Ari Miller

Having lived in SF bay area for so long, I came to know the big coffee culture scene here. I was totally consumed by it a while ago and spent years trying to attain the “perfect" latte. I published a fun coffee story and my entire home setup, which took weeks of research and multiple iterations, in my blog link in bio. Meanwhile, to all fellow coffee loving tech peeps, here are some top tips that no one told me. Put it in practice at home or in microkitchens. - A big factor in preparing milk suitable for latte art is pressure of the wand. If this is important to you, you need to get a machine that has a strong enough pressure. - When pulling shots, put in 18g of beans and extract 30g of espresso. - The darker the roast, the coarser the setting should be on the grinder, the lighter the roast, the finer the setting should be. - When adjusting the grind setting, do so while the grinder is working if there are beans in the hopper. Otherwise, a bean can get stuck between the burrrs. - Pulling a shot should take 20-30 sec in time, or based on observation. It should look like caramel going out, not a waterfall. - Eventually work your way to using a bottomless portafilter. It punishes you for all the small imperfections when preparing your coffee puck, like any tilt, and uneven distribution. It does so by spraying the espresso all over the place. The more you can get it to flow uniformly, the better your preparation of espresso, objectively. - Seal your beans in a vacuum, so they don’t go stale. The more stale the beans, the more minor adjustment you need to make to grind finer. - When steaming milk in your pitcher, you can tell if it’s done by holding the pitcher and as soon as the heat becomes unbearable i.e. stings, it’s done. - Taking a latte art course at a local coffee shop was the best boost for me to start nailing latte art.

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Here's something counterintuitive; taking on more investment risk reduces long-term returns: https://lnkd.in/gHwkjHmP This is only my second investment video, so I'm still learning. If you have any feedback, I would love to hear it. Based on the feedback from the first video, I tried to make the audio more balanced on this video. I also shortened the length, to make the content more digestible.

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We're thrilled to announce a fresh new update that makes importing large numbers of candidates, contacts, or companies easier than ever! 🚀 This latest enhancement introduces mapping templates, a user-friendly feature that allows you to seamlessly map CSV or XLS file fields to Recruit CRM fields. Result? Significant reduction in manual effort, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in data importation. Let’s see this in action. Book a free demo with us today, and our product experts will walk you through how it can fit perfectly into your existing hiring process. Link in comments. #recruitcrm #recruitment #update #productupdate #featureupdate

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BREAKING: Aptos sets a new record on 8/14/24 with 326 million user transactions in a day (see https://lnkd.in/gbnfMGmx). That's an average of ~3766 user txns per second over a day, with fees as low as ~$0.00005 per txn. The network continued normal operations during the day without issues. This achievement more than doubles the previous record set (also by Aptos) of 154.4 million on 5/25/24 (~1787 txns per second over that day). The previous records were 95.6 million (Aptos) on 5/24/24 and another chain with 65.8 million in 7/23. Aptos now holds the top three records for daily transactions and is the clear infrastructure leader in mainnet throughput and speed in production. Remarkably, these transactions are not simple or trivially parallelizable either. They access global state (shared counters) that serialize transactions on other networks and are only parallelizable on Aptos. Web3 infrastructure is ready for the large-scale and novel use cases in the world. Major innovation to continue rolling out in the coming months!

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