My Aeropress coffee maker. It feels more convenient than a french press, and much cheaper than an espresso machine.
Also a bidet. Americans really need to start using it more.
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#62Stormy Kromer cap
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#63My Technivorm Moccamaster coffee maker
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#64BitTorrent is amazing. It just works. Anyone anywhere can create a torrent of their files, dump the magnet link somewhere, and everyone else can reliably retrieve it. It is self-reinforcing; the more people using a torrent, the better the robustness, redundancy and download speeds. You can often get better speeds from downloading something via torrent than from a web server. It's an open protocol that is relatively e…
Wish browsers had built in support for it. Imagine if by default most downloads were through BitTorrent, and your browser would then seed the file for 1.5x the download size and time.
The Opera browser did for a short while. If I recall correctly, it was taken out since sysadmins at schools, workplaces, etc would ban the browser. Of course that behavior unfortunately ensured that bittorrent would remain a protocol mostly for piracy.
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#65Kinesis Advantage2 keyboard. Without it I would not be able to work as a software developer.
Yeah, the Evoluent Vertical Mouse gave me two working hands and a lucrative career. Pretty good value. Five Stars. Would buy again, in fact I have, so I have one for every place I use my laptop.
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#66Bialetti is at risk of going out of business so buy them while you can.
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#67https://linear.app is great. I list all sites I love here: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/design/design-inspiration#we...
I've said this before, but happy to write it over and over. One of the co-founders was my old EM at Uber. He's as sharp as they get, and very kind and humble to boot. If you are looking to support companies started by people that are definitively Not Jerks, check this one out.
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#68The best thing I ever used was iPod shuffle mini.
It was the perfect design, nothing could be added nor taken away to make it better.
But apple being Apple they redesigned it to be crap then discontinued it.
On the topic of designing great things and Apple …. Can I say that I hate Apples “minimalism above all else” approach to design. For example I want computers with lots of ports - what’s the point in buying a minimal Apple computer only to instantly plug it into another box that provides the basic ports I need for keyboard mouse external disks and camera? Somehow though the designers at Apple think this is the optimum design. I do acknowledge recent Macs bring ports back but still not enough.
I also hate it that Apple got rid of the standard headphone jack - for gods sake why? Answer: Apple designers.
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#69Moore Jig Grinding machines.
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#70My Aeropress coffee maker. It feels more convenient than a french press, and much cheaper than an espresso machine. https://aeropress.com/ Also a bidet. Americans really need to start using it more.
Honestly, I’d prefer my coffee maker to not do double duty as a butt washers, but maybe I am funny about these sort of things