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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…
solo dev, 400 registered users, currently email and password with a sessions table in postgres and an httpOnly cookie. every tutorial and every launch thread pushes an identity provider or oauth, and i keep wondering if…
Flat with a shared entrance, parcels get left in the lobby, and I want to know who picked one up rather than to build a surveillance state. I keep reading that without a plan you get a live view and a notification and…
I have been making a lemon peel infusion for a few years. The flavour is good but it comes out clear, where the commercial products have a distinctive opaque, creamy appearance. I had assumed the cloudiness came from…
120 contacts, four touches over twelve days. Touch one: zero replies. Touch two on day three: one. Touch three on day seven: four. Touch four on day twelve: two, one of which told me never to contact them again. So five…
I went looking for a VPN recommendation and found two sites with almost the same name, near identical layouts, and different lists. One reads like a community wiki and the other reads like a review site. I do not know…
Mid forties, varied diet, no diagnosed deficiencies, though I've also never actually had bloods done. I take a supermarket multivitamin most mornings out of pure habit and I cannot name a single thing it has done for…
I have a job and a small child, so I get roughly 45 minutes after bedtime and maybe two hours on a Saturday. By the time I have opened everything and remembered what I was doing, half of it is gone, and I usually end up…
Hard little green dots that will not wipe off, and they are exclusively on the anubias, the crypts and the java fern next to them are clean. I already cut the photoperiod from eight hours to six a month ago and it made…
Small urban garden, a closed tumbler and a bokashi bucket, foxes on the street and rats in the alley behind. I throw away chicken carcasses and bones most weeks and it feels absurd when I am composting everything else.…
Standing forward fold, hands nowhere near the floor, about mid shin. If I straighten my legs my back rounds heavily from the low back. If I keep the back flat I have to bend the knees a lot. It has been exactly like…
Cleared out about half my wardrobe six weeks ago because most of it didn't fit or I never wore it. Now getting dressed takes twice as long and everything I kept feels slightly off, even things I used to like. I keep…
Third rejection, same guideline. "We were unable to locate a mechanism for users to restore previously purchased content." There is a Restore Purchases button. It is in Settings, under Account. The paywall shows on…
A2, six months in, 30 minutes a day. I can order things and hold a simple conversation, and then a sentence needs dative and I stall and guess. The app I use marks the cases with a colour on the word and never explains…