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A few months ago a friend gave me an Ender 3 Pro he was getting rid of. I finally set it up so that means I print my own Bluey toys now.

I've had the Bambino Plus for a few years now and its a great little machine. Pretty much exactly the same as yours other than this has the "auto steam" feature which I rarely use.

I got a bottomless portafilter after a bit to try to understand what was happening but also because if done right, it makes for a good video. I try to do around 8-15 on the grind settings for my DF64 with 18g and ~36s pull. Good as just regular espresso or with milk.

The Bambino really is a great machine but the cleaning UX has always been a little confusing to me. When you start running the cleaning cycle it kinda seems like the machine just stalls but you just have to let it sit there until the lights all stay on solid.

One other weird thing that happened is once I ran the cleaning cycle early but the machine lit up a few shots later in what would have been the normal scheduled cleaning time. I ran it again and everything was fine, just confusing. I remember reading that this was an issue with the Plus but can't seem to find the source so it may have just been user error.

I really enjoy tinkering around with this machine without it feeling like its a full time hobby to get just right. Now, it's time for a cortado.

I'm not sure if this is a thing but Joe and I must have shared a dream last night.

Friendship is funny. It’s so vital to us. But it can be brittle. Fragile.

Moving around a lot I got used to having temporary friends. I've lost touch with a lot of people and have tried to reconnect to little success. There's nobody to blame, we're all different now.

I like the metaphor of friendship as a garden because it feels very true. I like gardens. I like to see stuff grow and enjoy things when they're ready. But I'm bad at gardening. I hope I can be better.

TIL my wife sometimes checks my website. She asked me out of nowhere why was there so much snow here and I didn't even know where to begin.

But you do realise you proved my point a bit? If one needs to go searching the GitHub issues to figure out how to do it, then people would need to be really motivated to do it.

I completely agree with this. A big challenge for me has been finding the right example that is maybe linked in the wiki. When nothing is found I usually ask at HWC and get more pieces of the puzzle but in cases where something isn't defined as well as other things, like watch posts, it's a dead end.

And yet, sometimes I have a feeling that people (not you personally) just sort of assume that we all understand the microformats.

This is specially important in this case. When there's not an example anywhere it's up to the person that wants to define the microformats to do it. For me it's a bit intimidating and I have struggled with this because I don't think I understand enough and sometimes do it completely wrong.

Luckily like you mentioned in your reply to gRegor, people I've interacted with in the IndieWeb have always been very helpful and I have not felt judgement for being wrong. But I don't know if this would be immediately apparent to a newcomer.

Not sure what the rule is but based on the length it feels like that reply should've been an article.