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  • Shiny light at Palace Coffee in Amarillo, for day 12 of the photo challenge. Be kind. ☕️

    Neon light that spells Be Kind.
    → 5:02 PM, Mar 12
  • Morning at Lamppost Coffee. As close to a ritual as I have, for day 10 of the photo challenge. ☕️

    Coffee and laptop and secret code.
    → 8:32 AM, Mar 10
  • Worked this morning at Cuvée Coffee. Bags of coffee beans for today’s prompt “whole” on the photo challenge. ☕️

    Bags of coffee beans on a shelf.
    → 2:20 PM, Mar 7
  • Solitude is coffee and a breakfast taco and my laptop, having the whole outside to myself for a little while. Lazarus Brewing. ☕️ (Also trying to do all my photo challenges in black and white for something new.)

    → 8:48 AM, Mar 3
  • Coffee and breakfast and coding at Either/Or. Love this boot glass. ☕️

    At a table at the coffee shop, with laptop and iced latte.
    → 11:19 AM, Feb 18
  • A little morning work and coffee at Lazarus. ☕️

    → 9:47 AM, Jan 27
  • Productive morning fixing bugs, reviewing logs, answering email. Sometimes lots of small things feel like more forward momentum than the big stuff. ☕️

    → 9:27 AM, Jan 12
  • Hi Austin! 👋 We’re having a Micro Meetup today with @jean in town. We’ll be at Lazarus Brewing on 6th between 4pm - 6pm. Anyone’s welcome to stop by! ☕️🍺

    → 10:17 AM, Jan 4
  • It’s been a while since we’ve had an in-person Micro Meetup! Join me and @jean for a coffee or beer or tacos at Lazarus Brewing on East 6th in Austin. Wednesday, January 4th. We’ll be there 4pm - 6pm. ☕️🍺

    → 3:10 PM, Dec 30
  • Java Square Cafe, in the building for an old bank in Opelousas, LA. ☕️

    → 5:33 PM, Nov 26
  • It was nice to mostly take a break yesterday. I know Thanksgiving is just a United States thing, but I like that it’s non-offensive to everyone… Let’s just chill and reflect on what we’re thankful for. Now back to work! Coffee at Rêve in Lafayette and rolling out M.b fixes. ☕️

    → 10:08 AM, Nov 25
  • An appropriately cold day in Austin. Coffee and server troubleshooting while the rain falls outside. ☕️

    → 1:34 PM, Nov 19
  • Slowly settling into a new routine back in Austin. Walking up to Lamppost Coffee every morning. In suburbia, no one walks anywhere unless they are walking their dog or exercising. Always feels a little weird. I love the quiet, but sometimes miss… people. ☕️

    → 10:07 AM, Nov 18
  • Coffee and overnight oats at Cat & Cloud. Great start to the workday. ☕️

    → 12:08 PM, Nov 10
  • Continuing this vanlife adventure into the northwest, I’m at Coffee Girl in Astoria catching up on email and whatnot. I haven’t been brave enough to get out the camping stove in the rain and cold, so no feasts yet, just basic groceries and some fast food. ☕️

    → 11:51 AM, Nov 2
  • Out of the house this morning for errands, a break for a little while at Epoch Coffee on Anderson Lane. A Day in the Life in Austin, 8:15am. ☕️

    Photo outside at Epoch Coffee
    → 7:26 AM, Oct 14
  • From this morning, coffee at Stinson’s. Looking at this photo, the text almost looks like a digital overlay. But no, the obnoxious TM is there in real life. ☕️

    → 2:33 PM, Oct 11
  • ☕️ Iced coffee time.

    → 7:33 AM, Oct 4
  • The secret to getting feature requests immediately implemented in Micro.blog is to send them to be 5 minutes after I sit down with my coffee. ☕️

    → 8:33 AM, Oct 2
  • Houndstooth on MLK. ☕️

    → 7:26 AM, Sep 23
  • I checked out Irie Bean Coffee for the first time and… people smoking cigarettes on the patio? Ashtrays? Like I had stepped back in time to 1990s Austin. They don’t care about your hipster third-wave coffee shop ambience and I kind of respect that. ☕️

    → 4:07 PM, Sep 2
  • Seems like I’ve been in and out for 2 weeks, both vacation and unexpected travel. Even though I can always check in with work from anywhere, it’s not the same as having an uninterrupted day. Back at my desk this morning, iced coffee in hand, ready to catch up. ☕️

    → 8:07 AM, Aug 19
  • Love the glasses at James Coffee Co. ☕️

    → 9:46 AM, Aug 10
  • Stopped in Corsicana for a coffee and world-famous fruitcake to go. I don’t even love fruitcake, but I’m fascinated with the Collin Street Bakery history. Next up need to watch the Fruitcake Fraud documentary. ☕️

