 Dec 09:26 • Naty S

Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance

Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.

BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
16 Dec 09:26 • Naty S

Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance

Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.

Jeremy Cherfas
16 Dec 08:57 • Jeremy Cherfas

Weeknotes 25-50 – amble.blog

Daniel Pietzsch
15 Dec 22:05

🎬 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Believe it or not, I have not seen this previously. It's relentless. It's uncomfortable. It's horrifying. That was quite the trip, seeing it at the cinema.

Daniel Pietzsch
15 Dec 22:05

🎬 Bad Taste

Well, this was just the right desert after TCM that evening. Bad Taste was one of my earliest splatter/underground movies I've seen. It was great seeing this again after all these years. Splendid splattertainment!

Daniel Pietzsch
15 Dec 21:33

🎬 Berberian Sound Studio

…or The Italian Vegetable Massacre. Toby Jones - which I really didn't know before - is absolutely fantastic. He truly transports how one might feel in such a menacing environment. And the film leaves no doubt it criticises these types of people, and hence the production of ...

jeremycherfas.net
15 Dec 18:02

A Christmassy Bike Ride

Cracking ride yesterday with RuotaLibera, the Rome chapter of FIAB that I belong to. It was billed as a Christmassy ride around the parks of the south of Rome, and it was a blast. The guides had mapped out a great route that had a few exciting moments — roundabouts where you...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 17:06 • James' Coffee Blog

Brainstorming visual search for the web

When I am chatting about a website with friends, sometimes I forget the name of the website. I remember what the site is about, and often remember visual details about the site, too. A few months ago, I described a website that aggregated blogs and also mentioned it had a ye...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 16:36 • James' Coffee Blog

Walking

The sun sets early at this time of year. Now that I think about it, the shortest day of the year is coming soon, after which point, each following day will be longer. Anyway, I went for a walk before the sun set. If I don’t go out now, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow. That ...

Jeremy Cherfas
15 Dec 14:45 • Jeremy Cherfas

New episode: The easiest way to be ...

New episode: The easiest way to be absolutely certain that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants.

https://eatthispodcast.com/give-again

with words, wonder
15 Dec 14:34 • James' Coffee Blog

A Lady in Grey

I love thinking about the use of colour in painting. Impressionist paintings never cease to make me smile; their colour illuminates me as it does the places they depict (oh! how wonderful art can be!). I also love paintings that use grey and white, both sparingly and as part...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 14:24 • James' Coffee Blog

IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics

The IndieWeb Book Club choice for November 2025 was Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. I wanted to write a post about this book, but I have lately found myself spending a lot of time reading books rather than writing. My time recently has reminded me of how much I love re...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 13:57 • James' Coffee Blog

Words and making coffee

Sometimes, I feel pressure to write about more serious topics on my website. Surely I have something I can say! While I do love writing the occasional technical blog post here, thoughts on the future of the web, or ideas on another topic, I sometimes feel a bit stuck when I ...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 13:24 • James' Coffee Blog

IndieWeb Book Club: Non-Designer’s Design Book

This month’s IndieWeb Book Club book, the Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams, felt like it was written for me. One of my goals this year was to learn more about design, so I was delighted to see this book on the list. Through the book, Williams introduces and deta...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 13:24 • James' Coffee Blog

Music this year

For the last two years, I have posted my Spotify Wrapped updates to my website. I think they serve as much as a reminder to me about what music I was listening to as being potentially interesting to you (I hope, maybe?). This year I moved to Apple Music part-way through the ...

with words, wonder
15 Dec 12:54 • James' Coffee Blog

Cleaning the Artemis database

If you are a user of Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, you may have noticed that there has been more downtime than usual lately. This is largely because of a difficult database task on which I have been working. If you are not interested in the technical details but ...

David Shanske
15 Dec 01:21 • David Shanske

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First Night of Chanukah