Jekyll 2026-04-08T18:26:54+00:00 https://www.aprilcools.club/feed.xml April Cools' Club https://www.aprilcools.club/ 2026-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-05:how-can-coffee-taste-peachy

My personal cheat sheet to help you better understand, buy, and enjoy coffee. With a few roasters recommendations in Finland.

Goulven Clec'h 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-03:please-or-thank-you

I sure hope I didn't make a fool of myself in a professional setting by using emoji 🙏

Waleed Khan 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-03:my-year-of-reading-chinese-history

Why I read so much Chinese history last year

Adam Chalmers 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:chants-of-sennaar-a-review

Praise for the game design of 'Chants of Sennaar'

Brendon Bown 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:on-trees-but-not-those-trees

When I'm not in front of a computer I'm probably looking for trees.

mike mull 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:myst-s-minecart-maze-is-great-actually

I tried my hand at a video essay examining the excellent thematic and mechanical puzzle design behind one of the more infamous and hated puzzles in Myst, the Minecart Maze.

ShifterChaos 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:don-t-call-it-a-comedown

I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Then I wrote a fanfic about it.

protondonor 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:chicago-vs-new-york-pizza-is-the-wrong-argument

The king of Chicago food is the hot dog.

Hillel Wayne 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:the-self-cancelling-subscription

When family TV show night became systems debugging night.

Predrag Gruevski 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:the-underrated-benefits-of-always-having-oatmeal-at-lunch

For me, eating oatmeal at lunch every day is almost a spiritual experience. Let me give you my rundown.

hazn 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:puzzlehunts

All about my involvement with puzzle hunts and the MIT Mystery Hunt.

Vikram Saraph 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:my-experience-as-a-rice-farmer

Read about my time helping out on a rice farm in rural Japan.

Daniel McKenna 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:come-ho-programmato-un-videogioco-per-game-boy-sull-amicizia-con-gb-studio

How I programmed a Game Boy videogame to celebrate friendship in my group of friends by using GB Studio (Italian 🇮🇹)

Disegni in Tasca 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:product-review-kvikk-lunsj

Kit Kat meets its nemesis

Peter Hilton 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:i-guess-i-cook-now

Chronicling my journey to becoming a home cook

Harsh Shandilya 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:how-to-decorate-a-child-s-birthday-cake

Instructions on how to decorate a simple but effective child's birthday cake

Robin Wilson 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:digitisation-is-process-optimisation

Digitisation works best when it is built on top of boring, proven technology. And when you don’t skip the actual work.

Lars Hupel 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:i-listened-to-the-1001-albums-i-should-listen-to-before-i-die

My experience listening to all albums from the book 1001 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Die

James Pontes Miranda 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:3d-printing-a-trombone

Building a perfectly playable plastic trombone for only $30

Anthony Wang 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:a-non-exhaustive-list-of-stuff-i-recommend

Various things I recommend, including food, clothes, services, and other fun things.

Georgie Cooke 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:the-irrational-decision-a-book-review

A review of Ben Recht's thoughts on rationalism

Jeremy Kun 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:how-to-get-better-at-guitar

A simple idea that changed my playing.

Jake Worth 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:celebration-of-sunshine

The magical nature of British springtime

Vivian Qu 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:personal-mineclonia-world-tour

A small-ish tour of my 1100+ day Mineclonia world I've had for about a year.

Pixelo789 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2026-04-01:spoken-latin

The merits of spoken Latin as a hobby language, and how I ended up in a Latin immersion program in Kentucky.

Felipe Vogel 2025-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-05:language-learning-anecdotes

Some anecdotes from my various experiences learning languages, including Urdu, Polish, Latin, and American Sign Language.

Waleed Khan 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:this-music-seems-to-be-in-the-air

A playlist for the times to come

Josselin Auguste 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:you-should-buy-a-meat-slicer

A video about the most important kitchen tool for hot pot and more

Bobbie Chen 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:does-baby-have-hat

On impact and building self-reliance with computers.

Jeremy Kun 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:dries-van-noten-in-five-looks

Interpreting the work of my favourite fashion designer in five looks

Michael Kibedi 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:my-coffee-setup

A summary of how I brew coffee at home

Clément Delafargue 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:my-adidas

A reflection on how I came to buy a pair of Superstars every year for the last 20 years.

James Thomas 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:find-joy-in-the-boring-bits-of-life

Embrace whimsy in your everyday.

Sadman Hossain 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:the-paris-of-our-dreams

Miyazaki, Shinkai, and pushing through dreams to reality

Vivian Qu 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:xorry-not-sorry-the-most-amusing-security-flaws-i-ve-discovered

Building your own cryptographic protocols, and why you probably shouldn't.

Predrag Gruevski 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:gamer-games-for-non-gamers

The best videogames to try if you haven't played games before.

Hillel Wayne 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:overengineering-an-obsidian-dashboard-to-get-better-at-marvel-snap

Using data to answer the ultimate gamer question - why am I so bad?

Harsh Shandilya 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:leveraging-spaced-repetition-to-power-my-weekly-newsletter

How I use Anki in an unconventional way to generate ideas and learn more intensely

Alvaro Duran 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:nimi-sin

I'm asking you to make more words. New words. Strange words. Specific words.

Leonora Tindall 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:impulse-purchases

Read about some questionable financial decisions I’ve made recently.

Yash Garg 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:egg-mayo-sandwich-optimisation

How to minimise time-to-sandwich in the kitchen

Peter Hilton 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:dynamic-graphs

A beginner-friendly introduction to an advanced topic in theoretical computer science.

