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…
US, conventional loan, about $291,000 left at 6.1% with 26 years to run, and a $40,000 windfall I do not need for anything else. I would rather keep the 26 year term and lower the payment than shorten the term, because…
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…
Twenty gallon low tech, set up 22 days ago, inert gravel with root tabs and a cheap clip light on eight hours. Everything is covered in a soft brown film, glass, plant leaves, even the heater cable. It wipes off with a…
Three different hotels in a row, same pattern. The call runs fine for eight to twelve minutes, then video freezes and audio robots out for thirty seconds, then it recovers. Speed tests look fine, 40 down, so it is not…
Two sweaters, different brands, both around 70% merino. Both developed dense pilling under the arms and along the sides where my bag strap sits, within about four wears. Rest of the sweater is smooth. I hand wash cold…
Sewing a lined jacket in a mid weight twill. I pin every 5cm and match the notches, but by the end of a 60cm side seam the upper layer has travelled forward and I am left with a 2cm overhang. It happens on both sides…
Moved it from beside a south window to the other side of the same room, about two metres further in, because the leaves were getting scorched in the afternoon. That was six weeks ago. Since then it has dropped one lower…
I work in an office with a north facing window and I commute in the dark half the year. I've been buying a GBP 22 sunscreen out of guilt and using maybe a third of the bottle before it expires. I'm trying to work out…
Redesign job. Every time I ask what they want the answer is a version of we will know when we see it, and the examples they send contradict each other. Budget is real, around 5k, and they are pleasant people. Fixed…
The app is useless until you connect a data source, which takes an api key and about two minutes. Session recordings show people landing on an empty dashboard, clicking three things, and closing the tab. Median session…
Writing this up because it was entirely preventable and I want to know how other people structure against it. One dashboard query was slow. Someone swapped the client in for one built with the service role key because…
Postgres 16, about 120k rows in the child table. The call is . pg stat statements shows four separate statements, and the slow one is a select on items with an list of 50 ids doing a sequential scan. The equivalent…
Replacing a bed that lasted six years before it developed a visible dip, and the showroom experience has convinced me of nothing — everything feels fine for four minutes. I can spend $3,000 without pain but I would…
Overhead fluorescents plus a window behind my monitor, and by mid afternoon three or four days a week I am in trouble. I have a supportive manager and an HR process that wants specifics rather than 'the lights are bad'.…
Document question answering over long PDFs. A typical document is 200 pages, roughly 120k tokens. About 400 questions a day across all users, and users tend to ask several questions about the same document in one…
I commute by bike and take a couple of walking holidays a year, and that is the extent of the action. Budget is around USD 350 and I already carry a phone that shoots perfectly good video when I am standing still. The…
180 pages of 120gsm, sewn on three tapes. It opens to about 90 degrees and then the text block springs shut, and if I push it flat there's an audible crack from the middle of the spine. Straight PVA on the spine, dried…
First long solo trip and the only affordable flight gets in just before midnight. The hostel is about 35 minutes out and the reviews mention the street being quiet at night. I've read enough about airport taxi scams to…