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Fuji EnviroMAX AA vs. Sunbeam Batteries
So we have a battery hungry front door lock that requires 4-AA batteries to power. I noticed that the Sunbeam batteries purchased from Dollar Tree (3 pack for $1, or $1.33 per replacement) were getting replaced every month or so, so I was curious if that was normal as well as how much I was…
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Sylvania vs. Amazon Basics LED bulbs
I’ve been tracking the Sylvania 60W 2700K Equivalent A29 (affiliate link) vs. the AmazonBasics 60W Soft White Non-Dimmable (affiliate link) over the past year and a half after noticing that I was replacing bulbs a lot. With 40+ bulbs in the house, it’s not as uncommon as I would have initially expected to be replacing…
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ASCII/Punycode TLDs for Internationalized Domains
IANA has a list of TLDs alphabetically by domain. One thing notable are domains of in the following format: These are internationalized TLDs, specified in a Punycode encoding for the unicode domain name. Some of these representations are just for non-ascii characters: Others are representing fully non-Latin alphabets: Most of these non-Latin representations are either…