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Coming from Rails, where migrations are a solved and slightly boring thing. Getting started on Workers and D1 and I cannot tell what the normal workflow is. Is what people genuinely use in production, or is that the…
Many languages assign a gender to every noun, which affects the noun and the words agreeing with it. English mostly does not, aside from a few paired forms like actor and actress. I have always wondered what that…
14 day trial, no card required. Over three weeks one person created roughly 60 accounts from what is clearly the same mailbox same name with dots moved around, and a batch with plus suffixes. Same browser fingerprint,…
A stellar mass black hole would tear anything apart well before it reached the horizon. I am curious about the opposite extreme. Suppose a black hole with the mass of an apple existed and sat on a table. Its…
Sanity checking before I build on this. "How do I reset my password" against a paragraph about our office move scores 0.86. A genuinely relevant paragraph scores 0.89. That is a three point gap between right and…
crawler on a worker saves the rendered html for each page it visits, roughly 40k snapshots a month, and each one is 1 to 3 mb of text. i need to query by url and date and occasionally diff two versions. putting the blob…
Spread over three registrars because I bought them at different times in different moods. One is a live site, two are redirects, the rest are ideas I have not built. The renewal emails now arrive at a rate of about two…
Career changer, two months into a junior role, and I am closing tickets at a rate nobody has complained about. The problem is that in review I cannot explain why the code is shaped the way it is, and last week I could…
Started on whole rye, moved to white bread flour at day 4, 100% hydration, one feed a day, kitchen sitting around 26C. Day 3 was spectacular, bubbles, doubled, smelled like beer. Days 6 to 9 it has been flat liquid that…
Bought a hybrid eleven months ago that everyone including me thought was medium and it sleeps like a table. Trial window closed in month four, so returning it is not an option and I am not buying another bed this year.…
Two metres of counter, oven on the opposite wall from the sink, so every pan of pasta gets carried across the only bit of floor where a small person tends to be. Twice this month I have turned around with a knife in my…
Eating window is twelve till eight, training is at seven in the morning before work. Currently taking creatine, a multivitamin, vitamin D and whey after training. Whey obviously has calories so that one is not a…
Closing a single tab happens immediately and silently, even if there is a half written message in it. Closing a window with several tabs often produces a confirmation. Some browsers let you enable a warning for the…
Student, genuinely cannot spend money on this right now, and I need something for a shared flat network where the router is run by a landlord who has admin on it. I mostly want the flatmates and the router owner not to…
I use models about two hours a day for code and for summarising documents I would rather not upload anywhere, and my API bill has been running around $40 a month. I have a 3060 12GB in my desktop now, which handles…
Somebody gave me a substantial bag of a very dark roast as a gift. It looks almost black, it smells burnt, and brewed it tastes of ash and bitterness. I am not opposed to dark coffee, I enjoy a properly dark Italian…
Asked it to fix an off by one in a pagination helper. It fixed the off by one. It also renamed four variables, extracted two functions, turned a for loop into a reduce, added JSDoc to everything, and changed the error…
Rewriting navigation in an app with 31 distinct screens. Two of us, both iOS, no plans to add a third. Requirements that are not negotiable: universal links have to open any screen with the right back stack behind it,…
Rate limiting in , 10 requests per minute per IP, matcher on . Support tickets started coming in: people get a 429 after roughly five clicks around the dashboard. Logged every invocation with the URL and headers. Every…
Two of us, one app, about 30k lines. 400 Vitest unit tests and 22 Playwright specs today. I want component level coverage for the fiddly design system parts a data table with sticky columns and a combobox with keyboard…
It is a 200ml mineral lotion, opened about eleven months ago, spent most of July in the door pocket of a car that gets properly hot. The texture looks slightly separated but it mixes back when I shake it. There is no…
Roughly 340 signups over two months, 145 of them never verified and therefore never got into the app at all. That number feels enormous. My instinct is to drop verification entirely and let people in. But I assume there…
Mumbai, 30 km a week, mostly broken tarmac and standing water for four months of the year. My last pair delaminated at the toe after seven months and the shop said water damage isn't covered. Ceiling is 9,000 rupees and…
Idle curiosity that turned into a search I could not resolve. Salt dissolves in water because water is polar and pulls the ions apart. A liquid metal is a completely different environment, a sea of loose electrons…
Three weeks in and I have installed nineteen plugins, built two dashboards, and written approximately four actual notes. The app is free for personal use and sync is a few dollars a month, so cost isn't the problem the…