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Coffee This has been a relatively lackluster coffee week experience until today, and technically, this is already the next week, but I’m going to share anyway. I’m in West Palm Beach to pick up and deliver the boat from Florida to Newport, and I have some extra time on my hands as the boat is still getting buttoned up, so I searched for a coffee company and found this place: Composition Coffee. They are pretty darn awesome. Very well done inside, and great-tasting coffee. I wish I could have more than two cups. They don’t roast, so they won’t be in the box, but if you happen to be in the area, I would say it is well worth the trip. I had a prodigal coffee boulder blend in my iced americano. Glad I got to try them. ...

Coffee Updates Several Weeks ago, I ran/walked a half-marathon in Providence (mostly walked). While I was up there, I was able to grab a coffee at The Brown Bee with a good friend after the race. I got the Pistachio Latte and actually thought very highly of it, though trying to eat one of their pastries without making a mess is impossible. This place is very Brown University, but worth checking out. ...

Last week was a crazy adventure, starting on Sunday with Mother’s Day. The whole family got together in CT, and it was a ton of fun hanging with the kids and dogs. However, from there it only got crazier as Dan and I decided to take a trip for Authentic Auctions to Kentucky to photograph some Adventure Vans in the town I lived in when I was a sophomore in High School. It has changed so much. ...

Coffee Lots of coffee updates since my last time writing. Middle State Coffee Rating: 4/5 Location: Denver, CO This place was great. They do mostly light roasts, which I love. I’m annoyed this was the last new coffee spot I visited in Colorado before I left. I wish I’d had time to try their main location and more of their coffee. The coffee was a bit bitter for a light roast, but I still enjoyed the flavor. ...

Apple’s contact framework doesn’t understand how we actually connect. In my previous post, I wrote about how Apple’s Contacts app treats your relationships like a filing cabinet — a flat list of static cards with no context, no history, and no awareness of how people actually matter to you. That’s a product problem. But it’s also a technical one. Underneath the Contacts app sits a framework called CNContact, introduced at WWDC 2015 as a replacement for the widely despised AddressBook.framework. AddressBook was a C-based API with no Objective-C layer, opaque types like ABRecordRef, and virtually no error handling. When Apple announced its deprecation, the WWDC audience cheered — one of the loudest reactions in the conference’s history. ...