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The current design starts each chapter with the tl;dr version so if you want to fake having read the book you only need to skim 5 pages.

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Spent some time last night working on chapter heading layout and ended up with something that I think I might like. Later I'll need to swap in real photos instead of the Atelier Firis fan art that's currently acting as a placeholder.

i had a dream where i was supposed to compress a bunch of sporting equipment as .tar.bz2 by putting it through various machinery but i got bored and threw a bunch of it into the bz2 machine without bothering to tar it, and then i had to go digging up the ground to find all the equipment because it got lost all because i was too lazy to tar it

the moral of the story is always tar before compressing so you don't lose file attributes and also so you don't have to spend days digging up lacrosse sticks and jump ropes

This is one of those areas where people get themselves worked up at the potential complexity, but it's something that you build up to in straightforward and easy to manage steps.

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After I'm done with the book I think I'll do some videos that walk through exercises from the book starting with blending for espresso.

@ivesen the difference is powerpc and mips are decent instruction sets with quirks and x86 is a set of quirks that can be used as an instruction set

Once I've created the images, put those in place, and gotten through at least a couple rounds of editing I'll be contacting the people who agreed to do technical review for the print book and find out if they're willing to take a look at this one as well.

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It's a somewhat opinionated guide to roasted coffee product development. Five chapters. Starts with having a plan for your product line, moves to sample roasting and cupping practices (sourcing coffees that align with your plan), then figuring out how to roast those coffees, a chapter on blending, and ending on finished product quality testing.

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I have an ebook draft done. It needs all of its figures and photos, editing, layout, and technical review, but the draft is done. Very much hoping I can get that slammed out by the end of the month, but it could take longer.

death 

My father made the local newspaper's list of notable people who died in 2019.

Why doesn't the princess just wait for Bowser to go out on his bridge, jump on the axe and save herself? We all know she's capable of it.

We decided to go with $1200 as the total amount to write on the check and someone else chipped in a personal check for another $50 that will get mailed along with that.

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The decaf Sumatra turned out to be quite a bit closer in overall flavor profile to my regular Sumatra. There's a hint of apricot in there.

The key here was stretching out time while the coffee was yellow to push the sweetness then blast through time between cracks fast to preserve acidity, ending right at the start of 2nd crack to bring the body up. Quite happy with how this turned out.

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Starting the day by tasting production test batches of new decaf coffees. Starting out with an Ethiopian coffee. This is the one that I was least confident in as rather than finding exactly what I wanted in my initial exploratory testing, I found some different things that I liked and needed to design a new roasting plan to try to get all of that in the cup at the same time. Worked out well. Good balance of body and acidity, citric and melon flavors.

In the 4 hours the shop was open today, we raised $991.72 for the food bank. The check we write will be larger because we always get some people who couldn't make the event chipping in a little extra and the shop will also put a little extra in.

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