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Review: Kitchen SinkShroom Steel Sink Strainer

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-06-17T22:32:43-07:00Feb 8, 2021 - Monday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 3 mins.Keeping the sink strained is a MUST for keeping debris out of plumbing and potentially clog things up. Take for instance an incident in 2013 at our investment property: rice grains collected into a massive, solid ball over time that completely stopped anything from passing through! Yes, rice did that! But don't garbage disposal units take care of grains? Surprisingly, no. The Kitchen SinkShroom strainer brought back some sanity and convenience into our home.

WordPress Speed Optimization with Custom FontAwesome Icon Font (Avada Theme)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-07-19T09:04:05-07:00Feb 6, 2021 - Saturday|Technology|

Read: 6 mins.If you care about optimizing your website's performance to improve its search engine ranking, one of the things to evaluate is the number or size of fonts in use. The Avada Theme used by this site is wonderful but also very bloated. I went to create a Custom Icon Font with just the images the site needs to speed up the time it takes to load this site. However, I unexpectedly ran into an issue of the icons disappearing from the Classic Editor (TinyMCE) toolbar. This post details the problem and the workaround I implemented.

Review: Goal Zero Nomad 200 Foldable Solar Panel (vs Boulder 200)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2022-05-10T21:01:56-07:00Jan 29, 2021 - Friday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 12 mins.The Jackery SolarSaga 100 solar panel previously impressed me with its rigid body, light weight, and quick deployment. However, there were times where I wanted my higher-capacity power stations (like the Goal Zero Yeti 1500x or Jackery Explorer 1000) to be charged more quickly for a variety of reasons. The solution: multiple solar panels or a single, high-capacity one. In this review, I break down the Pros and Cons of having two 100W panels versus one 200W, the Goal Zero Nomad 200. I also explored how to use the Nomad with other companies' power stations (like Jackery) and was surprised how easy it was.

Review: Bountech Inflatable Bounce House (Castle 6-in-1 with Long Slide)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-09-09T23:26:05-07:00Jan 26, 2021 - Tuesday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 8 mins.When we purchased the Bountech Sweet House three months ago, our children loved playing with it in our backyard. However, despite the great opportunities it afforded for parents to interact with the kids, the play pit area underneath the curved slide had the tendency for the little ones to hurt themselves when they fell onto the unpadded ground. We looked into the Bountech Castle 6-in-1 with Long Slide to see how it would compare with the Sweet House. What our son told us was surprising.

Review: Costzon Convertible Bunk Bed (Twin-over-Twin, White, Wooden)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-10-28T17:31:31-07:00Jan 25, 2021 - Monday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 3 mins.A bunk bed was one of the joys my brothers, cousins, and I had enjoyed for the first decade of my life -- memories that are still with me today. I wanted to provide my children with the same feelings while also opening up a small, 10' x 12' bedroom for them to enjoy. Out went the Ikea, full-sized bed, and in came a white, convertible, twin-sized bunk bed that left our son overjoyed with happiness and a feeling of relaxation for us, the parents.

Taskbar Icon/Button Width Too Wide in Windows 10

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-09-09T23:10:03-07:00Jan 20, 2021 - Wednesday|Technology|

Read: 2 mins.I recently ran into an odd, visual behavior with the Windows 10 Taskbar where each application label was too wide and wasted valuable screen estate. Rather than showing just the first handful of characters of the application name and cutting off the rest, each button took up a wide portion of the taskbar. Here is how to fix or change the Taskbar buttons' minimum width back to default or to a desired length.