The Coffee Behind LiveWall

Chris came up with the idea to write a blog on the coffee behind LiveWall as coffee is a crucial success factor both in our life satisfaction and in the coding-nerdy-creation of the software. 😆

The thing is that none of us really can binge-drink the caffeinated brown beans, so instead of quantity we had to go for quality combined with the joy of supporting other small businesses on the way. Chris found a really lovely supplier of niche specially selected coffee beans through a subscription called “Kaffebox.no”.

The founder Tyler takes pride in sending out coffee from Scandinavian small niche roasteries -a new surprise provider every month-and only from beans that secure the coffee farmer’s fair-trade principles. We love it.

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This creates a good feel for us about our daily coffee intake and what is equally great for our personal life and marriage is that the first, freshly grinded brew in the morning makes Chris go from an outer-space-alien to something resembling a human being.

Everyone in the family knows this and occasionally jokes to him about it.

With that said…the jokes do not work in the morning, no resonance at all, so we stay away and let him sit still and meditate while sipping his first cup of this smooth, fragrant, dark, warm drink (and hopefully sooner than later raise to human consciousness!)

The rest of day is another story. The brain is awake, and the coding and work goes in a speed hardly anyone in the world can compete with. (True!)

In such a scale that during the Pandemic Aja could not take it anymore and had a wall and a door built to his open workspace. Home office can be interesting! 😅

But...the thing is that now we do have a QR code photo collecting and sharing tool for weddings and events all around the world and collabs and connections with people we are so thankful for in our hearts.

Maybe none of this would exist withought the ritual morning catatonic coffee time, who knows? 😄

Here is a short breakdown of the history of coffee (with the help of Copilot) that I find really cool to read, hope you find it interesting too. As you see, we can thank the goats for our daily indulgence:

🌍 Origins in Ethiopia

• Legend of Kaldi (9th century): An Ethiopian goatherd noticed his goats became energetic after eating red berries from a wild bush. Curious, he tried them himself and felt invigorated.
• Coffee plants are native to the Kaffa region of Ethiopia (hence the name “coffee”).

🕌 Spread to Arabia

• By the 15th century, coffee was cultivated in Yemen, especially around the port of Mocha (which gave its name to the famous coffee style).
• Sufi monks used coffee to stay awake during long nights of prayer.
• Coffeehouses, called qahveh khaneh, appeared in Mecca and later Constantinople (Istanbul). They became hubs for conversation, music, games, and political debate—earning coffee the nickname “the wine of Islam”.

🇪🇺 Arrival in Europe

• Coffee reached Venice in the early 17th century via trade with the Ottoman Empire.
• At first, some Europeans called it “the bitter invention of Satan,” but in 1600 Pope Clement VIII tasted it, declared it delicious, and gave it his blessing.

Coffeehouses spread rapidly across Europe:

• London: Known as “penny universities” because for the price of a penny, you could buy a cup and join stimulating discussions.
• Paris & Vienna: Became centers of intellectual and cultural life.

🌎 Expansion to the Americas

• In 1720, French naval officer Gabriel de Clieu smuggled coffee seedlings to Martinique, sparking cultivation in the Caribbean.
• By the late 18th century, colonies like Saint-Domingue (Haiti) supplied half the world’s coffee.
• Brazil rose to dominance in the 19th century and remains the world’s largest producer today.

📈 Modern Era

• By the 20th century, coffee had become a global commodity, second only to oil in value.
• New producers like Colombia, Vietnam, and Ethiopia joined Brazil as major suppliers.
• Today, coffee is not just a drink but a cultural ritual—from Italian espresso bars to American coffee chains to the global specialty coffee movement.

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog and even learned a bit about us and about this raw delicious, addictive caffeinated drink.

While writing this blog I was having my life-long-sometimes-one-of-the-only-motivating-factor-to-go-to-bed-and-rise-up-in-the-morning perfectly brewed fresh bean espresso (today from the Swedish “Slöinge Kafferosteri”) with oat milk next to me.

My morning sacred latte that is! 🌄

Wish you a beautiful week and feel free to also read about “The Music behind LiveWall” with a varied Spotify playlist inside!

Love,

Aja (and Chris 😋☕️)

PS! Want to know what Chris listens to while coding? Check out The Music Behind LiveWall in a former blogpost.