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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…
65 percent kit, 68 switches, through hole diodes already populated thankfully. Six hours across two evenings, and nothing went wrong at all. It works, it looks fine, no bridges. But I kept stopping to re read…
First attempt at mead. A kilogram of single flower honey, two and a half litres of bottled water, warmed to about 50 degrees to dissolve the honey, cooled, yeast pitched. Two weeks on there is a substantial layer of…
I have taken in a six month old male who has been used to wandering freely in the countryside. I now live on the second floor of a building with a shared entrance balcony, meaning he could get out whenever a neighbour…
Solo, B2B ish tool, about 40 signups a month from search and one newsletter. I do not do demos and I do not want to start. Right now it is free with a paid upgrade nobody clicks. I am rewriting the whole signup flow…
Replacing a warped cheap skillet, it rocks on my glass hob and oil pools on one side, which makes searing anything a lottery. Budget goes to about $200 if there's a genuine reason, and I'm moving to a gas hob next…
Small B2B tool, 1,400 requests a day, extremely bursty almost all of it between 09:00 and 11:00 on weekdays and then nothing. Cold start is about 1.4s and customers notice it, because the person who opens the app at…
First attempt at rice koji. Soaked overnight, steamed 45 minutes, cooled to about 35C, inoculated with spores, wrapped in a cloth in a cooler with a warm water bottle. Bed temperature has been drifting between 30 and…
I am building an L shaped desk from solid hardwood boards glued into two large tops, roughly 63 by 127 cm and 63 by 152 cm. I move house frequently, so the whole thing needs to come apart into flat pieces and go back…
Six weeks into training, doing push ups on the floor with flat hands. Everything else feels fine but my wrists ache for about a day afterwards, not sharp, more like a dull soreness right at the crease where the hand…
My list is currently built around comfort at every temperature and it is already heavier than I want to carry between stations. I have done two week trips before but never anything long enough for the packing errors to…
Ten minute 1080p piece. My H.264 export is 1.8 GB, the file the client got from their previous editor is about 420 MB and looks the same to me on their monitor. I matched resolution and frame rate. They asked, politely,…
Four birds, all hatched in spring five years ago, all healthy and active, and between them I am getting three or four eggs a week. The feed bill has not changed at all and I have space for six birds maximum in the run.…
Same routine for a year. Moved house and the brewing spot is now about 18C instead of 24C. The tea still goes sour roughly on schedule but no new pellicle has formed across the surface in three consecutive batches, and…
Two kilos, standard paste, sitting at the back of a 4C fridge with everything under the brine and the lid burped every couple of weeks. It is far sourer and fizzier than it was and the cabbage has gone soft, so I have…