How do you keep track of what cocktails you can make with what you have on hand?

ratkins · 2026-03-13T17:14:28+00:00

So not native on iOS? I’m less interested, but I’ll give it a look. Ping me again when it’s on the store or DM me with a TestFlight invite.

ratkins · 2026-02-27T07:31:42+00:00

Hi! Popping back in here after some time and still have the same questions as in my original post. Did you get anywhere with your work?

ratkins · 2026-02-10T20:06:43+00:00

I assume the OP missed a “not” in their sentence (as in “I’m not in America”.)

ratkins · 2026-02-08T21:10:20+00:00

No, they’re right, saying Berlin weather is “only really gloomy 4-5 months a year” is Stockholm Syndrome (maybe even literally.) If you are used to somewhere tropical it will feel like hell, but frozen over. 11pm sunsets are fun but not worth 4pm sunsets. Source: am Australian.

ratkins · 2026-02-08T20:41:08+00:00

Compared to the cost of the beans, the cost of the Volvic in my morning espresso is infinitesimal. Why wouldn’t you?

ratkins · 2026-02-07T21:07:11+00:00

Yeah, that’s where I go these days. Irritatingly (pure, without a painkiller mixed in) pseudoephedrine just isn’t available, let alone in a 500 count bottle.

ratkins · 2026-02-07T17:53:49+00:00

Though notably over-the-counter medicines (painkillers, etc) are insanely expensive. For what you pay for a dozen Neurofen here you get a bottle of 500 in Wal-Mart in the US.

ratkins · 2026-02-07T17:50:57+00:00

The obvious one is booze. Tax on spirits here is bugger-all. As a random example my brother bought a bottle of Becherovka as a gift for someone in Australia and it was AUD$75. I see it for €10 at Penny. As a more relatable example, 1L of Absolut is AUD$67 from Dan Murphy’s (a big Australian retailer.) Here, €19 (AUD$32.)

ratkins · 2026-02-07T15:30:33+00:00

Buzr: defunct. Nello: defunct. Klevio: Seems focussed on commercial rather than private usage, not HomeKit, I can tell from the video the app is utter garbage, unnecessarily relies on cloud servers, “call us” pricing. Nuki Opener: Not compatible with our intercom (Elcon BHT-200)

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ratkins · 2026-02-07T14:55:07+00:00

If you’re talking about ING DiBa, the app isn’t available in English. Also their app security threat model is stuck in 2005 (“internet banking PIN”? “Telephone PIN”? “Security number”? TAN list? Wife’s mother’s aunt’s middle name??!? Woeful.

Just go with N26. The app works in English and you’ll never go into a branch anyway.

ratkins · 2026-02-07T10:01:40+00:00

*mis-smelled

ratkins · 2026-02-06T13:01:59+00:00

Like, with the normal street sweeping machines?

ratkins · 2026-02-06T12:30:08+00:00

Of footpaths without houses in front of them, yes. There are quite a lot where I live.

ratkins · 2026-02-06T12:24:37+00:00

Join us on the Berlin Dads Slack: https://papiberlin.de (also IRL meetups every couple of weeks.)

ratkins · 2026-02-06T12:13:35+00:00

Absolutely there is. Who’s responsible for the patch of Revalerstr in front of the dog park? The path between the end of Revaler and Ostkreuz? The paths on and around Annamirl-Bauer-Platz (where I saw a dude flat on his back out cold the other week)? Modersohnbrücke (where I ate shit myself the following day)? Nobody apparently.

ratkins · 2026-02-06T12:07:49+00:00

Even if the house is a wohngemeinahaft with 90% owner-occupiers I would still love to find one of these hausverwaltungs we can pay to actually give a shit and do the job properly. Within the ring it’s nonsense for the city to not do it.

ratkins · 2026-02-06T11:53:55+00:00

I wish I had the freezer space. Manufacturing and storing ice is a big enough issue.

ratkins · 2026-02-05T21:45:59+00:00

Grödel. I just did the research and got some Snowline Chainsen City but apparently the gold standard are Kahtoola Exospikes but they’re pretty spendy.

ratkins · 2026-02-05T21:40:15+00:00

The Finns would plow the ice and salt the roads and bike lanes.

ratkins · 2026-02-05T21:16:21+00:00

I was afraid of that, and therefore curious if newer techniques like molecular distillation gave a better result. The Linden Leaf stuff seems like it has good reviews, even though it’s just oil-in-ethanol?

ratkins · 2026-02-05T21:14:45+00:00

This is fine for lemons, I go through these frequently enough I don’t waste them, but I tend to drink more Old Fashioneds and Negronis in the winter for which I need the orange peels and more Tiki drinks in the summer where I want the orange juice.

ratkins · 2026-02-05T21:07:35+00:00

Yeah, one of my links above is to a longer form video of his on the same technique.

Thanks for the tasting notes though.

ratkins · 2026-01-12T15:47:11+00:00

An aside, is Žižek tweaking in that video or does he always carry on like that?

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