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Instacart Receipt Analysis - Kroger

My Instacart shopper this week gave us the receipt for our order. I compared the prices Instacart paid for the items in our order against the prices on the Kroger receipt. In summary, the prices are pretty much the same. If there are Kroger card savings on an item, then Instacart keeps the savings for itself. Instacart seems to try to match the current prices for produce, but it gets the prices wrong sometimes. Sometimes the error is in Instacart's favor, and sometimes it's in the customer's favor.

2020.05.24 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

I Use a Bidet, You Should Too

I've been a bidet owner for over three years now. I bought a bidet at my wife's behest despite my bank account's objections to its high price tag. Through my years of ownership, I've become so accustomed to the extreme cleanliness I get with my bidet that I dread using any toilet other than my own. Recently, I began investigating the health, environmental, and economic benefits of owning a bidet, and they were all better than I imagined.

2020.05.17 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

How to use TypeScript with Gatsby

I was planning to write a blog post showing you how to setup Gatsby to work with TypeScript, but then I realized it was easier to just make a Gatsby starter. So since I've already done all the hard work for you, this blog post is going to more about what Gatsby and TypeScript are than getting them to work together.

2020.05.03 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

My Home Office Setup

If you're working from home, you're probably using a computer all the time. Your computer is your tool. Tools are there to assist us in completing tasks. You should select tools that help you the most in completing tasks. In setting up my home office, I kept that in my with each piece of equipment I selected.

2020.04.26 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

An Opinionated Guide to Working from Home

I've been working from home full-time for the past 10 months. I'm currently a software engineer, and the company I work for had a number of other software engineers that were working remote full-time before I joined. I'd like to share a few things that I think are important about working from home now that more and more people are starting to work from home for the first time.

2020.04.19 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson
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