Lovely! Where I’m from, we call those horse apples.

Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

This was whey left over from making yogurt? Did you just do this for the challenge, or was the end result better?

I agree with you. Something about the grease does not sit right with me. The last time I had wagyu, it was at a fancy restaurant tasting menu place where each dish contained some part of the animal. I ended up throwing up later that evening.

Drying out the cap was a good call. I think reseating the nib was what did the trick, but thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks! I took the nib and feed out, cleaned it thoroughly, and reseated it, and it seems to be working well now.

Anecdotally, I see them all the time in my neighborhood, and they seem much more attentive to pedestrians and stop signs than regular drivers. Drivers in this neighborhood act like they own the place even though there’s probably an equal number of pedestrians out at any given time.

I’ve also seen one of them fail to pull over when an emergency vehicle was behind it, so I buy that they are causing some problems.

I use fish because I have better things to do than tweak my shell configuration and debug shell plugins.

When I tried oh-my-zsh and prezto (I think?) they came with tons of plugins that performed badly and made it hard to get things done (specifically, they ran git status synchronously on every new prompt, which does not work well in a moderately large repo). Fish had similar features but wasn’t horribly slow, so I use it.

I’m storing it with the blind cap fully closed.

That’s interesting that the hand warmth can cause burping when the blind cap is closed, I had thought that closing the cap would fully seal the ink reservoir from the nib.

What is the value of shipping a laptop with Linux when the user can easily load their distribution of choice? I had an Ubuntu certified laptop from Dell in 2015, I quickly replaced it with fedora, which was much more stable on the hardware.

Thanks for all the information, everyone! I guess I’m gonna have to get a bunch of samples and report back, this seems like it will be fun!

One major downside to using nice!nanos for a Bluetooth setup is that the keyboard will likely experience more latency and unreliability than if you used wires. I built a redox using these several years ago, and I would regularly (but not consistently) experience more latency from one half than the other, which led to me getting the letters in words out of order. I haven’t heard others complain of this, but I ended up not using the keyboard because it was so frustrating.

I’ll have to give before the storm a try! That’s disappointing to hear that the third one was also a let down.

My girlfriend and I really enjoyed playing Life is Strange together like this. I think we both enjoyed the setting and characters quite a bit (high school in the Pacific Northwest). We tried Life is strange 2, but never really got into it.

I think the Exploratorium is great, it’s probably my favorite Bay Area museum. Check out the cable car museum if you’re in the area, it’s free and it’s pretty incredible to see how these machines work.

I actually had originally intended to use the 5 pin switches, but the PCB I ordered only had holes for 3 pin. Fortunately, I had extras. I guess I should’ve used a case?

It’s just a piece of cardboard that I taped it to. I’ve since replaced the floral washi tape with something more neutral hahaha.

Is that a Lamy Safari?

I have 2 ergodox EZs, a homemade redox that uses Bluetooth, and a homemade dactyl manuform.

For ergonomics, I’d say these are my priorities:

1. Split
2. Ortholinear with staggered columns
3. Tented
4. Mechanical switches

The arrangement of keys on the ergodox got me to start typing correctly, and I think the split helped a lot with my posture.

I had some bad luck with my dactyl manuform, the tenting was too aggressive, and the thumb cluster was angled in such a way that it put lots of strain on my thumb. I’m currently looking at replacing that with a Ferris Sweep.

Bluetooth was a mistake, the latency was unbearable. It led to one half of the keyboard being consistently slower than the other half, so I’d constantly make mistakes. I used nice!nanos fwiw.

I found a link to JetPens’s best pens of 2023 guide while I was on vacation in Japan, and I had to see what all the fuss was about. It’s been two months and I’ve already bought 8 pens and four inks!

I bought a black forest knockoff (made by yongsheng or something) and even that has been good, maybe I should try the real thing