Coffee promises and responses

There's been quite a bit of coffee nerdery floating around the phlogosphere

lately[1,2,3,probably more]. I am going to write a very length entry in

response to this on the weekend when I can sit down and sink some time in it.

There will be a little bit of content in there that is actually about coffee,

but mostly it will be ruminations on the nature of connoisseurship. Because

heaven forbid I respond straightforwardly to a simple question about coffee.

Kroovy recently wrote a nice post[4] which expresses a few opinions and

perspectives I share. I don't at all buy the connection of any of this stuff to

communism vs capitalism, and I'm insufficiently interested in that alleged

connection to explain why I don't. But I am 100% on board with a call to arms

for people to make the computing world better by ignoring the siren songs of

lifestyles and instead building better tools, and to embrace minimalism in

computing, for a lot of reasons. Maybe I should write a post about that this

weekend too, afterall it's exactly the kind of thing this phlog alleges to be

about.

Defanor (who, argh, has written even more since I last visited his gopherhole.

Following his excellent phlog is going to be the reason I eventually set up a

moku-pona feed for myself) wrote not so recently[5] about how he has done away

with passwords for his mailserver, and downloads mail, I guess in a way akin to

POP3, to his computer directly over SSH. He pushes mail to be sent to the

server in the same way, so his whole email experience is pasword free and

secured entirely using SSH keys. This is the most interesting tech related

thing I've read in a while. It seems obvious and trivial in hindsight, but

I've literally never heard of anybody doing it, and upon first exposure to

the idea it comes across as pure genius.

Major thanks to everybody who tuned into the first episode of Half Hour of Powr

last night!!!

[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/sparcipx/phlog/February_2018/02-07-18

[2] gopher://alexschroeder.ch:70/02018-02-16_Coffee

[3] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/kvothe/phlog/2018/02/16-coffee

[4] gopher://kroovy.de:70/0/phlog/adopting_modern_communism_to_computer_science.md

[5] gopher://uberspace.net:70/0/~defanor/phlog/mail-over-ssh.rst