Tag: coffee
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The Mythical Agent-Month, Retirement Cartoons, and Coffee Brains – Related to your interests, Monday
Spotted in the Tenerife South Airport, February, 2026. Related to your interests Broadcom Empowers Platform Engineers to Accelerate AI and Modern Application Innovation on Kubernetes – Round-up of VMware Kubernetes releases and announcements at KubeConEU 2026. Strengthening the Cloud-Native Ecosystem Through Upstream Collaboration – VMware’s open source work in the kubernetes community. Broadcom expands Kubernetes…
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Do rooms have coffee machines? That is a quick heuristic for picking hotels for work travel, probably any travel. When the answer is no, the rest of the hotel experience is more likely to be a let down. (Germany is an exception. They seem to be really into tea.)
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“I was drinking coffee because I was tired, and I was tired because I was drinking coffee. Can not drinking nearly two liters of coffee every day improve your sleep quality? Big if true.” Less Coffee, Better Sleep
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Don’t Taste One Coffee – “Humans are really good at comparing.” // So, when you want to make a decision, put look at a lot of options. Not just the trick of the one you want, a middling one, and an obvious no, but lots.
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Favorite coffee-making setups from the Ars Technica staff – I made coffee with a Chemex for a few years. The coffee was good, and the overall ritual of it was just fantastic.
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Link: Starbucks teases coffee traceability app feature, compostable cup trial
This focus on the people behind the coffee beans could strengthen positive consumer sentiment around Starbucks’ brand and give it more of a human element as it continues to stretch its global reach. The move could also drive other coffee chains to make their supply chain journeys accessible to their customers. Investing in traceability isn’t…
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Link: How a holding company that sold pool chemicals pivoted into a $20B coffee empire
“In recent years, JAB has quietly plunked down majority stakes in some of the biggest coffee brands in the world, including Keurig ($13.9B), Peet’s Coffee ($974m), Stumptown, Intelligentsia, and the Caribou Coffee Company. JAB also bought out coffee-related food chains like Krispy Kreme ($1.35B) and Panera Bread ($7.5B), and put up $18.7B for soft drink…
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Link: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
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Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins. It is a question of using finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on…
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The last week of January
This month started off with my birthday, as it does every year. Kim was kind enough to throw me a surprise party – the second she’s done – and many people were kind enough to come. Some even brought gifts, one of which I quickly finished off, mostly on the night of the party with…
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Austin Roasters Coffee Tasting
This past Sunday, several Austin-based coffee roaster got together for a sample-fest over at Owl Tree Roasting. With a $5 donation to Urban Roots as part of Eat Local Week, I crammed myself into a packed old car garage and managed to try coffee from several different roasters and coffee shops: Little City, Third Coast…
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