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Yall Need This In Your Home Office

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Liu Zuo Lin
2 min readAug 16, 2023

I usually write about Python and software engineering. But not today! Instead, this article is about how I keep my home office clean.

  • Yes, the area that I write most of my code from.
  • Yes, it is important that we keep our work stations clean!!

Well well well, what do we have here?

A tiny handheld vacuum cleaner. Which cost me less than $20.

Well, why do we have it?

  • it’s cheap
  • it’s chargeable
  • its battery lasts decently long
  • you can hold it in your hand
  • the tiny nozzle allows you to easily reach usually-unaccessible corners

BEFORE

  • I used paper towels and tissue paper to clean dust around my desk
  • For less reachable spaces eg. the hole in my PC, I used an old toothbrush to first displace the dust particles
  • I then used either a large vacuum cleaner or paper towels to clean up the displaced dust

AFTER

  • I use my mini vacuum cleaner to suck up everything
  • I’ll wipe if needed, but…

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Liu Zuo Lin
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