    → 3:52 PM, Aug 6
  • Wrapping up another quick trip to Denton. Breakfast earlier at Avoca Coffee. ☕️

    → 11:50 AM, Jul 28
  • Morning coffee. Updating a README. Catching up on email. Hope everyone out there in internet land is having a nice weekend. ☕️

    → 7:40 AM, Jul 17
  • First time back to Red Horn in a year. ☕️

    → 10:44 AM, Jul 12
  • First time at Cosmic Coffee, in south Austin after selling a car at Carvana. Great outdoor space. ☕️

    → 8:25 AM, Jul 6
  • Coffee shop photos template

    I take a lot of photos at coffee shops. For some reason this morning I thought it would be fun to create a page on my blog that just shows coffee photos. I already use Micro.blog filters so that whenever I include the ☕️ emoji in a microblog post, it assigns the Coffee category:

    Coffee filter screenshot

    The next step was to create a template layouts/_default/coffee.html in my custom theme that would pull posts from this category. It grabs the latest 100 posts, then also checks if the post has a photo (“photos not equal nil”):

    Finally, I created a template content/coffee-photos.md to tell Micro.blog to use that template when creating the web page:

    Voilà! Looks pretty good.

    → 9:24 AM, Jun 18
  • West Oak Coffee Bar from over the weekend in Denton. ☕️

    → 10:03 AM, Jun 15
  • Murals outside Aura Coffee. Protect kids not guns. ☕️

    → 1:48 PM, Jun 12
  • Try hard. ☕️

    → 10:32 AM, May 19
  • Avoca Coffee in Denton. ☕️

    → 8:51 AM, May 15
  • Good morning! Busy day but first a little work and coffee. ☕️

    → 7:16 AM, May 10
  • Morning everyone. Coffee and work outside at Cenote. ☕️

    → 10:08 AM, Apr 27
  • Raining a little this morning. Coffee at Lazarus. ☕️

    → 7:30 AM, Apr 22
  • Bouldin Creek Cafe. ☕️

    → 7:43 AM, Apr 21
  • Thunderbird Coffee. Kind of cold outside this morning. ☕️

    → 7:45 AM, Apr 19
  • Lots of work to do this morning. Trying to start the week right with coffee and breakfast tacos. ☕️

    → 7:32 AM, Apr 18
  • On the road today, stopped at Pinewood Coffee in Waco. Nice outside courtyard space. ☕️

    → 1:26 PM, Apr 10
  • The last time I was here (Wright Bros Brew & Brew), you could park across the street because it was just a dirt parking lot next to the train tracks. Now it’s a Whole Foods and Target. ☕️

    → 7:51 AM, Mar 25
  • New Spurs mural on east 4th. Getting coffee around the corner at Wright Bros. ☕️

    → 7:26 AM, Mar 25
  • Cold morning in Portland, walked to Extracto Coffee before we get ready to set up for Micro Camp day 2. ☕️

    → 10:38 AM, Mar 12
  • Getting some work done between errands today. Easy Tiger. ☕️

    → 4:25 PM, Feb 17
  • I’m torn between thinking we have enough emoji already but really wanting an iced coffee emoji. 🥤 and 🧋 are not quite right, so I use ☕️ which is also wrong.

    → 10:33 AM, Feb 8
  • New year, new coffee. Stopped at Palace Coffee in Canyon, Texas. Cool old building from 1906. ☕️

    Palace Coffee photo
    → 11:13 AM, Jan 1
  • Old oak trees at Merit Coffee on South Lamar. The house also has a historical marker — built around 1900 by sisters who were teachers and then real estate developers. ☕️

    → 3:18 PM, Dec 28
  • Coffee and work on a few random Micro.blog backend things. I tweaked how publishing works to squeeze a little more performance out of it. ☕️

    → 12:13 PM, Dec 28
  • Misty, rainy day in Austin. Tried to work at Summer Moon but a guy nearby was sniffling and coughing. Even outside I couldn’t tune it out and had to leave. Stay home if you’re sick, people! 🌧

    → 11:20 AM, Dec 14
  • Christmas tree and stained glass at Lazarus Brewing. Coffee and work on the macOS app this morning. ☕️

    → 1:19 PM, Dec 13
  • The morning did not go as planned but it’s all good now. ☕️

    → 11:13 AM, Nov 10
  • In San Antonio for the afternoon. Working outside at Halcyon. Cool but sunny, about 65°… Not winter-y enough for me to switch to hot coffee yet. ☕️

    Coffee at Halcyon
    → 3:49 PM, Nov 5
  • My favorite space to work outside when I’m downtown. Coffee at Lazarus Brewing. Mosquitos seemed to have finally left me alone too. ☕️

