Coffee
Roasting notes, brewing experiments, origin learning, and customer education.
Writing
Writing
Coffee, business, engineering, and leadership notes by Robert Phillips.
Future posts will live here as a unified writing hub. The older development blog remains archived while this space becomes the home for current coffee, business, engineering, and leadership notes.
Business
Founder lessons from building Acer Coffee while staying close to software work.
Engineering
Modernization, CI/CD, testing, composable architecture, and pragmatic delivery.
Leadership
Teams, responsibility, communication, faith-shaped integrity, and durable work.
Archive
Earlier development posts
Older posts are still available for continuity, but the main writing direction is shifting toward current work, coffee, business, and leadership.
Open old blog archiveThe Better Ask
How to better your ask to get more helpful responses Do you ever struggle getting help or even more, simply getting a response sometimes? I …
Climbing the Redux Thunk learning curve
Preface: I am not an expert. I am just learning React and wanted to learn Thunk and Redux. This is me documenting my learning journey and …
Static Site Generators Pros, Cons, & Surprises
Photo by George Coletrain on Unsplash What are ‘Static Site Generators’ (SSG’s), what are the pros and cons, and when …
Using Mapbox GL JS API with React
Photo by Thor Alvis on Unsplash For our first React map/routing project, my team decided to use the Mapbox GL API to display locations on a …