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James' Coffee Blog
13 Mar 00:00 • James' Coffee Blog

Tales of Debugging: The missing character

I received an interesting bug report this week. A new user of Artemis reported that the letter “n” was missing from all of their post titles. For example, one post title ended in “Oe Moth I” instead, as it should read, “One Month In”. What was causing the bug? I had a hunch. ...

James' Coffee Blog
13 Mar 00:00 • James' Coffee Blog

Website reflections

Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are: Don’t worry about writing on one topic. You’ll find great joy in exploring new ones. Write what you love — the observations of your life, the things that mak...

IndieNews English
12 Mar 22:18 • James' Coffee Blog

Designing my blog post draft web experience

jamesg.blog/2025/03/11/blog-draft-design

Tantek Çelik
12 Mar 21:45

Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be prai...

Scripting News
12 Mar 21:04

Highly recommend this week's New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Stephen Kotkin of Stanford. He's an expert on Russian history, biographer of Stalin, he talks about what Trump is doing, and as I listened I realized we have not filled in how crazy or challenged the leaders o...

Manton Reece
12 Mar 19:36

Rêve Coffee in Lafayette, LA. ☕️

Adactio
12 Mar 19:21

Wednesday session in Amsterdam

Manton Reece
12 Mar 15:57

New feature for Micro.blog’s Bluesky cross-posting: preview cards. This is still off by default, but if you flip it on in Sources, Micro.blog will try to figure out the title, description, and og:image for the first link in your post and attach it. Screenshot:

Screenshot of new checkbox to enable Bluesky preview cards.

Manton Reece
12 Mar 15:31

Federico Viticci wonders if Apple should have their own API that could bridge to OpenAI and Anthropic, offering Apple’s own seal of approval on privacy and security. It would be a nice surprise if Apple did something like this. They could wrap together on-device models and private cloud compute too.

Tantek Çelik
12 Mar 15:11

I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologi...

Manton Reece
12 Mar 14:45

MarsEdit 5.3.3 is out! This release adds support for Micro.blog blog post summaries with a new “excerpt” field in MarsEdit.

Scripting News
12 Mar 14:15

Today's song: Starting Over.

Adactio
12 Mar 11:45

I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.

Adactio
12 Mar 07:56

Hello, Amsterdam!

ArtLung
12 Mar 05:20 • Joe Crawford

I have no complaints about playing in the rain today.

James' Coffee Blog
12 Mar 00:00 • James' Coffee Blog

Designing code snippets in technical content

When I was re-designing my website, I thought a lot about the presentation of prose, guided by the intention to build a more focused theme for reading my words. Over the last few months, I have also thought about the design of multimedia content: images and videos. Designing ...

James' Coffee Blog
12 Mar 00:00 • James' Coffee Blog

Pattern: Filtering over content firehoses

Every week, BBC Scotland publishes a collection of photos as part of a Your pictures of Scotland series. Readers are invited to submit photos of anywhere in Scotland. The series has opened my eyes to all of the landscapes across the country. From morning frost over the hills ...

James' Coffee Blog
12 Mar 00:00 • James' Coffee Blog

Matcha

I am excited by the arrival of spring; a time of flowering and growth and, hopefully sunshine. As it gets (a little bit) warmer, I have been in the mood for my go-to, non-coffee iced drink 1: a matcha latte. Last week, after drinking one, I thought maybe I could try making ic...

Chris Aldrich
11 Mar 19:17 • Chris Aldrich

Great! Another evacuation warning. This time instead of for catastrophic fire, it’s for rain and potential mudslides from the burn scar. Fortunately (?) I’m still evacuated from January 7th about 6 miles south.

Manton Reece
11 Mar 14:45

Excellent Dithering today — and Upgrade yesterday for the 2-hour version 🙂 — about how the Apple Intelligence rollout missed the mark. Time for Apple to take off the rails and open up APIs and models so developers can take the lead for a while, like how Mac apps innovated with desktop publishing.