Comments on products I’ve purchased and have strong feelings about
In the last year, my street finally had a third wave coffee shop open. They serve very high quality roasts. I love having them down the street. One day, I was short on beans, so I dropped in. The only beans they had left were from Black & White Coffee Roasters from Raleigh, North Carolina, […]
Having been raised in places with cloud cover, I found the incessant sun of Los Angeles and the architecture that invites it into every crevice overwhelming. Tired of three skylights that let in too much late afternoon sun, in Spring 2023 my wife and I bought three sheets of the Coavas Window Film Privacy Frosted […]
We have used two trash cans for diapers, the Playtex Diaper Genie Complete and the Ubbi Steel Diaper Pail. The former was chosen by my in-laws for when we stayed with them for three weeks after the baby’s birth, and the latter is what we chose for our home based on Wirecutter’s recommendation. Overall, they […]
We have used varying amounts of formula almost since our baby was born. Since my wife is in charge of breastfeeding, I have taken responsibility for formula feeding, and since I have lots of opinions, I have decided to write product reviews. Here, I compare two manual methods, one bottle at a time and the […]
If you have had to use a breast pump, you have also had to clean its parts. If you cleaned the parts, you probably did so after each pumping session, which is what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and many evidence-based websites recommend. Cleaning requires, at a minimum, rinsing with soap and water, though […]
That headline misleads slightly: the 30L backpack is a good everyday bag if photography is part of your everyday. If your everyday involves traditional office work and commuting, I suggest looking elsewhere for a bag. That is what I did, and I own happily the Nomatic Backpack. The internet world is in love with all […]
[UPDATE: My best use of academic Twitter yet. I tweeted a link to this post and quickly got pwnd by the internet. What I learned: there is a function, ggsave(), that does this that I did not know about. So use that instead of the hacky workaround I came up with. Never would’ve learned if […]
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