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Video course platform, small. About 8TB/month goes out to viewers and growing maybe 15% a month. Total infrastructure budget is $400 and right now egress alone would eat all of it on the setup I have. Currently…
German kitchen knife, sharpened on 1000 and 3000 waterstones. Straight off the stones it pops hairs and slices paper cleanly. After dicing two onions and a butternut squash it will not bite a tomato skin. That is maybe…
Collaborative editor. Expect up to 500 rooms active at once, 2 to 20 people each, WebSockets, and the document state per room is small tens of kilobytes. I keep going back and forth. One DO per room feels like the…
I post a short update every Friday and about six weeks ago I put up a roadmap page with six things on it, in order, with rough months attached. Nine days later a competitor I had never heard of launched with four of…
My father in law left a biscuit tin with about forty packets in it, kept in a dry but unheated shed, so it has gone from freezing to properly warm and back every year. Onion, leek, parsnip, tomato, courgette, brassicas,…
I am at about £1,150 a month all in in a UK city, which is the number I would be replacing. The plan is a rotation of southeast Asia in the winter and southern Europe in the summer, working my normal job the whole time.…
Two cans plus two coffees a day for about three years. Saturdays I get a headache by mid morning, which I have finally connected to not having the first can. Sleep is poor and I want the afternoon habit gone, but I…
Internal knowledge base, 12k documents, pure vector search on pgvector. Answers are right maybe two thirds of the time and the failures are usually "it retrieved something adjacent". I have budget for one of these this…
Solo, budget is $40/month all in including the database. Currently doing about 300k requests a month, of which maybe 240k are cached HTML. ISR on roughly 900 pages that revalidate hourly, and image optimisation on user…
I inherited a working 35mm body with a 50mm lens, so the camera cost me nothing, which is the only reason I am considering this. Local lab is charging about GBP 12 a roll for develop and scan and a roll of colour film…
Two of us, three or four trips a year, mostly damp forested valleys. Budget tops out at $300 and I'd like to stay under about 2.5kg split between us. Our current tent is a cheap double wall where condensation drips off…
I am 17 and school has started putting me in front of olympiad style papers on Saturday mornings. I enjoy them, but they eat the hours I would otherwise spend on the syllabus, and two people have told me university…
Standard clause about company resources in my contract, plus a management profile I cannot inspect. I have been writing the project on it at night because it is the machine I have, and I know that is dumb. What I do not…
Sole earner, mortgage, and four months into something I can no longer pretend is a rough patch. Unpaid leave isn't an option and neither is walking out, so please don't tell me to take three months off. I'm looking for…
Target is 70/30. Good run has pushed it to about 78/22 over roughly fourteen months. I know I'm supposed to rebalance and every month I decide to wait because things are going well, which I recognise is exactly the…
Mine was shooting nearly everything wide open because shallow depth of field looked like what good photos had, and about half my portraits have one sharp eye and a soft everything else. Someone said it out loud at a…
Same crack every time, top corner of a bedroom doorway, running up at about 45 degrees for maybe 20cm. I have filled it twice with lightweight filler, sanded and painted, and it comes back within about four months both…
Two plants, healthy looking, huge leaves, flowering constantly. Every little fruit gets to about 5cm, the blossom end goes soft and yellow, and within two days the whole thing is mush and drops off. I am watering at the…
Saturday evening. Six year old spaniel came in from the garden holding his back left leg up, put it down after a few minutes, and has been limping on and off since: fine walking around the house, obvious limp when he…
I have a trait with an async method, implemented for a struct that holds an . It compiles fine and the tests pass when I await it directly. The moment I call it inside I get a wall of text ending in 'future is not…
Everything I make fits well at the front and does something odd between the shoulder blades that I can only see in photos after I have finished. I have no sewing friends, a mirror on a wardrobe door, and I am not…
Every time I change something I get impatient after two weeks and change it again, which means I have no idea what works. Roughly how long should I hold a routine before judging it, and does it depend on what I changed…
the product came out of consulting work, it's $89/mo, and i've got 30 paying accounts. every one of them gets a 45 minute call from me where i connect their data source and set up the first three workflows, and churn is…
I have been posting weekly updates for about seven months. Four weeks ago I posted the next three things I was building, with rough screenshots of one of them. Two weeks later a much better funded product in the same…
My nephew moves into his own place in September and can currently boil pasta and reheat things. He will have 20 minutes on a weeknight, one decent pan, and no interest in becoming a cook. I want to teach him techniques…