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May became June because onboarding was rough, June became July because of a billing edge case that affects maybe one customer in fifty, and now I am eyeing August because I do not like the logo. There are 300 people on…
The kick sounds good alone, the bass sounds good alone, together the low end turns into mush that pumps. I've tried carving 60 80Hz out of the bass, then tried carving it out of the kick instead, and both versions sound…
The pattern instructions go step by step and I follow them, and by step six the garment is a tube and any fitting problem is now trapped inside four finished seams. This has happened on a dress and twice on a shirt. Is…
Bootstrapped, $4.7k MRR, personal savings cover roughly 11 more months. Monthly only right now at $39. I keep going back and forth on offering annual at 20% off ($374/yr). Arguments I have made to myself in both…
public signup and a password reset endpoint on a worker, both currently unprotected, and someone spent last tuesday evening hammering the reset one. i want something that stops abuse without me writing an accounting…
One off purchase, $39, with a no questions asked refund policy because that felt like the decent thing to do. Two refunds so far. Both people had generated and downloaded their complete export within an hour of paying,…
No audience, no list, no budget. What I do have is nine years of doing the thing my tool does, so I can answer most questions in my niche properly. Every time I go to post I freeze, because the communities where those…
Two years of a five box paper system for medical terminology, about 900 cards, and it works. Everyone tells me to move to an app for the scheduling. The boxes already space things out, and the app adds a phone in my…
Charity shop wool blazer, took 3cm total out of each side seam from underarm to hem to lose the boxiness. It looks much better standing still and now I can barely reach forward, the armholes feel a size smaller. I…
Pulling 80kg for sets of 5 and my hands are the limiting factor by a mile. Last set the bar rolls out of my fingers on rep 3 and my back and legs feel like they had another two in them. I have small hands and the bar in…
Closing on a 1940s house next month and the settlement sheet has a mandatory lender's title policy plus an optional owner's policy for a few hundred more. The property has changed hands twice in the last ten years and…
I can get an edge off my stones that slices printer paper cleanly and shaves the hair off my forearm, and then it struggles with a tomato three days later. Clearly whatever I am testing is not what the kitchen is…
60k lines of TypeScript, five years old, and we want to move from a hand rolled DI container to plain constructor injection. Touches roughly 180 files. Nothing about it is hard, it's just enormous and boring: exactly…
Six weeks in, two small jobs done, both left five star reviews, and since then my proposals go nowhere. Everything I read says reviews are the unlock and I have reviews, just not enough of them to sit next to people…
First app I have ever submitted. It is a local only calculator for a niche trade no accounts, no server, no network calls at all. I left the demo account fields empty and wrote "no account required" in the notes.…
I have been drinking the same roasted oolong for two months, 5g in a 120ml gaiwan, water just off the boil, short steeps. I moved flat and bought a new kettle at the same time, and now it tastes thin and slightly…
First January with the cafe open. December was excellent, and takings for the first three weeks of January are running about 40% below the December average and roughly 25% below October. Same hours, same menu, no…
Been doing pull ups three days a week, 4 sets to failure each session, which is basically 4, 3, 2, 2. Hasn't moved since March. Bodyweight is stable, I sleep fine, and I'm not sore the next day. Everything I read says…
About 40 square metres, full time job, and year one was neat rows which by August looked like a list of chores I was failing. I am tempted to redo it as a mixed planting with perennial herbs and flowers through it, but…
Put out a tray of lettuce, chard and kale seedlings ten days ago, all hardened off over a week of increasing outdoor time. They have not died and they have not grown. A few outer leaves went pale and papery. The kale…
2016 hatchback, 96000km, private seller, second owner. Interior is genuinely clean, service book has stamps up to 2023 then nothing. Three different tyre brands on four wheels, and the oil is so clean it looks like it…
That is around 190 a year for a plan that covers an exam, some allowance toward frames and a discount on lenses. My prescription is stable, I wear glasses only, no contacts, and I have been buying frames online for well…
Internal API, about 40 endpoints, two of us. I want runtime validation at the boundary and types that cannot drift from it. There is an OpenAPI document generated from the handlers today but nobody fully trusts it.…
Backend engineer, eight years in, references are strong and I get interviews. I have reached two final rounds and lost both, and beyond that I get screens that go nowhere in particular. Nothing about the process feels…
Four sessions a week indoors from November, aluminium frame with a carbon fork, bike bolted into a direct drive trainer in a spare room with no fan. Everything looks fine while I am riding and then in spring I find…