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Hario V60 Silver.
16g BRCC Gunship.
40 seconds off the boil. 50 second bloom.
Aroma: warm chocolate, campfire.
Taste: char, roasted nuts, bitter.
Verdict: a good strong cup, but more bitter than I’d like. Next time try cooler water for less extraction.
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Day one. The irony of establishing familiar rituals: everything is strange and difficult, at first.
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Happy #Hacktoberfest! This year I’m jazzed to be contributing to @owasp Testing Guide, @OWASPTop10, and @OWASP_ASVS, and sharing what I learn in my blog and on @ThePracticalDev!
Projects like these need data, code review, writers, and editors! What are you working on? 👩🏻💻🖋🔐 ✨
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Oh, hey Bob. Yeah, I got your email. I’ll get a reply back to you in a couple weeks. Yeah. Just got the ErgoDox.
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Split life. @ErgoDoxEZ
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Software developers today are encouraged to focus on building, and that’s a great thing. We’re benefitting from maker culture, an attitude of “always be shipping,” open source collaboration, and a bevy of apps that help us prioritize and execute with maximum efficiency. …
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My new website is up, and one of my favourite parts isn’t even prominent. It’s at the veeery bottom of the index page, where Hugo’s WordCount function prints that I’ve written (approximately) 56,208 words. 🖋✨
Hopefully the majority of them are useful.
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Given how much must be overcome for humans to communicate with machines, I’m always pleasantly surprised when the thing does what I meant it to do the first time around.
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For an application that’s ready to scale, not using managed cloud architecture these days is like insisting on digging your own well for water. It’s far more labour-intensive, requires buying all your own equipment, takes a lot more time, and there’s a higher chance you’re …
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You can learn a lot more about yourself than you really want to know by looking at your “Inspired by your browsing history” Amazon product suggestions.