Coffee Appreciation

@StevePeel - tried the El Salvador El Ingenio this morning - didn't get much chance to dial it in properly, but initially seems good as espresso - lots of red-berry/currant flavour and a hint of mint/menthol to it.

^nice one, glad you're enjoying it so far. Makes a lovely filter that El Salvador.

Is South London Gallery too far from you? That's pretty great.
There's a new place on Camberwell Road as well, near Seabass bikes. I think it's called Daily Goods. It has all the signifiers of a good coffee place (bare wood counters etc.).
Brixton is weird for this kind of stuff, just cos it always feels like the exception to every trend in commerce. And Herne Hill has decided it's a suburb now. I think good coffee is an urban event. Opus is great though.

Ordered a couple of bags of the Gaslight for the office, thanks Steve.

One thing though... the password being sent via email when you set up an account. Tut tut.

1. You shouldn't have the password, it should be hashed and impossible to be reversed back to plain text.
   
2. Even if you have plain text or a reversible encryption... you should never ever send the password via plain text.
   
   

Whilst we're here... most of your site is not SSL, actually is any of it? You should get your site behind SSL ASAP. If you sign up for the company I work for SSL is free https://www.cloudflare.com/ but it takes a couple of days for SSL to be activated.

Not only would that protect your customers and their details, but Google considers SSL to be such a good thing that they increase your search engine placement if you have SSL. It's considered a positive signal by them.

But aside from non-SSL worries, I look forward to the coffee :)

The Bella Barista site/shop has been round for quite a while, so I assume it's the website owner's problem specifically.

Reported for spam.

Cheers for that Velocio, I'll pass all that on to the website guy. Hope you enjoy the coffee :) Good job you gave me the heads-up, I managed to get it dispatched tonight.

Daily Goods. It has all the signifiers of a good coffee place (bare wood counters etc.).

lol

It is really good though, and the only place between Brockley, Bermondsey and Brixton I'd bother going to for the coffee alone.

Happy to give the web guy some pointers.

Some of this will be very easy to fix, some more difficult.

The instantly easy:

1. Remove the password from the email template
   
2. Sign up for CloudFlare and you'll get free-SSL (but doesn't work for IE6 users)
   

You landed at Cloudflare? Must be an interesting place, they're doing really interesting stuff. I love the free-SSL, I just wish I could find a way for Heroku to force users onto it.

I've still got this:

And just to add to the general "best practice in online security" thing, Spam Assassin is now giving email a positive (bad) weighting if the d=domain and the from domain are not aligned (this is a critical part of DMARC), which is the first concrete sign that properly authenticated email gets better inbox placement.

Unpack the fruits before you put them in the bowl?

^ buy loose fruit?

What you are both saying, if I understand you correctly, is that no one wants my commercial burr grinder due to my unfair imprisonment of citrus fruit?

Too right. #freethesatsuma12

Yup, super interesting.

The free SSL stuff will eventually reach partners too, at which point I'm sure Heroku and others can make it available to everyone.

Been off coffee for a while, but a meeting at a local Norwich coffee house with @jdp yesterday has rekindled my love, so I thought I'd fish the Aeropress out of the cupboard.

Brought it into work today with my Porlex mini. Had my first coffee about an hour ago and boy, can't I tell my body isn't used to coffee any more. I'm sat here buzzing my tits off!

Aeropress & Porlex is a great little combo.

crap - missed this. Any chance it will still work?

Bought some Volcano full steam espresso last week from a shop in Norwood. Makes nice shots, but not really much to write home about - just a solid espresso, but no tasting notes really. Bit disappointed.

#wouldrep

Uurgh.

http://action.sumofus.org/a/starbucks-gmo-gma/?sub=fb

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/11/05/nyc-pastor-starbucks-is-flavoured-with-the-semen-of-sodomites/

£50, collection from Forest Hill, come on - don't make me put this on eBay.

It's an La San Marco SM 90 Commercial Grinder, http://www.caferico.co.uk/san-marco-sm90-coffee-grinder.html