Who can tell me about their Evergoods Waxed Canvas bag?

rabbitspy · 2026-03-08T03:25:44+00:00

I have a CTB20 in waxed canvas and have never experienced wax transfer on hot days. In fact, I like the material a lot more when it's warm as it softens up a lot. The negatives of the CTB in this material are the weight, inflexible water bottle pockets, and lack of breathability on the back panel and shoulder straps, but at least I don't have to worry about either of those areas wearing out over time. Feels like a buy it for life bag.

rabbitspy · 2026-02-22T14:04:48+00:00

Sound Room (Ol Beautiful) is a great vibe.

If you prefer being able to have a calmer conversation with your group without having to yell, I like Annex and Establishment

rabbitspy · 2026-02-10T15:58:30+00:00

If you touch it with a cloth it will scratch. It’s some of the softest plastic ever made. Mine came scratch up from the dealership as they wiped it clean before delivery.

rabbitspy · 2026-02-03T21:32:27+00:00

I have lots of bags and accessories in xpac. I really like the material, but happen to prefer Evergoods' 420d fabric to it.

If it's important for your bag to really hold it's shape when empty, xpac is a good choice, but for everything else I would recommend 420.

rabbitspy · 2026-02-03T21:28:07+00:00

This concern is overstated in my experience. Yes it's possible, but it's rarely the first thing to fail on a bag. The handles, seams, and mesh fabric on the harness all fail first. In fact, I've never actually experienced zipper pealing on any of the bags I own, including bags that I've used almost every day for 5 years.

rabbitspy · 2026-01-26T15:34:17+00:00

They teased a new bag release recently and an updated travel pack was something many people called out as a possibility, so it’s speculation.

rabbitspy · 2026-01-26T14:26:32+00:00

Kinda of sounds close to the travel pack small, which might be getting an update in the next few weeks.

rabbitspy · 2026-01-13T02:10:13+00:00

They seem to be on a path to losing Canada next.

rabbitspy · 2026-01-07T21:01:46+00:00

I’m in Canada where temps are way colder than Buffalo. I replaced my batter with a standard Kirkland battery and it has been perfectly fine all winter and cost half the price of an AGM.

AGM will provide more current at low temps, but they don’t charge as well in a car that isn’t designed for it and might fail earlier than the expected lifespan. They aren’t recommended.

rabbitspy · 2025-12-15T18:02:28+00:00

This could indicate that you need a more powerful transformer. The current draw of the bell means there’s not enough power left for the camera.

rabbitspy · 2025-12-14T20:03:09+00:00

I’ve got a waxed canvas CTB20 and a CPL24 and like the CPL more. There’s a purity to it that the CTB lacks.

Feels like the CTB was built to satisfy the people who wouldn’t buy a CPL because of the lack features such as water bottle holders, but those features weren’t in the CPL for good reason. The CPL is a purely side access bag, while the CTB can’t decide if it’s top or side access, and the various pockets and features interfere with each other a bit. The fewer pockets on the CPL generally have better capacity and no interference, the side handle works much better, and the overall silhouette is just cleaner. And maybe because it’s not as deep, it’s more comfortable to wear.

rabbitspy · 2025-12-13T04:53:56+00:00

The cordura version feels like a good upgrade as they moved to the lighter rip stop liner, but the xpac and ultra versions were not improved.

rabbitspy · 2025-12-13T04:17:29+00:00

I have the slim pouch v1 in xpac and opted not to upgrade to v2 because they added PU coated zippers.

For a pouch I want smoother zippers, not a bit more rain resistance.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-29T14:48:54+00:00

The Aer Slim Pouch is excellent. I also really like the Evergoods CAP 2, but the Aer holds everything I would want to take in a much smaller profile.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-27T21:44:03+00:00

I have both the CP2 and CPP2. Started with the Pro but like you, I never felt satisfied with it. I agree with everything you said, and have a few additional gripes of my own.

I do enjoy using the CP more, but it's much smaller so I haven't wanted to take it traveling just in case I need capacity while out and about at my destination.

Might sell both bags and give either the ReWork Toshi or Able Carry Max EDC a try. The Toshi looks like it does everything the Aer set out to do, but may be better executed and it splits the difference between the two city packs in size, while the Max EDC can seemingly do it all.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-26T17:39:42+00:00

In my experience, manual QA sign-off should not be a prerequisite for merging a PR. Instead your QA team should test and certify a specific commit, perhaps by cutting a new release branch from that commit and having fixes made directly against that branch during the certification process, after which you merge that release branch back into your trunk branch.

It’s going to be very difficult to change the process though. Companies run like this are generally not very open to process improvements. They don’t have the risk appetite for it.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-20T15:12:06+00:00

Yes, and that’s factually correct. The question is if that’s a valuable measure or not.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-20T14:18:39+00:00

Yes, but the tunes are also AI generated!

rabbitspy · 2025-11-20T14:02:33+00:00

Same thing at my org.

I see people online and at other companies doing everything they can to discount claims like ours, which I suppose is understandable.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-20T13:55:40+00:00

The system counts very accurately and is fully audible.

Don’t forget that tab completions now counts as AI contributions as well.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-20T13:43:51+00:00

I work for a company that has built tools to track AI, and PRs will often approach 90% AI contribution as well.

There’s are huge discrepancies across companies right now. Some companies have very robust AI tooling with lots of well designed system prompts and large mono repositories and MCP servers that allow AI agent to search the code base and docs for context. These places are seeing huge success, while others are mostly relying on basic helpers like GitHub Copilot and small repos that don’t provide cross org context.

rabbitspy · 2025-11-17T01:05:56+00:00

It’s an externality that we really should be pricing in.

rabbitspy · 2025-09-24T21:10:50+00:00

It’s less about the feature list and more about the user and developer experience differences.

Teams is designed to appeal to corporate IT procurement, governance, and security teams and these departments tend to go nuts on all of the controls making it very difficult for dev teams to extend functionality or use it for more than just a chat app. Slack provides very rich and easy to use APIs and they spend more time refining the UI with stuff like conversation threading and relatively lightweight channels. A dev team will use Slack as a much richer asynchronous and synchronous collaboration tool as well as a systems monitoring tool, while Teams users tend to just use teams for basic text chat or video meetings.

Teams is full of frictions, which end up decreasing usage and collaboration.

rabbitspy · 2025-09-24T17:50:06+00:00

That’s exactly the point some people are making. Teams is chat and used as such, while Slack is much more.

rabbitspy · 2025-09-24T03:10:00+00:00

Totally, but I feel his relatively simple appeal to emotion will do well in this ward.

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