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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 yel...

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• Ben Werdmuller

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks

"The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks." With it comes a generational loss.

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 m...

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Tesla robotaxis in Austin no longer need safety drivers. Worrisome. Elon Musk’s insistence that self-driving does not need radar or lidar is just needlessly dangerous. Waymos drive better than human drivers in part because they can see better.

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Six years ago I blogged about my favorite Christmas movies. No changes needed yet. 🎄

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Too many guns. I don’t have a lot of words beyond what has already been said for years. Sad for the victims and families from Brown University and Bondi Beach. We should watch what Australia does next and learn from it.

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For the first day of the winter photo challenge, no actual frost anywhere near me, although it is nearly freezing in Austin, so I’m going with Frosty.

A small, festive snowman decoration with a top hat and orange stars is displayed on a wooden stool, next to a potted plant.

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 ...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 rea...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 f...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 y...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
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 a...

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• Matt

Nex Playground

The Wall Street Journal has a fun article about the Nex Playground, The Hottest Toy of the Year Is Made by a Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of. I think this is the first time one of Audrey Capital’s companies (we invested when it was the Homecourt app) is the hot Christmas item. Here’s it … Continue reading Nex Playground

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• Joe Crawford

LIFE HAPPENS (an incredible talk on open source maintaining

For the last year I’ve been pointing people to click through to a talk by Juliette Reinders Folmer called “Resurrecting the Dead.” It was via this Mastodon Post from @lauchgott. The talk is online, and starts at 3:59:23, on YouTube, at the Neos Conference 2025. I’ve listened to it a few times and what’s wonderful...