YouTube Shorts are a format on YouTube, showing short content. Originally under one minute in length, the current time limit of a short is 3 minutes. These numbers are liable to change and might not be current at the time of reading. Shorts are also shown in a "portrait" orientation, with about twice as much height as width.

YouTube Shorts are basically a way to respond to the popularity of TikTok (and Instagram Reels), showing short videos for short attention spans. Unlike normal YouTube, where videos are shown by search or browsing and selected, YouTube Shorts play automatically, based on, of course, some crazy algorithm hidden away somewhere. That leads to something like doomscrolling, only most YouTube Shorts are not very doomy, instead focusing on short explainers, personal stories, graphics, cute pets or animals, and often reused content from movies, musics or interviews. Viewers can idly scroll for hours, watching content that goes in one eye and out the

..and without taking anything away!

" …it’s inevitable that ground coffee will lose some of its flavor over time…"
—CoffeePlusThree

As a lover of coffee for itself, I consider the title a poor one, if not actually disingenuous. What does one add to coffee to make it taste better? Well that depends on what your expectations of "coffee" are in the

I should probably start with a disclaimer. I do not consider myself much of a writer. I like rocks, crafting, and spend most of my time lost in my own head, too distracted to accomplish much of anything. In addition, I haven't been noding consistently. I was here from August 2000 to June 2002, then disappeared for two decades before returning in October 2024. So really, I'm more rust than experience at this point. But someone offered me the opportunity, so here we are.