Writing tagged "review"
Two weeks with the Pebble Time 2
Remember the Pebble smart watch? The device that originally came out in 2012 could be considered the OG of smart watches, and was pretty radical for its time.
I backed the Kickstarter campaign for the original black and white model and wore it for many years until the battery capacity dropped to only last for two days, and stopped wearing watches entirely for a while. That’s quite ironic, considering that even for present day smart watches, a two day battery life would be considered pretty good.
Are ceramic key caps as awesome as they sound?
I’ve been watching Cerakey’s products for a while. The sheer idea of mechanical keyboard caps being made out of ceramic sounds intriguing.
The stock caps on the Keychron K6 I use at the office or when traveling haven’t been doing well for a while:
- Multiple keys’ paint started coming off. Less of an issue for finding the keys (I know where they are), more of an aesthetic issue.
- The G key’s switch stem broke off and got stuck in the G key cap. After failing to extract the broken part from the cap, the cap was essentially lost and I replaced it with a generic translucent cap from a switch tester.
So I bought one of those fancy South Korean IPS monitors...
Recently, people on the Internet have been talking about (comparatively) cheap 27“ monitors from South Korea with a glorious 2560x1440 resolution. Jeff Atwood and Scott Wasson wrote about it, and summarized their critiques fairly positively.
For something around €300, you can order a monitor like this from a South Korean ebay vendor. Shipping and an international power adapter are included. The monitors are of brands I’ve never heard of in the West, so I guess they mainly supply Asian countries.