I recently moved near Seattle, where traffic is terrible but there are surprisingly many bike lanes. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of hills. For a while, I would occasionally bike to work, but the hills were intimidating and I had to re-motivate myself every morning. Around a year ago, I finally gave up and just got an e-bike.

Blue Ride1Up Cafe Cruiser e-bike with fat tires and a rear cargo rack

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I’ve been working remotely since before it was cool, and one thing I wish more people paid attention to is meeting equipment. It’s annoyingly common to join a remote meeting with someone on flaky WiFi, with a barely-understandable microphone, and a camera where they show up as a shadowy blob.

All of this is fixable, and if you work remotely it’s worth spending a little bit of money to do it. Remote meetings where you can see and (more importantly) hear each other clearly are much nicer, and lead to more natural and collaborative conversations.

A home office desk with two monitors displaying nature scenes, a white circular key light and black webcam mounted on top of the left monitor, a Sennheiser gaming headset with boom microphone, split ergonomic keyboard, and blue-gray hexagonal acoustic panels on the wall behind the desk

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Note: I updated my Pebble review to mention that I got a replacement for my defective Pebble. The support process took longer than I would have liked, but the new Pebble works perfectly.


My roommate just moved into a new apartment about 10 miles away, and I plan to …

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The first large and expensive project I backed on Kickstarter was the Pebble E-Paper Watch, which I got in black. My watch finally arrived about a week ago, so I figured I should do a review, since it gives me something to write about, and someone might find it interesting.

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