Tips for getting the best from your café and barista

Baristas work bloody hard. It's a skilled job as you'd find out if you had to juggle making hundreds of drinks a day, all day, every day. Pulling an excellent espresso shot alone takes time and practice to learn,. Add in a wide variety of drinks based on espresso and you'll see there's a lot to balance and think about, not to mention the hideous and innumerable matcha concoctions that are suddenly popular. it's a ruddy battlefield, is the average cafe. They may have several drinks on the go at a time, each of which has its own workflow. Disturb that workflow and one or more drinks may be below standard. you'll almost certainly spoil your drink and possibly, others' too.

i have witnessed all these things and more, and while I'm not in the business, I have spent enough time observing and talking to baristas to know what irks them, upsets the workflow of the cafe and disturbs the vibe. the TL;DR of

i spent a good part of yesterday going through my old daylogs, for two reasons. Partly I wanted a list summarising them all (I used to have such a list on my homenode, but it got killed off due to my using unapproved Unicode characters, which destroyed evrything typed after them =[). The other thing is that I've wanted to

"Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise" is a miniseries written and illustrated by creator Trad Moore and Heather Moore. It was released as a four issue miniseries in 2022, and released as a graphic novel in 2024. It features the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange, but from a perspective outside of the normal scope and style of Marvel comics.

How do I describe what is going on here? The basic plot is that a woman comes to the Sanctum Sanctorum of Doctor Strange, and asks his help in