Pod Somm: Tracking Specialty Coffee with a Bookmarklet and a Lot of DOM Wrangling
How I built a personal coffee tracker for my xbloom studio, and why the interesting part was a bookmarklet that had to outsmart Cloudflare.
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Prompted Pours: A Cocktail Catalog Built with AI
How I built a structured catalog of AI-generated cocktail recipes, and why the interesting part wasn’t the cocktails.
SIFS: Building a Custom Website for a 14-Year Film Club
How I built a static Hugo site to replace a patchwork of Letterboxd lists and spreadsheets for a film club that’s been meeting since 2011, and what it took to turn 14 years of emails into structured data.
Moving Our Travel Blog from WordPress to Ghost
Why we left WordPress for Ghost, what it took to build a custom theme around geographic navigation, and how we automated deployments with the Ghost Admin API.