Andre's Notes

I'm a huge pen and paper nerd.

I made a little tool for calculating the dimensions of an annular sector of a conical frustum.

Hi, it's been a while since I released Tyke and there were a lot of requests since then to add hotkeys, start at login, and saving data between sessions.

I use the built-in iOS timer daily.

We’re back from a week in Italy.

I built a little web app for myself to track casting progress and firing.

From left to right a bean dosing cup, an espresso cup, and a larger cup for espressos or cortados.

I had some problems with the dripper base.

I recently got into making espresso at home and so this is the first time I'm drinking a shot out of one of the cups I made last year.

Hey, the new mold worked!

When de-molding this mold it had a preference to turn as it slid out, which meant the very tip of cone was forced to push against the very thin wings and it broke them.

Speaking of work: I’m making a ceramic V60 dripper!

Dave Rutledge has an interesting journal going.

The next thing I thought this site needed was a blogroll, but I didn’t want to just make a list of people and sites I liked.

Did I mention that I originally wrote my own blogging software last year?

I cleaned up the blog a bit and added some posting features I'd been wanting.

Looks like I’m now on the Claude Code train. 94 commits in 2 days across 6 repositories.

Hi, just testing out an idea here. 8:15 wake up 9:00 Having breakfast, playing Wordle, Clues by Sam, crossword mini, main crossword (29 minutes) 10:00 Go out to the studio to discover the one tool I needed to glaze some cups isn’t where I left it.

I’m pretty happy with the results of my first glaze I made from scratch!

I mixed some glaze recipes for the first time by Old Forge Creations and they worked!

Going to twitter.com is still baked into my brain in a way that I’ll sometimes type it without thinking.