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Small app, maybe 9k lines, worked fine the day I stopped. Today: install fails, the build tool has had two major versions since, and half the packages have advisories. The rewrite voice is very loud right now. Is it…
Flat is on a busy road, windows shut most of the time, and every flat surface needs wiping twice a week or it looks neglected. I have had a mid size HEPA unit running in the main room for about four months and honestly…
Internal docs, about 40 MDX pages, will grow to maybe 150. Needs client side search across everything, a filterable API reference table, a dark mode toggle, and three or four interactive demos embedded in prose. Astro…
Side project, nights and weekends, and my launch date has now slipped three times: each slip individually reasonable, each one about six weeks. I don't think I'm lazy, I think I have no method for picking a date that…
I have a pre approval from my own credit union in my pocket and a trade in worth maybe a third of the car. Every conversation so far has come back to what I want to pay a month, and every time I ask for one out the door…
Gas hob, two burners, and I want a griddle that spans both without a cold stripe down the middle. Budget is around $70 and it has to live in a cupboard, so I'm not entirely ignoring weight. The only two things it will…
£60 ceiling, home cook, and I break down a lot of squash and whole chickens. My current knife is a supermarket stamped thing that goes blunt within a week and rolled at the tip on a butternut last month. I have a cheap…
Found a wool blazer secondhand and the shoulder seam sits exactly where my shoulder ends, which apparently never happens for me. Problem is the sleeves swallow my hands, about 2 inches too long. There are three working…
Conical dripper, 22g coffee to 360g water, and total brew time is stuck around 1:30 whatever I do. I have gone from a medium grind down to nearly espresso fine and the drawdown barely changed, though the cup did get…
Happens at work socials and one to one both. I ask a question, they answer, I ask another one, and after three or four rounds I can feel it turning into an interview and then it dies. I am not shy exactly, I can start…
Copying a 40GB folder from my desktop to the server over wired gigabit. It starts at about 110MB/s, holds for maybe 20 seconds, then falls off a cliff to 8 to 12MB/s and stays there for the rest of the transfer. Server…
Developer tool, 40 signups so far, essentially no distribution. I have $500 set aside and one free weekend before I go back to contract work. Option A is grinding through a list of 25 launch directories and aggregators.…
I already carry an AeroPress and I am trying to decide whether a dedicated hand grinder earns its weight. Trips are two or three nights, two people, so about six brews. The all in one camping grinders look sturdy but…
Tried the connect then message thing for a month. Hit a wall at roughly 100 invitations in a rolling week, which appears to be the cap. Accept rate was 21%, so about 21 new connections a week, of which maybe 4 replied…
Every off the rack blazer I try in my chest size has the shoulder seam hanging past my actual shoulder point, and the sleeve has a little collapsed dent under it. Going down a size makes the chest too tight to button.…
Setting up a 10 gallon for a betta and a few shrimp, and every filter I look at is rated for 20 to 40 gallons because apparently nothing is made for small tanks any more. Budget about $35 including media. The two things…
I am walking through a list of numbers and stopping when I hit a negative one. The loop body definitely runs, I can see the print, but it exits after the first pass. The loop is and inside I check the value, print it,…
Sewing a plain t shirt in a mid weight cotton jersey. Every third or fourth stitch on the hem is missing, always on the same side of the twin needle. I have already fitted a new 75/11 ballpoint, rethreaded with the…
Bank export, about 12,000 rows. Amounts came in as text with thousands separators, and SUM ignores the column entirely. Multiplying by 1 gives VALUE errors on some rows. There is also something odd where negatives…
Whole chicken, dry brined overnight uncovered in the fridge, roasted at 190C then cranked to 220C for the last twenty minutes. Meat is perfect at 74C in the thigh. Skin is beige and chewy, especially the underside of…
I work front desk at a clinic and we see Deaf patients regularly. Right now everything happens through writing, which is slow and impersonal. I have about 20 minutes a day and my employer will cover something modest.…
Fixed price job, 2400, delivered in three milestones, all three approved in writing at the time. Three weeks after the final approval they opened a dispute claiming the work was never delivered to spec. Most of our…
Getting lotion onto my son at the beach is a two person job and half of it ends up on the towel. The spray goes on in fifteen seconds and everyone is happier, but I keep seeing that sprays give you far less protection…
Realistically five nights a week, 25 minutes each, in bed, and I lose the thread between sessions on anything with more than about four named characters. I have abandoned three 600 page novels this year and finished…
Nine customers. Every one of them needed roughly two hours from me before the thing was useful: mapping their field names, importing a messy spreadsheet, fixing the three rows that break the importer, and a call to…