DF64 Gen 2 coffee grinder
About a year ago, I wrote about the Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder and explained that, while it’s a capable grinder, I bought it merely as a stopgap ...
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Lavazza and the point of diminishing returns
One concept I feel a lot of people in the espresso communities need to learn, or re-learn, is “point of diminishing returns”, sometimes also called ...
Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder
I’ve said in coffee reviews on this blog that my grinder is the Compak K3, which is a motorized grinder with 58mm flat burrs. And for 8-1/2 years, it was ...
Verena Street Shot Tower Espresso
I’ll say up front that it’s possible my experience with this coffee is one-off. And I certainly hope it is. But it’s a horrible enough experie...
Pitch Black Espresso – Blackout Coffee
Okay… I decided to give in. I’ve seen Blackout Coffee advertised by a couple YouTube creators I follow. And I’d been… wishy-washy about ...
Geekworm X680
As said in my review of the KVM-A8, I picked this up at the same time, though I had to wait longer to put it into service. At the time I bought the KVM-A8, I al...
Geekworm KVM-A8
For the longest time I wanted a KVM connection to my OPNsense router. I have a KVM-over-IP appliance on my rack. An Avocent MPU2032 I bought back in 2018. (Vert...
Firefly III is not double-entry accounting
Double-entry accounting doesn’t have much in the way of rules. But one is paramount: all debits in a transaction must equal all credits. But there is no l...
Extended warranties and repair plans
“Extended warranties” have a bad rep in retail. In large part because they are pushed by cashiers and sales persons who earn a commission selling th...
Zenith Self-Prying Pro-Bar
Buy it now at Home Depot or Amazon.com. This year’s major house project has been attic insulation. And getting all of the old out to put down the new has ...