Schmiddi 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:how-to-run-a-table-top-roleplaying-meetup

Advice and suggestions for running an occasional, low-committment TTRPG game night.

Nat Knight 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:a-rough-review-of-capers-jones-applied-software-measurement

The book cover promises 'statistics from more than 12,000 software projects.' A friend remarked that they couldn't imagine anything less useful than that. Were they right? I dug in.

protondonor 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:come-non-ho-riparato-la-lavatrice-che-si-riempiva-d-acqua-da-spenta

How I repaired a washing machine that it turned out it was not broken. (Italian 🇮🇹)

Disegni in Tasca 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:what-s-the-yield-on-my-stonks

At some point I wondered what the actual yearly interest of my portfolio is? Let’s figure it out.

Lars Hupel 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2025-04-01:tout-le-monde-d-teste-l-ia

How reliably does chatgpt generate correct answers?

danso 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:a-new-hope

A letter to and about the things that made me what I am.

Amogh Lele 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:the-wifi-only-works-when-it-s-raining

The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

Predrag Gruevski 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:choir-rehearsal-score-locations

How to avoid wasting time telling singers where to start

Peter Hilton 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:some-easy-recipes

Some quick and easy recipes that my family like eating

Robin Wilson 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:the-tale-of-daniel

Is 'Daniel' the oldest name still popular today?

Hillel Wayne 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:how-i-became-a-gardener

About one and a half years ago, we moved to a place with a decently-sized garden. Initially confused about whether to do anything with it, let alone what to do with it, I somehow ended up slowly becoming a gardener. Despite my total and utter cluelessness, now we have raised beds.

Lars Hupel 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:books-games-and-movies

I love books, games and movies. So I thought why not show off some of my favorites?

Schmiddi 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:decaf-is-good-actually

Decaf has a bad reputation. How did it get this reputation, and should it still?

Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:yeah-i-skate-board

I skateboard, so that automatically makes me cool, right? Right??

Ersei Saggi 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:a-tour-of-my-screenshots-folder

I've collected Minecraft screenshots for 5 years and it's time they did something other than sit on my hard drive

Harsh Shandilya 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:kratky-in-the-basement

I've been curious about hydroponic gardening for a long time, and over the winter I managed to raise my first successful crop of lettuce!

Brian Hicks 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:takerufuji-made-history

This March we witnessed history of sumo. What Takerufuji did what seemed impossible.

Ekaitz Zarraga 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:adaptive-plasticity-and-life-history-theory

When life puts you in a specific groove, it is hard to get to another groove.

Roel M. Hogervorst 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:unusual-tips-for-parenting-toddlers

Things I've tried with my three-year-old that worked.

Jeremy Kun 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:can-it-creami

The history and design of the ultimate ice cream machine

Vivian Qu 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:the-saga-of-nat

The saga of Nat, the non-binary ninja

danso 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:making-crochet-cacti

Some notes on learning to crochet tiny cacti.

Julia Evans 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2024-04-01:the-spice-didn-t-always-flow

Personal headcannon of the origin and discovery of Spice in Dune

Davis Haupt 2023-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-12:discovering-coffee-in-toulouse

Let's talk about my first steps in speciality coffee. Some books, resources, beginner set-ups, and local roasters in Toulouse.

Goulven Clec'h 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:mediocrity-can-be-a-sign-of-excellence

Three vignettes on finding and hiring great people by playing Moneyball

Predrag Gruevski 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:ten-weird-things-you-can-buy-online-and-why-you-would

Have you ever seen those lists of weird things you can buy online? It’s always just novelties and gag gifts. I’m much more interested in the weird things with a legitimate use case

Hillel Wayne 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:simple-chicken-rice

Cutting corners to make quick single-portion Hainanese chicken rice

Peter Hilton 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:we-re-knot-friends

The communal activity of making friendship bracelets, revisited in my thirties

Jeremy Kun 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:what-s-in-a-username

Why did you call yourself spigo900, of all things?

Joe Cecil 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2023-04-01:100-incredible-tofu-recipes

Media gives you listicles. Like a disease

ttto 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-05:the-right-tempo-for-renaissance-polyphony

How fast to sing sixteenth century church music

Peter Hilton 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:marathon-food

I will give you tips to eat while running, and also talk about different marathon foods I have tried, and what I like or dislike about them

Felienne Hermans 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:i-microscopes

Seeing the world through a new (40x) lens

Hillel Wayne 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:cocktails

Cocktails as craftsmanship, and an ode to the variety of ingredients and techniques that can turn any flavor into a beverage

Jeremy Kun 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:to-ace-exams-practice-the-easy-questions

Most tests are tests of speed, not tests of knowledge. Improve your speed to improve your results!

Predrag Gruevski 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:on-error

What science, art, and humor have to say about what error is and how it should make you feel

Ben Brubaker 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:midaregami

A translation of the first five poems of the Midaregami, a historic (and extremely good) compilation of poetry. Three of them have never been seen in English before!

ttto 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:ubj-gb-ernq-ebg13-how-to-read-rot13

Would you like to learn a skill that will make your life objectively worse? Great! Here's how to read ROT13

David R. MacIver 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:you-should-charge-more

How to use social graphs to price different types of freelance services

Marianne Bellotti 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.aprilcools.club,2022-04-01:coffee-and-me-a-seven-year-love-affair

All my hottest takes on hot (and cold) coffee

Chelsea Troy