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I always use this site as a canonical example of The Good Internet. The kind of site that is rare today but used to be most of the internet, and we're all worse off for the change. Lightweight handmade HTML and CSS. Very little JavaScript. The site is fast as hell, instant transition between pages, it'd make a React SPA blush. The URLs don't change. The navigation is familiar and unchanging. Back button works as expe…
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OMG same! It's like when you learn how to roll up headphone wires or properly clean glasses. The temptation to do it for others (and get rejected) is way too high.
Gonna need a description of the correct way to do these things. I have a feeling I'll be one of today's lucky 10,000.
Learned this from a theatre stagehand and have been using it ever since.
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The thing about many of the "proper" headphone roll-ups is they are dependent on a particular level of minimum bending radius, tension tolerance, and elastic deformation in the cords. To put it more simply, many of them will simply ruin your headphones if they're done with reasonable frequency. For thin earbud type cords, just coil them loosely in a small plastic bag or use a loose bundle secured with a broad velcro…
I bought a giant pack of velcro straps on amazon several years ago and added at least one to every single wire or cable I use. It made a massive difference in my quality of life and I still have so many velcro straps that I find myself giving them away.
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Usually it's not the fabric but trapped dust that scratches the coating when you wipe.
Dust is harder than hard plastic?
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Dust is harder than hard plastic?
Good glasses are in fact glass with PVD coating, that's where the scratches show up. And yes dust particles are often very hard.
But yeah, dust can also definitely scratch the coatings on glass lenses, too.
And if you're really into nerdy efficiency, you get velcro shoes.
BOA for bikes.
Occasionally I have "traditional" lace-up shoes, and replace the laces with those elastic pull-string shoes.
Was gonna teach my kid how to tie shoes only to realize, they also have no shoes with laces.
I just noted that I probably haven't tied laces in over a decade.
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> Use a clean microfiber cloth. ANYTHING ELSE will scratch your lenses up. No, it wont. I'm cleaning mine for decades with anything at hand (cotton shirts, napkins, etc) and not a scratch. And of course there's the little fact that microfiber cloth is a recent synthetic thing. People used cotton and linen squares, or chamois leather ones if they felt fancy, to clean their glasses.
but glasses were made of glass, and nowadays most are plastic.
In any case, no scratches on my non-glass eyewear either.
I only realized in my 30s that I had been tying my shoelaces wrong my whole life and a super minor change in my method has changed them from coming undone multiple times per day (unless double knotted), to instead staying tied the whole day with just a standard shoelace knot [0] (also on Ian's site). This article's web page actually has the essential note: > NOTE: If your finished knot comes out crooked (eg. loops po…
Guess I have some experimenting to do.
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Good glasses are in fact glass with PVD coating, that's where the scratches show up. And yes dust particles are often very hard.
Very few people wear actual glass lenses. They are something like 1-2% of the market from what I can tell. Everyone else wears plastic lenses, which are much lighter and thus more comfortable to wear. Also slightly safer due to much reduced risk of shattering with plastic lenses. I've never even had an optometrist offer glass lenses. I think you'd have to specifically ask for them. But yeah, dust can also definitely…
You can always tell if it's glass by tint of PVD coating. Polycarbonate or acrylic lenses can't be coated. Plastic's only advantage is low manufacturing cost.