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Empty LWB van arriving in three weeks, both of us work full time, so this is weekends and the odd evening. Every build video jumps from bare metal to a finished interior with a soundtrack, and I cannot work out what…
Ordered on a Tuesday, delivered the following Monday, and the box had been somewhere cold over the weekend by the look of it. Soil is soaking wet, four of the nine leaves are yellow and limp, and the rest look alright.…
Eighteen months in: two full time remote roles and nine credits a semester. I'm sleeping about five hours, my grades have gone from A to B minus, and the second job is the one paying tuition so dropping it defeats the…
Four hundred days, thirty minutes most evenings, and standing at an actual counter last month I produced nothing. The words were in there, I just could not get them out in the two seconds available. I have about £25 a…
40 paying customers on a flat $29/mo, invoicing tool with document generation. Everyone tells me usage based is where the money is, and the cost side does vary a lot one customer generated 4,100 documents last month and…
Started running in January, up to 20 km a week, and the outside of my right knee started aching around week six. I run in old cross trainers that had already done maybe 600 km of gym work before I ever ran in them. Half…
Every update goes to four places: X, LinkedIn, a Discord I am part of, and a monthly email. Rewriting for each takes me between 90 minutes and two hours, and that is the same slot I would otherwise use to build. A…
22 active subscriptions at $19, all from the first year. New price will be $39 and I am confident about it for new customers. What I cannot decide is the existing cohort. Grandfather them permanently, grandfather with…
Every recipe assumes a 21C kitchen and mine is a 15C basement, which is the only place I have room for jars. I am running pint jars at two percent salt, one of shredded cabbage and one of carrot sticks with garlic. I…
Internal service, about 30 endpoints, Postgres behind it, moderate traffic where p99 matters a little but nowhere near microsecond territory. Both of us are Python people, one of us has written a couple of small Go…
Downtown, garage parking, maybe 8,000 km a year and almost all of it inside the city where the roads get cleared quickly. Two or three times a winter I drive north to visit family and that trip is a different world.…
Burned once already: an app moved features I relied on behind a paid tier, my free account went effectively read only, and the export was technically available and practically useless. I've got about 4,000 notes going…
Working through for a homework set. The first round of parts leaves me with , and the second round hands me back the exact integral I started with. I have done it four times and I keep going in a circle. Is my choice of…
Inherited a service with no tests. Asked for coverage, got 40 Vitest files, 380 tests, all green, 84% coverage. Felt great for about a day. Then I deliberately broke a validation rule: changed a to a in the middle of…
$4.1k MRR, profitable, five years old. Signed an LOI at 3.1x annual profit, roughly $150k. Two weeks into diligence the buyer connected to Stripe and worked out that a single account is $2,550 of it 62%. Month to month,…
Flat $12 per seat. One account has 8 seats, which is $96/month, and last month they ran 41,000 tasks. My variable cost is about $0.01 a task, so that account cost me $410 and paid me $96. Meanwhile the median account…
Six node pool, all the same instance type at 4 vCPU. Deployment has ten replicas, nine are Running and one has been Pending since last night. Events say 0/6 nodes are available with a string of reasons I have read…
Six forms, the biggest has nine fields. I keep starting react hook form + a resolver, then remembering the action has to validate anyway, then wondering why I'm writing it twice. Two weeks until I need this in front of…
Eleven speed road groupset, about 6000km on the chain. Shifting is crisp everywhere except the 11 and 12 tooth cogs, where it jumps forward under pressure. Fine when spinning lightly, skips when I stand up. New cable…
Skillet is a modern one, about a year old. I've built up seasoning with thin oil coats in the oven at 230C, maybe eight rounds total. Looks great, then I sear a steak at high heat and afterwards there are black flakes…
Client has booked 9am to 1pm, one background, one room, and retouching is billed separately afterwards. I have done individual sessions but never a queue of twelve, and I do not want to be the reason their morning…
I want the vault format to be something I can inspect and export, my partner wants it to work on an iPhone without her having to think about it once. Budget is up to about USD 40 a year for both of us and we need a…
I sent chapter three (about 40 pages, methods heavy) on 12 March. Two follow up emails, plus one in person ask after a seminar where he said it was on his list. Nothing since. My committee meeting is booked for…
Our step reports a cache hit and restores in about 8 seconds, but the right after it still takes 2m40s and clearly unpacks everything again. The lockfile hasn't changed between the two runs I compared. Node 20, npm 10,…
I looked up a slang term I've heard my whole life and the dictionary gave a first citation in the 1920s, which is clearly much later than it must have existed. Then I noticed the same gap on several other entries. Is…