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Share your SOTD for Sunday!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

April 27th, 2025

  • Brush: Wolf Whiskers "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
  • Razor: Koraat 15/16 Full Hollow (4)
  • Lather: Barrister & Mann - Roam Two - Soap
  • Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Jitterbug - EdP

I'm still hard at work getting my Shaving Data System a bit more polished, and it's getting close!

Baserow is the software that it's built in, and there seems to be one or two bugs that I (we?) might have to live with. Namely on a mobile phone you can't search for items. People who decide to put hundreds of soaps in might struggle with that. Works great on real computer, though. Haven't tested yet on an iPad.

Anyway, as far as the shave goes -- great! I think @[email protected] is right, I might end up preferring the Moarteen. Today was almost "easy", although I only did two passes on account of time constraints and not wanting to feel rushed. Still decent results, but maybe not quite good enough if I had to work, for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m really enjoying following your progress. As time goes by, it gets easier and easier. Then there’s a day you realize that your shave is almost as close as a DE shave is. Then, after fiddling with technique a while, you realize you can get a shave as close, or closer, than you can with a DE shave, and with less irritation. Then, (for me at least) after more shaves, comes the realization that a straight razor shave takes about the same time as a DE shave does. (But is much more satisfying imo 🤔)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I can definitely see it being more satisfying once it becomes second nature.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Namely on a mobile phone you can't search for items.

Not a real solution, but on mobile you can always choose to "Desktop Site" and get the same page as on a computer. At the price of a little scrolling and zooming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tried that already (in Firefox, at least), and it didn't solve the behavior. It gives the input box like it should, and the keyboard pops up as it should, but typing doesn't do anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I did find a weird workaround which I described in today’s sotd post. So that’s good…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yah very weird. I haven't looked into if there's an open issue or PR yet, but it's the thing in Chrome, even in Desktop mode.