James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog
James
Hello! Привіт! I'm James (/d͡ʒeɪmz/) (also capjamesg). My pronouns are he/him/his. I live in Scotland. This is my blog.
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Hues of red and lavender blended together in the clear evening sky. I don’t think I have seen the sky like this before. I write with my laptop propped up on one lap as I gaze out the window, trying to find the words to describe the sky....
The book for this month’s IndieWeb Book Club, hosted by Nick, is Christopher Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building.The book is about architecture, but its principles have broader application to any discipline involved with...
Two years ago, I visited Greenwich in London. I had been to London before, but Greenwich was that bit further out so I hadn’t made the trip. What drew me to Greenwich was the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian line. The day I...
One of the ideas Frances shared when we exchanged blog post titles was to write about a memory from a library. While the prompt “Sparking joy” is the one I ended up writing about, as soon as I started to think about library memories a...
Whenever I visit an art gallery, there is inevitably a painting that sparks joy, or otherwise leaves me with an impression that sticks with me. Peter Paul Rubens’ Landscape by Moonlight was one such painting.The painting depicts a...
I think back to how I used to think about how my finger tips would hurt if I learned to play the guitar. I was right: my fingers do get a bit sore. But with practice playing for longer gets easier. I am so glad I started to play.I have...
When I write about nature, I sometimes go to my archives and search for what phenomena I am thinking about. I was looking at my previous posts on blossom and saw that I last wrote about the topic on the 5th of April, 2025. I started my...
I am trading blog post titles with Frances. Frances wrote Where art exists in my life. I will be writing “Sparking joy”.On the top right corner of my bedroom whiteboard, written in orange pen – one of my favourite colours! – reads:Have a...
This weekend I started work on rewriting the static site generator that I use for this website, Aurora. I was looking over the codebase and wondered if I could make the code a bit more efficient and easier to understand. I had ideas for...
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I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.Organise subscriptions with foldersYou can now create folders in Artemis. This feature is designed to help...
Trafalgar Square is a special place. The architecture and views are breathtaking. The National Gallery, the church of St. Martins in the Fields, Canada House, and more, all surround the Square. From the right place you can look down...
This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on the topic “Museum memories”.When I was 10 or so – maybe younger; childhood can be hazy – my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland for a day. My memory...
i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thingbut when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy lookingfor the next best thingI had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere, I...
The days are getting longer and brighter. The bite of the winter air is being replaced by a delicate breeze. It feels like Spring is here.I have been trying to play my guitar every day, usually before I eat dinner. Over the last week, I...