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@mrled Also, sounds like you might as well return the grinder and get a new cheap one!

@mrled What I'm saying is your opinions are wrong but your observations are right. 😂

@mrled I'm on the burr grinder light roast, brown-not-black black coffee train so our tastes here are not aligned. But I do remember the very fine and also chunky grounds that produced the Rita Maya crude oil I used to drown in cream and sugar before drinking.

@jifarris ohshi

@mrled Couldn't agree with you more about flavored coffee sucking. But it can spur new coffee gear purchases, at least. (There's a conspiracy theory somewhere in there.)

Maybe I like having some fine and some coarse grounds? I don't think my spinning blade grinder is consistent. Plenty of times I'd notice half a bean in there with the rest of the ground coffee, for instance. But maybe I like ground size variety more than purity or consistency.

Would be very curious if someone else out there agrees or has a different theory. I don't think I've ever heard someone say they actively prefer a cheap grinder, and lots of people say the opposite. I often like fancy/fussy things! Just not this one (so far).

All in all, my conclusion is, flavored coffee sucks. Thanks for reading.

It didn't foam as much when I added the water to the grounds, meaning I got more water than I wanted in the cup, so it was thinner and more translucent, and it didn't have those nice lines like "wine legs" on the side of the cup.

I've now had two more cups, and going for maximum coarseness has greatly improved the output, but it still isn't as good as the output I get from a spinning-blade grinder. Why is this?

The claimed benefit of a burr grinder is precise control of the size of the resulting grounds. Spinning blade grinders pulverize the coffee so there is a bunch of grounds that are fine and a bunch that are coarse and a bunch in between. Burr grinders produce a consistent size.

In the meantime, I'd always heard that a burr grinder was worth the money, but everyone recommends a Baratza Virtuoso and it is $250. I bought a $100 Oxo burr grinder instead, and I still think I overpaid, but I wanted to try it, and couldn't convince myself to spend $250.

And the result is just not as good! I first tried a medium grind for 10 sec, and it tasted like fussy pour-over coffee that I've had in expensive shops everywhere. Too thin, and somehow too light. More brown than black. You wouldn't look at it and think, "ahh, crude oil".

However, someone who shares a kitchen with me has switched to this gorilla piss. No amount of cleaning the crappy grinder that we (used to) share can get out the taste of Cookies & Cream Windex or whatever they use to flavor this garbage. I am speaking to my attorneys about this. https://t.co/bdRTYPYKwh

I love the coffee I make more than any coffee I've ever bought in a shop. I have an Aeropress, a $15 coffee grinder, and an electric kettle. I buy Ruta Maya medium roast. I grind about an ounce of coffee per brew. It's the perfect setup. https://t.co/j4jGTYb7vc

While I do enjoy coffee out all the time, I'm not exaggerating when I say that setup is my favorite. It produces thick black coffee that is a bit oily and totally opaque, with very rich chocolatey-type flavors, without the burnt flavor of a darker roast. It's so fucking good.

For more context, I'm not usually a fan of citrusy/fruity coffee, and I like dark chocolate type flavors a lot more. Medium roast is my favorite. When I can't get Ruta Maya, I get a Summer Moon medium roast from the shop around the corner, also excellent. https://t.co/8i8T22SfRe

I think I might prefer the output of a cheap $15 coffee grinder to an expensive burr grinder. This requires some backstory.

This is what programming feels like https://t.co/mzmlyDgf6i

💜 citizen science https://t.co/cF65WpnTfJ

i will fix this fucking navbar if it's the last thing i do

I'm now archiving everything I tweet to https://t.co/lvALAy9Qgd too. (I only update it irregularly though, there is no automatic archive, it's just whenever I run the script and rebuild the site for now.)

Made a Python program and Hugo theme for archiving tweets to your blog. https://t.co/HuM1rGjbP7

With a custom ErgoDox case, a Raspberry Pi Zero, and some electronics to let it accept a wireless mouse dongle and get PoE, I could reduce a lot of cable clutter under my desk. Also it just seems neat.

Dumb idea I want to make: A keyboard with a Raspberry Pi inside that is connected to Power over Ethernet, and no other cables.

Background: I have a Synergy controller, a small server that my mouse and ErgoDox keyboard is always attached to. My work and personal laptops are side by side on my desk, and they run Synergy clients that talk to the controller.

@liminal_warmth Is there somewhere else it could be leaking from? This happened to me, leaking from the washing machine faucet, down the wall, and under the floor, pooling 6ft away from the leak. (Unfortunately, the fix was expensive; water damaged flooring + 6” of drywall in every room.)

@Luckboy28 For me it’s never the sites I use all the time, it’s the one thing I am afraid to close or I’ll forget to do it.

If the fridge was leaking I would expect moisture on the fridge somewhere!! It's driving me nuts

We don't have an icemaker and there's no clear source for where so much water would come from. It's like a puddle, appears multiple times each day. I just cleaned it up but you can see the rough outline in this pic I drew https://t.co/cJNkuUuPA4

But when I look really closely there's no unbroken source of the water that's coming out from under the fridge anywhere and there's no moisture below either the fridge or freezer door It's like it appears magically, 3-4 inches from the refridgerator

There is mystery water appearing in the kitchen near the fridge and it's driving me absolutely crazy because I can't figure out where it's coming from It looks like it's leaking out of the fridge somehow, like it's always below and spreading to the left of the fridge

@mrled https://t.co/Q9yJ12WHOC stayed open for years

I wonder what's the longest I've kept a tab around before closing it is.

Tabs you can't bring yourself to close, but which you choose not to migrate to your new browser. Tabs so precious you carefully bring them in to your new browser.

@darkdot_ @DarkDotFail What use is a captcha to sign up for an email newsletter?

Introducing Darkdot. We follow emerging privacy technologies and the consequences of their use. We are a continuation of @DarkDotFail's original reporting, at a larger scale. Stay tuned, there's a lot on its way. https://t.co/7FMqbLNLU3

Many years since we've done such an exemplary study. That's right, the first potato diet analysis is out! https://t.co/SkSXqwnWsR

This is sick 😍 https://t.co/G0fqIaoTyv

RT @AliceOllstein: Love like you'll never be hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Text like you might someday have your phone records se…

Love like you'll never be hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Text like you might someday have your phone records seized by a congressional select committee.

tfw u must reimplement some asshole's code in a different lisp https://t.co/Mz6bztqipi

Why are Google Docs typing suggestions?? Who needs to press enter instead of typing two whole words? Distracting af

Hmmm, I wonder if it's useful for counteracting stylometric fingerprinting a la https://t.co/rnnOdAzAFL

From there it could get loaded into ArchiveBox https://t.co/UqELItzBRV. (I had an experiment along these lines last year but never really polished it up. I found that ArchiveBox got stuck a bunch and needed to be thwacked and asked to reindex.)

Grabbing URLs from browser profile history is pretty easy. You could run this in a cron. https://t.co/bj9iImQtqz

Maybe that's a bad example (Github search is actually good AFAICT) but like, if there was something to pull in a full text index of every web page you visited maybe that would beat Google at certain queries

Like would I be better off with Google Search for code on Github, Github search for code on Github, or some process that auto mirros Github repos I've browsed before and puts them in a local Sourcegraph instance

Is Google Search getting bad enough that we need to start maintaining our own indexes or is that being paranoid

Psyched that the LED throw blanket turned out just how I'd hoped it would! It's late now, but tomorrow I'm going to try to coordinate patterns with the LED pillows. https://t.co/E27dyRopDw