Niklas Saers
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You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.

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October 30, 2006 • 18-55

Portrait

Portrait

October 28, 2006 • Photoblog

Jump!

Jump!

October 26, 2006 • Photoblog

Niklas + Christina = Sant

Niklas + Christina = Sant

October 9, 2006 • 75-300mm

Fishing

Fishing

September 16, 2006 • Coffee

Light roast

I must admit I'm getting confused with which roast is which. The two cups I've tried this morning have both been what I believe is 160C - 5m, 190C - 4m. It's very light, smells very nice like chocolate, but with both cups I've had (grinded at 5 and then 8) they have been acidy like regular coffee, watery like regular coffee and no more taste. The last cup had a decent amount of crema, but that just goes to show that you can have crema without taste.

September 15, 2006 • Coffee

45 second difference

What a difference 45 seconds makes! I had a cup of the 176C - 2m, 204C - 3m, 232C - 3m that I roasted the 12th, which is 45 seconds shorter than the roast of the 10th and it's got so much less flavour. It still tastes nice, but there are big things missing. Very interesting since these 45 seconds were slashed because I thought they'd need to be less burnt, not because I heared a crack earlier.

September 14, 2006 • Coffee

Different cups

Today has been a quite caffeinated day. I've had two cups of the light preset 1 roast, one grinded at 4 and one at 6. Both turned out quite bitter. Luckily my milk frothing is going better by the day, so they turned out to be quite drinkable.

September 13, 2006 • Coffee

Taste two

Todays cups were the four day old roast of preset 1 (only two handfulls of beans left) and the five day old very dark roast of preset 2.

September 12, 2006 • Coffee

Last roast of this batch

I'm just not concentrating today (too much coffee?) so I'm roasting the last 150 grams of Miscela d'Oro: 160C - 5m, 190C - 4m, 196C - 2m, 204C - 1m, 210C - 1m30s. I was inspired by Randy's iRoast 2 review and Ryan's summary of his first day with the iRoast 2. Now I've placed my order for a Miscela Due Doppio from Risteriet, which is 80% arabica and 20% robusta. I've heared robusta gives more crema, which is what I'm hunting for at the moment. The cups taste spectacular already. :-)

September 12, 2006 • Coffee

Day 5

Delicious, yesterdays roast turned into a cup with lots of crema. To adjust for the grind I experienced yesterday I dialled the grinder up to 6, but it went perhaps just a tad to fast through this time. But the cup is awesome: no acid, no bitterness, just lots of taste. What a lovely blend. I can't wait until saturday when these beans should be at their peak. :-)