Ran 12 interviews over three weeks. Every single one said the problem was real, ten of them said $29/month was reasonable, four said they would "definitely" buy it. Put up a preorder page real Stripe checkout,…
Sweet basil in a 30cm terracotta pot on a sunny balcony. I water thoroughly first thing until it runs out the bottom, and by 3pm every day the whole plant is flat and dramatic, then recovers by evening. Compost is a…
I have a and I'm iterating over incoming items, and for each one I want to look at the last element already in the vec to decide whether to merge or push a new one. The compiler tells me I can't borrow as mutable…
High bust 89cm, full bust 99cm, waist matches the size 12 in this pattern company and hips are between 12 and 14. The pattern is drafted for a B cup. I have 2.2 metres of a fabric I cannot buy again, so I get roughly…
22 packages in a pnpm workspace, one Vite app that consumes about 9 of them directly. from a cold dep cache takes 41 seconds to first paint, and during that it prints the "new dependencies optimized" message twice and…
I built a reporting thing for one client, then rebuilt most of it for a second, and a third has now asked for "the thing you did for them". Same core: pull from two systems, reconcile, produce a weekly pack. The…
Solo, roughly six weeks of evenings before I want this in front of real people. Habit tracking app, subscription only, no free tier. Plan A: iOS only, StoreKit 2 direct, no third party in the billing path. Plan B: Expo…
I started conversation practice twice a week in Italian after a year of mostly reading. Since then my vocabulary feels like it has shrunk — words I would have recognised instantly a month ago will not come out, and I…
Small B2B tool, 11 accounts on annual. Raised the annual price from $180 to $240 and emailed everyone 21 days before their renewal date. Four did not renew. Two of the four replied and both said some version of "we…
Pulled about 400 contacts out of a public directory in my niche, wrote one template with a merge field for company name, and ran it over eight days with four follow ups. Two replies, one of them telling me to stop. The…
We're viewing flats next month. He earns roughly double what I do and has quietly covered more than half of everything for a year, which I've never asked about and he's never mentioned. I can afford a 50/50 split on…
Small tool for people who run seed swaps and small nurseries. No list, no followers, no budget. I found a Discord with about 3,000 members where these people genuinely hang out, lurked for two weeks, then posted in what…
I build a dict outside the loop, update two keys on each pass, then append it to a list. At the end every entry in the list is identical and equal to the last row. If I print inside the loop the values are correct on…
Three weeks in and my heart rate spikes every time a message notification comes in, because my first thought is always which one is this and what did I miss. The work itself is fine, both roles are well within what I…
I have an offer for a 12 week paid internship at a research group outside the university, roughly the same money as a semester of TA work, and I have to answer in three weeks. The alternative is the guaranteed fifth…
Two boneless breasts, about an inch and a half thick, bagged with a little oil and salt, held at 145F for four hours because I was out and could not pull them earlier. They were not undercooked at all, but the texture…
Field service app. Two of us, about 40 screens, and technicians work in places with no signal, so edits have to survive being made offline and sync later. Right now everything server shaped lives in TanStack Query and…
New users land on a dashboard that is completely empty until they import something. About half never import. The two options I keep going back and forth on are: seed the account with a realistic sample project so the…
Small tool for internal API docs. Eight paying customers at $19 a month. Two of them, both at companies with a security review process, have asked whether they can run it themselves. One said their infosec team won't…
Every test in the file dies with . The part I cannot get my head around: the const already is above the mock. Moving it further up changes nothing. Vitest 3, TS, alias resolved through the vite tsconfig paths plugin.
Someone at work is giving away an upright from about 1920 that has been in a garage for two years. Alternatively I have 900 saved for a weighted digital. Second floor flat, neighbours on both sides and below, and I will…
Opened a project I abandoned in December. Install fails, a native dependency will not compile, the lockfile references versions that have moved, the CI config points at a runner image that no longer exists, and the…
Five months of weekly revenue and traffic posts. Two weeks ago a near identical landing page appeared, same structure, same angle, name one letter away from mine. There are three now. One of them is buying ads on my…
It sat directly beside a south facing window for two years and looked great. We rearranged the living room and it is now on the other side of the sofa, same room, maybe four feet back and slightly off to the side.…
Down quilt rated 30F, pad is R4.5, sleeping in a base layer and socks. Two trips now where the low was around 40F and I was cold enough at 3am to put my puffy on and still shiver. Straps are on and clipped under the…