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Agreed terms with a buyer for a small tool doing about nine hundred a month, forty odd accounts, mostly annual. Nice person, technical, wants to run it themselves. Neither of us has done this before and we are both…
One $12 VPS, Postgres on the same box, a Node app. About 20 jobs a minute: thumbnails, transactional email, a nightly export. No spikes worth the name. Everything I read says use Redis. Redis means another process to…
One customer, 200 a month, has asked for an integration with a system I have never heard of that I would guess is used by maybe a few hundred companies. It is two to three weeks of work. They have implied, politely,…
Side project, 30 req/s at peak, mostly reads, one postgres, one node api, one worker, plus about 40 GB of user uploads sitting in R2. A CX22 is around 4.50 euro a month and I'd run everything on it with compose. Fly…
Springtails were thriving for two months, visible in hundreds every time I lifted a leaf or the cork bark. I added a starter culture of isopods four weeks ago and now I barely see a springtail anywhere. The isopods look…
Wake up to wet backs on the two birds who roost at the far end. Coop is a converted shed, about 6x4 feet, six hens. There are two vents at roost height on the door side and I keep them open all winter. Outside temps…
Five nights in the Cascades in September, forecast is the usual mix of drizzle and one proper rain day. My current double wall tent is 1.6kg and it's the biggest single item in my pack. A tarp and bivy setup gets me to…
Had these grains for about eight months and they were reliable at roughly 24 hours to a thick tangy kefir. Over the past fortnight the grains have got stringy and slippery to handle, and the milk now splits into curds…
New to well water. Test came back 2.1 ppm iron, 14 grains hardness, pH 7.4, no bacteria. Two adults, one bathroom, maybe 150 gallons a day. A local company quoted 3,400 for a softener plus a dedicated iron filter, and…
The agent writes and runs shell commands against a checkout of our repo tests, migrations, the odd script. About 200 runs a day, all triggered by me, no public input anywhere in the path yet. Right now it runs on my…
Same loaf, cut in half, half in a bag on the counter and half in a bag in the fridge, because I was trying to stop it going mouldy in a humid week. Counter half was fine on day three. Fridge half was dry and crumbly by…
Wholesale supplier for our main ingredients sent an email announcing an 18% increase effective in two weeks, citing costs. Our agreement runs to March. I have 400 printed menus and boards priced for the old cost.…
48GB M4 Pro, Ollama, 14B Q4 K M, 8k context. I get a steady 18 tok/s. Everything I read has people casually mentioning 40+ on Apple silicon and I cannot tell whether they are on different hardware, measuring something…
With my eyes I can see craters and the darker patches clearly. My phone shows a featureless white disc every single time, even though the phone camera is genuinely good at everything else. Zooming in just makes a bigger…
I can get to the gym four times a week but I genuinely only have 45 minutes on the floor, plus warm up on the way in. Two years of training, intermediate numbers, main goal is getting stronger on squat bench deadlift…
Packet of crackers, sugars line reads 0.4g per serving, carbohydrate line reads 22g. I assumed carbohydrate and sugar were more or less the same thing so I do not understand where the other 21g is coming from. Same…
Every single time, I get stuck with one person for 25 minutes and then the event is over and I have spoken to nobody else. Last week it was a supplier telling me about his boat. Nice man, no complaints, but I went…
First real project: pandas, matplotlib, and one library whose docs mention needing a compiler. I have 40GB free on the laptop and no strong feelings either way. Every tutorial assumes I have already chosen. What…
I want a camera for the commute, mostly for insurance reasons after a close call last month. I've read that adhesive mounts and drilling both compromise the shell, and I've also read that's overblown. Budget isn't the…
Balcony faces west, gets sun from about 1pm until sunset, and the surface temperature out there was 38C last August. I am growing tomatoes, chillies and a courgette in containers, and I need to buy pots this month.…
Two clients on retainer, roughly 25 hours a week, $6.2k. The product is a smaller version of something I built for one of them, it's been live seven months, and it makes $210 MRR from 14 customers. The gap is so wide…
My pack is sold as 40x25x20cm which is exactly the limit for the airline I fly most, and empty it drops into the sizer fine. Packed it bulges at the front pocket and the top handle, and twice now I've had to squash it…
Web app is working and I use it daily. Two things left on my list before I would call it launchable: team accounts with shared workspaces and invites, or a React Native app so people can log entries away from a desk.…
Two mics into the same recorder. The boom is clean, the lav on the subject has a steady low hum through the entire take, and it gets slightly worse when he turns his head. Same lav worked fine in a different room last…
My idea is a weekly digest of new listings in a niche marketplace. Doing it by hand takes me about 90 minutes a week: search, copy, write short notes, send. I have six subscribers, all people I know. Writing the scraper…