60 customers on a $19 monthly plan and 14 on a $190 annual. my stripe view, my spreadsheet and the number i said out loud to a friend last week are three different numbers, and the annual plans are the reason. the cash…
Every few months someone sends me an article about chemical filters absorbing into blood or affecting hormones and I have no idea how to weigh it. I've used the same drugstore sunscreen daily for years and I'd rather…
CAD 800 fitted is my ceiling for a set of four in a common 16 inch size, Ottawa, about 18,000 km a year with a mix of city and a weekly highway run. Last winter I ran a very cheap set that gripped fine on snow and felt…
Trying to decide whether to replace an ageing entry level body or just stop carrying it. The phone shots are, honestly, often better looking straight out of the camera. Better exposure decisions, better handling of a…
Six months of a dull ache along the outside of my right forearm, always worst by Thursday. I use a normal ergonomic ish mouse on a 140 cm desk, roughly level with my elbow, and I've already dropped the chair twice…
I want an application running in a container on my storage server to use the graphics card for hardware transcoding and some machine learning work. The card is installed and the host sees it. Inside the container the…
Coming from a phone, want to learn actual exposure, and the subjects are family, a very fast dog, and city walks. The GBP 500 has to cover everything including a card and a bag, which is the constraint that keeps…
Teaching materials state that English is not a tonal language, on the grounds that pitch changes within a word do not change its meaning, and that English uses pitch patterns to convey attitude instead. That distinction…
Ollama Pro, $20/month, running from the VS Code extension. One agent turn. About three minutes wall clock. One question: compare two versions of the same Markdown spec (24k words and 18k words) and list the differences.…
Inherited a ridged cast iron griddle pan and I clearly do not know how to use it. Everything I have tried comes out grey, stuck to the ridges, and sitting in liquid rather than browning. I can use a normal cast iron…
I bounced off a couple of replacements when the free one I'd used for a decade closed, and went back to pen and paper. That works but it doesn't scale to a household. Coming back to look properly. I want to know whether…
A picture went round my feed this week showing a road that had been built curving around a large tree rather than through it, offered as proof that this sort of thing is possible. It looks plausible and it also looks a…
Upgraded from 14.2.15 to 15.x over a weekend. No code changes to the route, no errors, build passed, lighthouse fine. Six days later the upstream vendor emails me because I went from about 5,760 calls a day to 96,000.…
The announcement on 30 July cut API prices on the GPT 5.6 line: Luna by roughly 80%, to about $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output, and Terra by around 20%, to about $2 and $12. Sol's standard…
I've built a streak I'm genuinely proud of, I can read a menu and mostly follow subtitles, and then a waiter asked me something unscripted and my brain went completely blank. I have about 30 minutes a day and roughly…
Long refactoring session, one conversation, big monorepo. First hour is excellent. Somewhere around the point where the context indicator says 60 70k it starts: reintroducing a bug we fixed 40 minutes earlier referring…
Set GPT 5.6 Sol as my default in settings a few days ago. Every new chat still comes back in about two seconds with the shape of answer I used to get from 5.5, and the label on the reply says 5.5 Instant, not Sol.…
Launch email went out this morning. I had 2,400 confirmed addresses in a table and a script that basically did . Roughly the first 600 went out, then everything after that came back and the script exited. So now some…
Solo, $9/mo tool that cleans up messy CSVs. Two weeks ago I added a small agent loop: model calls a tool, tool returns the failing rows, model tries again. No cap on attempts, because in testing it always converged in…
catalog.update.microsoft.com loads fine. Search works, results render, everything looks normal. The moment I click Download, the popup either comes up completely blank or shows: The website has encountered a problem…
Support queue filling up with "cannot sign in with Apple". Two person team, no dedicated ops, and I want to know whose problem this is before I start changing things in production. Context: everything else in the app is…
Budget is about $1,800 for a queen, side and stomach sleeper, roughly 70 kg, currently on a five year old all foam bed that I am done with I wake up feeling like I have to climb out of a hole and my shoulder aches.…
Follow on from the routing thread. Now that I know how to keep new chats on Sol, I am not sure I want to. Roughly half my usage is "reformat this", "what is the flag for X", "summarise this paragraph". Instant answers…
Spent this morning on this, so here it is in one place for whoever searches the error string next. Symptom: Sign in with Apple, working fine for months, starts failing at the token exchange with {"error": "invalid…
Account is on the newer credit based AWS free plan, the one that replaced the old twelve month free tier for accounts created from 15 July 2025. $100 in credits on signup, a bit more from the onboarding activities, and…