Sewing a plain t shirt in a mid weight cotton jersey. Every third or fourth stitch on the hem is missing, always on the same side of the twin needle. I have already fitted a new 75/11 ballpoint, rethreaded with the…
Bank export, about 12,000 rows. Amounts came in as text with thousands separators, and SUM ignores the column entirely. Multiplying by 1 gives VALUE errors on some rows. There is also something odd where negatives…
Whole chicken, dry brined overnight uncovered in the fridge, roasted at 190C then cranked to 220C for the last twenty minutes. Meat is perfect at 74C in the thigh. Skin is beige and chewy, especially the underside of…
I work front desk at a clinic and we see Deaf patients regularly. Right now everything happens through writing, which is slow and impersonal. I have about 20 minutes a day and my employer will cover something modest.…
Nine customers. Every one of them needed roughly two hours from me before the thing was useful: mapping their field names, importing a messy spreadsheet, fixing the three rows that break the importer, and a call to…
Internal ops dashboard, 8 widgets, each one hitting its own endpoint. Product wants "live", which in practice means a 5 second refresh. Maybe 30 people have it open during a shift, one of them leaves it open on a wall…
Six weeks in, no paying customers, and about fifteen people who told me they like it. Someone suggested selling ten lifetime licences at $149 to get money and commitment on the table. My per account cost is somewhere…
$1.9k MRR, niche internal tool, 26 accounts. Two of them are 55% of revenue and both have asked, separately and unprompted, whether they could "just take it over". A marketplace valuation puts me around 2.4x annual…
I filled two identical silicone trays, one straight from the cold tap at about 20C and one from the kettle after it had cooled to maybe 70C, and put them on the same freezer shelf about 20cm apart. After 40 minutes the…
I've run the same spreadsheet for six years and it works, but it costs me about 40 minutes a month of manual entry and I'm bored of it. Monarch keeps coming up, core plan around $99 a year with a higher tier at $199. I…
I get the zigzag visual thing for roughly twenty minutes before the pain arrives, three or four times a month. Right now I mostly panic and try to finish whatever I am doing. I would rather use that window well. What…
A cut about a fifth of the team in March and the surviving work got redistributed onto four of us. I went from roughly 22 real hours a week there to something like 38, and B has not got any smaller. Last week I missed a…
Day job plus family means I realistically have about ten hours a week, mostly evenings. I've got an offer to do ongoing work for one client at roughly £45/hour that would eat all ten, or I can keep juggling three…
is clean on my laptop every single time. On CI it fails maybe one run in five, always in the same cache package, always the same two stacks. I have run the package alone locally about fifty times with no hit. I'd rather…
Saw two award seats, transferred 60000 points out of my flexible currency to the airline programme, and by the time the transfer landed about 20 hours later the seats had gone. Points are now stuck in a programme I…
First product I have ever charged for. I keep reading that the free tier should be generous and also that it should be limited and both sound like advice. What I actually want to know is how people decide the number. Do…
Bought a 200 page A5 notebook advertised as 100gsm, and every ink I own spreads into little hairy lines, worst with a medium nib. The same pens on 80gsm printer paper are crisp. I assumed heavier paper meant better…
About $1,100/month across 48 subscriptions, roughly half of them European. Hosting and everything else is $46/month. When I finally read the fee breakdown properly there is a separate conversion line that was bigger…
Diagnosed at 34, and looking back this is my fourth crash rather than my first. The usual burnout advice — take a break, do something you enjoy, see friends — makes it worse, because socialising is one of the things…
Cluster autoscaler adds nodes during our morning ramp and for about 30 60 seconds afterwards we get a burst of resolution failures for in cluster service names, mostly from pods that were just scheduled onto the new…
Solid brick 1905 house. There's a patch about 60cm across on an internal wall, on the side that backs onto the kitchen, that darkens from November and is completely gone by April. No visible plumbing on that wall. Wall…
Someone at work stated flatly that rule of thumb comes from an old law permitting a man to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, and that everyone should stop using the phrase. It gets repeated a lot but…
Insulated the roof with 25mm polyiso cut between the ribs, foil tape on the seams, ply ceiling over the top. Every cold morning there's condensation running down the ribs and pooling on the ledges, and I can see damp…
Every mix I finish sounds balanced on my monitors and then in the car the bass disappears almost entirely and the cymbals are painfully bright. On phone speakers it's tolerable. I've been compensating by boosting bass…
Three minute promo, about 40 minutes of interview and maybe 25 b roll clips. Fourteen hours of actual editing, not counting two rounds of revisions. I quoted a flat 400. Is that normal for a first paid job or am I much…