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Most of the effort comes at the beginning during development of the process, formulations, facility. I always produced lower quantities, about 40kg per month or over 500 chocolate …

Agreed! Tempering is a very tricky and rewarding skill as cacao butter can crystalize in multiple forms, each with its own properties (eg. shine, color, snap, stability). It is Pol…

This is a topic I studied and really love. After hacking my way into chocolate making, the results were extraordinary. I became a famous chocolate maker in Colombia, was portrayed …

Thanks for sharing Presentious. It sounds trivial, but producing lightweight presentations synced with audio is quite hard. I like how you can go ahead on audio or slides and then …

As a long time user of Harvest, I have to say it is refreshing to see open source alternatives being developed. Harvest is expensive for moderate-sized teams but their support is v…

This is really interesting, specially if it really reduces the burden of running Mysql with failover or multiple slave databases. This is similar to what is currently available on …

I agree with your points. It is indeed a viable, if somewhat clunky solution. For getting the data into S3, we found exponential improvements in using the AWS CLI, as I believe it …

I believe it is to be released Summer 2015. I've applied for the Preview though.

S3fs filesystems are really slow. We tested around 10mb/s for file upload. Where it really struggles is when you have a lot of files in a folder. Try doing an 'ls' on a folder with…

I'd recommend a Noodler's Ahab ($23.66 on Amazon). What makes it fun is that the nib is flexible, allowing broader or thinner strokes depending on pressure. Plus, its a pen built t…