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Solo dev. Twelve services split across two boxes, one compose file each, plus a pile of shell scripts for deploys and a failover procedure I have written down and never actually tested. Kubernetes is obviously out of…
A few years ago a neighbour let a weed grow beside their house. Within a year it was as tall as the building, and it has now developed proper bark and a solid trunk. It stands about three metres from my fence. It sends…
Bare panel van, medium wheelbase high roof, bought in March, and I am at the point where the next step is irreversible. I have read the build blogs but those are all written by people who are pleased with themselves. I…
Monorepo, 11 packages, about 180k lines of TypeScript. takes 4m12s on a cold cache and it is now the longest thing in the pipeline. Format check is another 40s on top. Biome is obviously fast. My hesitation is rule…
Nine hours a day at a desk, 34, no diagnosed back problem, just a low ache that arrives mid afternoon. Current chair is a $280 mesh thing from a big box store, three years old, and the foam under the seat has gone flat…
I turn 18 in November and want to go in September with my own money, about €900 for everything on the ground. My parents are fine with it and will sign whatever needs signing. What I can't work out is what will actually…
Currently postgres 17 in compose next to the app, data on a mounted volume, to R2 nightly from a cron container. 8 GB and growing maybe 400 MB a month. Two person team, no ops person, we ship a lot. Someone on the team…
41 paying accounts, $340 MRR, no growth for about a year. Last month I put 4.5 hours into it: two support emails, one database version nag, and one broken CSV import from a customer whose own system exports something…
My eight year old asked what the nap in kidnap means and I had absolutely nothing. It clearly isn't sleeping. Then she asked whether napkin is the same nap, which felt like a reasonable guess and I suspect is a…
Cooked a 1 inch ribeye at 133F for two hours, dried it, then seared in cast iron with oil for about two minutes a side to get a crust I was happy with. Cut into it and there is a 4mm grey ring all the way around, which…
Coming from express, so I expected to see POST /api/something. Devtools shows POST /dashboard with a header, and the response body is a stream of numbered lines rather than JSON. Nothing in my code mentions /dashboard…
After months of use, the metal mesh in my press filter has fine coffee particles wedged between the fibres. Brushing both sides does not shift them. I tried soaking in dilute vinegar, following advice for cleaning metal…
Budgeted 42k, spent just over 50k in year one with no big one off purchases, no move, no new car. Categories all look slightly higher rather than one obviously blowing out. I tracked everything the same way I did while…
Light roast washed Ethiopian that makes a lovely floral V60. Cold brewed it at 1 to 8 in the fridge for eighteen hours, coarse grind, filtered through paper, then diluted one to one. It came out flat, slightly papery…
Every case binding, the pasted down endpaper goes on flat and then within ten minutes there are ripples running parallel to the spine that never fully press out. 100gsm coloured paper, PVA straight from the bottle,…
Made my first toile for a simple button front shirt in cheap calico. Drag lines from the bust to the armpit, gaping at the neckline, and the shoulder seam sits about 2cm behind where my shoulder actually is. I measured…
South facing kitchen window, currently a standard casement, and the quote to swap it for a garden window with the little shelves came back at more than I expected once installation was in. All I actually want is basil…
Left after work drinks at half seven having genuinely enjoyed it, and then sat in the car for ten minutes unable to face driving. Needed about two hours of silence at home before I felt like myself. This is not anxiety…
I've done it twice now. Both machines sit open in front of me, both use the same headset via a USB switch, and in a hurry I hit unmute on the wrong window and start talking into the wrong meeting. Nothing sensitive got…
Same suburban loop four times a week, half of it under mature trees and one section between two blocks of flats. The watch has read anywhere from 5.18 to 5.42km on that loop this month and my paces look better than they…
First multi tenant thing I have built. Every row has an and every query filters on it. The convenient thing is to put in the token so the server does not look up membership on every request. Half of what I read says…
Bike or train five days a week, 16" laptop plus lunch plus a spare shirt. Budget $120 200. My current bag holds everything and makes me look like I'm about to abseil into the office. I've ruled out the ultra minimal…
Every time I think about it I feel tired rather than excited, which is new. The remaining work is not hard, it is just unglamorous: billing edge cases, password reset, an admin screen, the empty states, and the thing…
Fourteen nights, roughly 1800 dollars including internal transport but not the flight in. My instinct is four cities because I might never come back, but a friend who travels a lot says I'll spend the whole trip in…
Six long haul flights a year in economy, aisle seat, and I have never managed more than twenty minutes because my head falls forward and jerks me awake. I own a memory foam horseshoe that does nothing and an inflatable…