Espresso machine pulling a shot.

Current Coffee Choice

One of the best pure espressos I’ve had near me is from Reprise. After my work on Hanukkah Coffee Box I’ve decided that I want to dive into the process of making better espresso and perfecting it to a level that I haven’t yet achieved before. When I reached out to Nick at Reprise, he provided me with some valuable advice. Don’t focus on small 1-pound bags of beans and try to achieve the right taste. It might take you a whole bag to dial in the flavor you want, and then you will have to recalibrate with the next bag. ...

May 30, 2025 · zacharyc
Matt and newphen going through water in Newport cove.

May Check In

I post regularly on this platform with interesting things I’m doing, but I haven’t written anything in May. There are several reasons for this. First, I’m working hard on trying to figure out what’s next. While Gluino lives on, both Sean and I have decided to work in other directions. We still meet and work on it, but keep Gluino as a secondary interest rather than our primary focus. So I’ve been open to doing anything else. I’ve farmed a bit. I’ve done some work on tiling and learning how to do some construction things. I’ve made some progress on a couple of sewing projects that I plan to talk about. I’ve spent a bunch of time with my wonderful dog. I’ve visited family and did the challenging task of prepping and selling the van. Oh, and recently, I had to replace all the tires on my car because one of them had popped. ...

May 29, 2025 · zacharyc

Web Forms Hugo Sites - Part 5

This is the fifth post about putting dynamic forms on a static Hugo site. Please see the previous steps to understand where we are: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 4 Now it is time for SQL and input! Talking about input The plan for input is something like the following. The body of the post request should look like this: ...

April 3, 2025 · zacharyc
Photo of letters for letterpress printing.

Today in Fonts

This post is about fonts. It’s for you if you care about the nitty-gritty details of how letters are lined out. If not, it’s probably not worth your time. Secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a designer. It’s not that secret because I’ll tell anyone. The truth is that technology is not helpful unless it is easy to use. To that end, I’m a font nerd. I’m currently reading Comic Sans, a book about a font people love to hate. I’m also a member of the Secret Type Club, run by the famous Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits. ...

April 2, 2025 · zacharyc

Web Forms Hugo Sites - Part 4

Previous posts: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 The saga of the web forms continues. Last, we left our intrepid project and were dealing with an issue with the self-signed certificate for our database. After poking around TLS, one of my brilliant friends sent me the following links: For postgres - https://github.com/porsager/postgres#ssl For pg - https://node-postgres.com/features/ssl#self-signed-cert To use the pg library we would use the second one. The issue is that I only have the self-signed certificate. ...

April 2, 2025 · zacharyc