jeansburger

Out. In, you'll smash your thumb into oblivion.

What a photogenic cutie!

I have a Rancilio Silvia for my morning latte, still trying to figure out how to steam the milk to make latte art though...

If I'm having a gesha though I'll make either an aeropress (Hoffman method) or V60 (4:6 method)

I had a similar machine for a while before I gave it to my brother. The pods are okay, but the cost of them especially as a student would add up really quick. I used refillable pods which were better but then you need a grinder (the espresso in a bag at the supermarket you can't adjust really well). In any case the coffee out of either the normal pods or the refillable ones weren't very good (too sour/too bitter). You can hide it with milk but then what's the point?

I'd recommend getting a pour over setup or an aeropress if you want quick and cheap. You can probably get a pretty good set of equipment that doesn't lock you into a proprietary ecosystem and still let's you get decent coffee in the morning. The cost of the machine plus some pods you'd probably be able to get a decent hand grinder, temperature controllable kettle, an aeropress, and a bag of coffee that will make leagues better coffee then the nespresso.

Designing and building mechanical keyboards. Over the pandemic I asked the dumb question to my group of friends who are engineers "Hey how do keyboards work? You think I can build one from scratch?" One of my friends is a electrical engineer and I'm a computer engineer so basically we had both skillsets needed to build and design everything from scratch. The only "out of the box" thing we used was the firmware but that was based on an open source firmware (QMK) but we had to contribute to the project to get our keyboards to work. The PCB was custom, the case was custom and 3d printed on my own 3d printer.

I've been using the keyboard we built for over two years and it's worked flawlessly (unless I'm messing with the firmware). There's things I would have done differently but that's what this current rendition is but now kinda off the walls because why not.

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