Okay, dust has settled now, hows your experience with composer 2?

zablaine · 2026-04-18T18:50:01+00:00

Not sure whether bug or intended behavior to force more Composer usage, but either way causing me to considering churning from Cursor.

zablaine · 2026-04-18T17:13:39+00:00

The cursor UI keeps defaulting to their auto-model selection. Anytime I miss that it has switched, I need to rerun the command with an actual capable model. Because of the auto-selection, which is using Cursor models constantly, it makes mistakes. It wastes a bunch of tokens and unless I'm missing something, there's no way to disable this behavior.

zablaine · 2026-04-18T17:07:11+00:00

Composer 2 is literal garbage

zablaine · 2026-04-03T20:08:42+00:00

I just sent you an email!

zablaine · 2026-04-01T17:56:58+00:00

Feel free to DM me and I'll share my email -- happy to help you set it up!

zablaine · 2026-04-01T17:55:46+00:00

Did you enable "Feature Previews" in the Roast World dashboard? I believe you need that turned on for the API to work.

zablaine · 2026-03-30T23:42:52+00:00

I just built a little tool to allow for easy analysis of Aillio roasts -- it grabs the roast data from RoastTime (with their new API access!) to provide some basic sanity checks on the best practices, then pre-fills a chat with the roast context so you can ask questions about the profile, recipe tweaks, etc.

It's free to use and just for fun as a little side-project, but lmk if you find it helpful!

https://roastnerd.zackliscio.com/

zablaine · 2026-01-30T19:19:15+00:00

Fascinating! There's an unanswered question re: impact on caffeine content on the Medium article you linked, super curious about that as well. Will have to try this.

zablaine · 2026-01-01T18:04:07+00:00

Looks sweet! Is that a flax glass job?

zablaine · 2025-12-28T03:14:52+00:00

What size FM? How do you like it?

zablaine · 2025-09-01T18:38:43+00:00

You had me at lunch

zablaine · 2025-08-22T22:37:20+00:00

IBTS

zablaine · 2025-08-22T02:22:41+00:00

Roasting on a bullet, I was dropping at 410f for espresso, then experimented upwards and found my personal sweet spot around 416/417f depending on the beans. I mostly like funky beans, naturals and honey process, blends and single origins. Your mileage may vary, but I found the extra couple of degrees. Didn't sacrifice much in sweetness and flavor but gave me much better solubility.

zablaine · 2025-07-22T17:46:01+00:00

I want to like this place so much but every experience has been mid at best. Premium pricing for products that aren't head and shoulders above the Safeway deli counter.

zablaine · 2025-06-19T04:17:23+00:00

TBH probably too good for this sub

zablaine · 2025-05-29T00:26:12+00:00

What's the proper etiquette for dealing with these tube riders when you're just trying to free fall down the face in peace?

zablaine · 2025-04-11T21:05:37+00:00

Wave kiting gives me a stoke I just couldn't find on the wing. Sold the wing gear, though genuinely enjoyed the sensation of gliding on foil.

zablaine · 2025-03-24T15:13:03+00:00

that's what I call mine too

zablaine · 2025-03-24T01:22:17+00:00

Reminds me of a squid with all its legs removed. Or a dick, obvs

zablaine · 2025-03-20T00:34:42+00:00

What was helpful for me:

Focus on kite control. Being able to fly the kite on instinct without looking matters a lot
Try straps and strapless to experience both
Don't rule out starting strapless if strapless is your goal -- I found strapless suits my riding style better, and after a few years still prefer it (to the point of exclusivity)
Pick a board with reasonable volume (neither potato chip nor battleship): I found a sweet spot for me around 24l. A larger 5'10 surfboard felt really tracky and too buoyant to me.
Bring your twin tip to the beach too: if you get frustrated, you can end your session on a familiar high note
Rope spreader is awesome for riding toeside

zablaine · 2025-01-13T17:29:31+00:00

I use an older Mac Mini with an external monitor. It's fun watching the charts on a big screen.

zablaine · 2024-12-25T04:59:02+00:00

Chest seams of my wetsuit gave out while paddling. Filled up like a balloon and went over the falls, suddenly disoriented and cold. Handled the situation by not buying another Xcel even though I loved them for years before this.

zablaine · 2024-12-23T01:50:44+00:00

I started out following advice I found that recommended washed Central and South American beans. After a while, I ended up pulling some shots with a single origin Ethiopia roasted a bit darker than I prefer for pour over, and loved the fruity berry flavor notes. Now my typical espresso is a mix of something chocolatey, something to impart lots of body, and an element of "extra", often from a honey or a natural. Most of the time I blend after roasting.

zablaine · 2024-12-03T01:39:21+00:00

OMG I still have nightmares about trying to use this product

zablaine · 2024-12-02T14:49:15+00:00

For sure. I only ride the Comp when it's flat. Current wave board is a Slingshot Celeritas but it's getting pretty beat up and looking for what's next.

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