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Small ecommerce, 6k a month in Google Ads running at a bit over 3x return, so it pays for itself but nothing compounds and the moment I stop, revenue stops. The plan was to move half the budget into content and links…
took over a small app from a contractor, ships to maybe 4000 users, and the release doc says run expo publish. that command is gone on the sdk we are upgrading to and i now have to understand the replacement before i…
Same pattern four times this year with running. I get to day nine or eleven, something disrupts it, a cold or a work trip, I miss two days, and then it's just over. Not a slow fade, a cliff. I don't miss it and I don't…
I counted forty automations last night and I could only justify about twelve of them out loud. My partner has started describing the lights as haunted, which is fair, because motion lighting in the kitchen turns off…
I am 47, spend around 30k a year after tax, and have roughly 420k invested with about 60 percent of it sheltered. The appeal of a dividend only approach is never having to sell anything, especially in a bad year. I am…
Trained at a gym for about eight months and could squat and deadlift a barbell reasonably, then moved somewhere with no realistic gym option. I have adjustable dumbbells that top out at 24 kg each, a flat bench and a…
Weighing most things, using an app, hitting roughly 1800 on weekdays. Three weeks and the scale is within half a kilo of where it started. I am not trying to do anything drastic, just slowly lose a bit, and I cannot…
Broken chord accompaniment in the left, melody in the right. Hands separately I can play both cleanly at 92. Hands together at 60 it is fine, at 66 the left hand starts creeping ahead within about four bars, and by the…
Starter is 100 percent hydration, fed 1:5:5, reliably triples in about four hours at 24C and passes the float test. Dough is 500g bread flour, 350g water, 100g starter, 10g salt. Bulk about five hours with four sets of…
Dropped a 210mm gyuto, 61 HRC, and lost about 3mm of the tip at an angle, leaving a small stub instead of a point. The rest of the edge is fine. I have a 220 diamond plate, a 1000 and a 5000. I can either grind the tip…
A cheque and an online transfer both landed in my account on Friday. The balance updated straight away and the app showed the money, then underneath it said the funds wouldn't be available until Tuesday. If the bank…
2,100 registered users, maybe 600 monthly active. Currently on the free tier of a hosted auth provider and about to cross into paid, which lands somewhere around $25/month plus per user beyond the included bucket. I am…
Side project. About 200 jobs a day, mostly outbound webhooks to customers' own endpoints. Every architecture diagram I read has a dead letter queue in it and I cannot tell whether that is for me or for people doing…
Six paying customers, 114 a month in total, tool is 19 a month. One of them emailed asking if I would do 400 for lifetime access. He says he hates subscriptions and would rather pay once and forget it. 400 is more than…
One A5 sketchbook, 120 pages of 160gsm mixed media paper, about 40 pounds for everything including tools. It has to open dead flat so I can draw across the spread. I keep going back and forth between coptic and a long…
I cook most nights and want one 10 inch pan that lives on the hob. Local antique shop has a smooth old skillet, no maker's mark, for £45. New one from a big brand is £30 and I know exactly what I'm getting. I don't want…
about 30 routes, three roles (owner, admin, member), and the permission check is a copy pasted block at the top of each handler. last week i shipped two endpoints without the block and a member deleted another team's…
Delhi, on a two wheeler for 40 minutes each way, so I'm getting real sun on my face and forearms five days a week. Everything I've tried at the pharmacy either leaves me grey in photos or slides into my eyes when I…
Offer is in on a bare 6 acre parcel, nearest municipal line is about two miles away, so it is a drilled well and a septic system or nothing. We have set aside 45k for both and the seller has not done a perc test, which…
Five gallons of supermarket apple juice, no added sugar, one packet of ale yeast, sitting in an unheated garage that has been running about 16C. I took an original gravity reading and then, stupidly, nothing since. The…
Two kilo chuck roast, seared first, into the cooker with an onion, a cup of stock and some carrots, lid on, low for eight hours. It was hot all the way through and completely edible but it sliced rather than pulled, and…
Starting a new repo. Three engineers, maybe 8 packages to begin with, deploying to Node 22 on Lambda. Runtime is Node, that part is settled the question is only what installs the dependencies and runs the scripts. Bun…
I am down to three bags in the 35 to 40 litre range and I have no idea what my torso length is. There is a proper outdoor shop about two hours away and a lot of retailers with free returns, and I have already sent one…
My mother started an app after reading that bilingualism delays dementia by several years, and now treats a fifteen minute streak as medical insurance. I want her to keep going because she enjoys it, but I do not want…
PB is about 1:52, four runs a week with the long one on Sunday. Every previous attempt at adding squats and deadlifts has wrecked my Tuesday legs and I have dropped the lifting inside three weeks each time. I am not…