Thule makes several popular bike trailers, including the
Cadence
and
Chariot.
The trailers come with the Thule
ezHitch
to attach easily to most quick-release or solid axle wheels, and Thule also
sells an adapter to make the ezHitch fit on thru-axle wheels. This covers most
common bicycle setups, but it leaves out many e-bikes, which often use 12mm
solid rear axles. And that’s really unfortunate because towing a trailer is a
great way to use an e-bike! I figured out how to modify a Thule ezHitch to fit
on my e-bike with a 12mm solid axle, and I’ll show you how I did it below.
I’ve written before about my own search for The Ultimate Developer
Laptop back in 2019. I chose to buy a Dell Precision 5510, but I also mentioned a
few other laptop models that work really well with Ubuntu. Laptop series like Dell
XPS, Dell Latitude, and Lenovo ThinkPad. Well, I actually own a Dell Latitude
E7450,
and I’ve recently started using it a lot more often. It’s a small, lightweight
laptop made with high-quality parts, and it runs Ubuntu flawlessly. Mine doesn’t
have a discrete graphics card either, so I don’t have to bother with graphics
drivers in Ubuntu. The overall experience is super-smooth, and it puts a smile
on my face to use this computer!
Laptop docks are great! As I wrote about in The Ultimate Developer Laptop and My
Home Office Setup, I’ve been
using a Dell
TB16
thunderbolt dock for about two years now, and I really love it. The dock makes
it so much quicker and easier to connect my laptop to all the peripherals on my
desk. And that’s important to me because it makes it feel easy to take my work to
another part of the house or go work on the deck – I don’t feel tied down to my
desk.
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I'm a Web Software Engineer at Strava. I have experience in a range of technologies including Linux, Ruby, PHP, Scala, Java, SQL, Javascript, and Android. In my increasingly scarce free time, I develop some websites and Android apps. I maintain ConfessIt, an app for Catholics, with a 4.5 star rating after more than 550 reviews and 28,000 downloads.
I graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Colorado School of Mines in 2011 with a degree in computational and applied mathematics; I subsequently completed a Master's of Education at the University of Denver as part of the Denver Teacher Residency. After a short stint of full-time teaching, I returned to the field of software engineering at SpotX, where I worked for 3 years before joining Zen Planner and finally moving on to Strava.
