Building the ultimate software tools for specialty coffee

A Google search for “coffee shortage” brings up a slew of results about expected green coffee shortfalls in the coming years. I’m not much for predictions. That guesswork is best left to the cable TV “news” shows. Even a fairly dark perspective on the next couple of years gets turned on it’s head if you view it like David Pohl from Equator Coffee and Tea – http://www.equatorcoffees.com/blog/?p=234 What is reasonable to expect, and what I start thinking about when I Read more…

As Ted mentioned in his most recent post “Hard At Work, or an Update on the State of RoastLog” we are indeed hard at work on a number of things, including a 4-channel data bridge. Many, many roasters have expressed a desire for multiple inputs when data logging. In some cases we’ve heard it’s an absolute necessity – they wouldn’t even consider signing up for RoastLog without being able to log from multiple inputs. That’s all fine and understandable, but Read more…

Sitting in our weekly meeting. I’m up for a blog post but not overflowing with ideas. BZ asks, “So, what inspires you?” I reply, “Well, if you want to know what I find really inspiring I’ll tell you, but I’m not comfortable blogging about it.” Coffee is going through a really fantastic, interesting time. We’re unwrapping a thing we thought so familiar and going, “Holy shit! This is so much more interesting, amazing and fabulous than we knew.” A cup Read more…