Developers will evaporate throughout the process of interacting with your dev tool. That's natural. But... in real life, there are ways to slow down evaporation: * Use filtered water * Use cold water * Don't heat the pot How would these translate? Are there more ways? I have my
Previously I discussed the invisible sub-process of boiling developer water on the pour-over diagram (email titled, "Developer temperature (Pour-over, part 3)"). As I hoped, this brought up more questions that we can explore together. Lovely reader Stephen asked: Can you elaborate on "Evaporated developers"? The phrase
In the previous pour-over part 3, I pointed out that the heating sub-process represents positioning and messaging. So what does the kettle of developer water represent? Clearly, you cannot just take all the city's tap water to brew your coffee. You're taking a slice of the
In part 2 of the developer pour-over metaphor, I zoomed in on what kind of developer water is used to make community coffee: distilled or filtered, referring to the "richness" of persona development. But there's another aspect to the type of water... the temperature. I'
Coffee is 98% water so it makes sense to think about what kind of water you use to brew your Jet Black Potion of Stamina. So in the developer pour-over, if we zoom in on what type of developer water are we using, what could we say? Talk to a
