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Many of my traditional blog post live on this site, but a great majority of my social-style posts can be found on my much-busier microbloging site at updates.passthejoe.net. It's busier because my BlogPoster "microblogging" script generates short, Twitter-style posts from the Linux or Windows (or anywhere you can run Ruby with too many Gems) command line, uploads them to the web server and send them out on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds.

I used to post to this blog via scripts and Unix/Linux utilities (curl and Unison) that helped me mirror the files locally and on the server. Since this site recently moved hosts, none of that is set up. I'm just using SFTP and SSH to write posts and manage the site.

Disqus comments are not live just yet because I'm not sure about what I'm going to do for the domain on this site. I'll probably restore the old domain at first just to have some continuity, but for now I like using the "free" domain from this site's new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Sat, 31 Dec 2016

Cut down a #4 coffee filter into a #2

So you have the bigger Melita-style No. 4 paper coffee filters for 8- to 12-cup coffee makers and you need a smaller No. 2 filter for your single-cup pour-over cone filter (or 2-cup coffee maker)?

It happens more often than you think. I'm always running out of No. 2's and always have plenty of No. 4's. Mostly because Costco sells a huge pack of the larger filters.

You can just stuff the bigger paper filter into the smaller pour-over cone filter (I have both plastic and ceramic versions).

Or you can trim about an inch off of the larger filter. Use a scissors and follow the curve. It'll save you a trip to wherever coffee filters are sold and help you plow through your endless supply of No. 4's.

Posted: Dec 31, 2016 1:39pm UTC

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