    → 9:46 AM, Oct 21
  • Life ain’t nothing but a good groove. Coffee outside at the square in Denton. ☕️

    → 2:20 PM, Oct 3
  • Wonderful cool weather in Austin continues. Sitting outside working at Patika on South Lamar. Hoping to wrap up some text editor improvements in Micro.blog. ☕️

    → 8:34 AM, Sep 23
  • Starting the morning with coffee and breakfast tacos at Lazarus Brewing. Great space with lots of outside seating too. ☕️

    → 8:20 AM, Sep 7
  • Quiet morning on the UT campus because no classes. Working for a bit at Lucky Lab Coffee before walking around for the next mural photo. ☕️

    → 8:15 AM, Sep 6
  • For day 2 of visiting 30 murals in 30 days, I’m in south Austin. Picked up coffee at Mañana first but it was too crowded to stay to work. ☕️

    → 11:03 AM, Sep 2
  • Butterfly joining me at the coffee shop. Working outside for a bit after an appointment nearby. There’s a new Summer Moon in Steiner Ranch. ☕️

    → 9:43 AM, Aug 25
  • Walked around Mueller this morning. Working at Halcyon for a little while. ☕️

    → 9:38 AM, Aug 12
  • Houndstooth Coffee at The Domain. ☕️

    → 8:44 AM, Jul 18
  • Absolutely nothing was on my calendar today. No reminders. No events. No errands to run. Woke up early and working at Lamppost Coffee on Micro.blog server maintenance… because apparently that’s the exciting stuff I do on my day off? ☕️

    → 8:43 AM, Jul 17
  • Working at the coffee shop. Looked up and realized it was pouring rain outside. ☕️

    → 9:26 AM, Jul 6
  • This has been the morning routine this week. Picking up coffees at Ebenezers for our last day in DC. ☕️

    → 8:07 AM, Jun 26
  • Another road trip day. Stopped for coffee in Baton Rouge. ☕️

    → 11:40 AM, Jun 12
  • Happy that last night’s maintenance went smoothly — about twice as fast as expected. I had disabled photo upload during the downtime to minimize confusion. Up early, dropped the car off for service, then picked up coffee at Lamppost and walked back home. ☕️

    → 7:15 AM, Jun 10
  • Was up early and decided to go get coffee and breakfast tacos. Maybe too early: coffee place hadn’t gotten their food delivered yet. No problem, went to cheap drive-thru… but they were out of potatoes. First-world breakfast problems. The coffee is delicious so I’m still happy. ☕️

    → 6:50 AM, May 28
  • Picked up a to-go iced coffee from a new place that opened up recently: Lamppost Coffee off 183. I visited another location back in 2016 for my 30 days of coffee shops. Haven’t had coffee outside the house in a couple weeks so this small thing feels like a treat. Happy Monday. ☕️

    → 9:00 AM, May 3
  • Morning beverage. Cold brew and oat milk. ☕️

    → 9:39 AM, Feb 2
  • Earlier today, stopped for coffee while on the road.

    → 4:15 PM, Oct 13
  • Picked up Summer Moon drive-thru this morning. Getting a bunch of work done on final Micro.blog 2.0 wrap-up and Sunlit 3.1 testing. ☕️

    → 9:10 AM, Sep 24
  • Went to a local coffee shop for the first time in a while to pick up a to-go coffee. Still uncomfortable with the number of people inside. Not ready to bring my laptop, but for places with outside seating I can start to imagine it. ☕️

    → 12:26 PM, Sep 8
  • Countdown to Sunlit 3.0: discovery

    Sunlit 3.0 will ship in 3 days, on Tuesday. Today I want to highlight another new feature: the redesigned Discover browsing interface.

    Both Sunlit and Micro.blog use Discover to help you find people to follow. Because Sunlit is all about photos, Sunlit takes the usual Discover sections from Micro.blog, but shows only the photos from each section instead of all post types.

    For example, tapping on 📚 at the top of Discover will show microblog posts that have used the books emoji along with a photo, which will often be a book cover or other photo of the book. Tapping on 🧶 will usually show people’s knitting or crochet projects. Tapping on ☕️ will show coffee-related photos. Tapping on 🍞 will show baking.

    Discover knitting screenshot   Discover coffee screenshot   Discover bread screenshot

    It’s a great way to discover people to follow even if they haven’t posted a recent photo that you might see in the main 📷 photos section.

    Check back tomorrow for another blog post in this series as we look forward to the Sunlit 3.0 launch. And thanks to everyone who tested the Sunlit beta!

    → 2:36 PM, Aug 29
  • Abandoned tracks downtown near the new library, as we walked back from Juan Pelota earlier this afternoon. ☕️

    → 11:33 PM, Feb 18
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