This article is the twentieth edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series.. A shareable link is a link to a web resource that you can share with

Encountering a big, beautiful espresso machine at someone’s house feels a lot like gazing upon the countertop equivalent of a vintage Bentley, or observing the mechanics of an expensive watch. There’s that covetable air of functional sophistication; the nonchalant cool that comes with a device that showers you with at-home cappuccinos at the pull of

Two Columbus-area coffee shops will begin offering a reusable cup program in the new year. Customers will be able to take a reusable cup to go, then bring it back later. They’ll get their next drink in another reusable cup while the shop washes the first one, and so on. During a news event at

“Best decision ever was buying this coffee pot.” Source link

Many of my Advent of Patterns blog posts contain visuals that accompany the text. This is different from much of my previous writing which was text-focused; technical guides, poetry, musings. When looking through my posts, I noticed that some of the details of the images were hard to grasp because they were too small. I