No one remembers Meals On Wheels
1) exists
2) does exactly what people propose a non-profit community-based food delivery service should
3) was gutted by the current administration because a lot of their funding was federal
4) is exactly what we need right now
5) does not need reinventing from first principles
I appreciate that the Portland Mercury's "The 25 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: March 16-19" is entirely stuff you can do at home.
Also had a phone conversation with another coffee roaster this morning to talk about the possibility of doing my class online, eliminating the hands on roasting component and shipping participants the coffee to taste on their own during the class (which makes it a lot easier for the class presentation to include real roasting data for all batches). He said he's roasting 60,000 pounds of coffee today. That would be a pretty decent 4 years of production for me.
It seems like every time I need to set up a web site to take credit card payments I end up needing to do things a different way. The twist this time around is I know I'll have international customers but I also need to properly handle collecting WI sales tax for customers in WI. None of this is hard, but digging through the various API docs and figuring out just what exactly I need could be easier.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.