Review

A review of the Aer Travel Sling 2 X-Pac after one year of heavy-duty travel use.

A brief review of the Garmin tactix 7 AMOLED smartwatch, coming from an Instinct 2X Solar Tactical Edition, specifically focusing on a feature that is exclusive to Garmin’s high-end models: The Electrocardiogram.

Having gotten rid of my sole multimedia editing machine – a 2018 MacBook Pro – and tried but failed to implement a workflow on my computer, I set out and tried a different approach with the Google Pixel Tablet. Instead of using Google’s Android, however, I’m running GrapheneOS. This is a brief review of my experience with the De-Googled Pixel Tablet.

In 2024 I was lucky to enjoy a wide variety of great coffees from roasteries in Honolulu, Seoul, Vietnam, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and other cities. This is a compilation of many of the coffees I got to taste.

It has been roughly a year since I got my 9Barista jet-engineered stovetop espresso machine, which has ever since been my go-to method for brewing coffee. This post is an introduction and brief review of my experience with the espresso maker.

The Google Pixel 9 has just been released, making this probably the best time to snap up its predecessor, the Pixel 8 – a solid phone with years-long software support – and switch to GrapheneOS along the way!