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…
I spend about five hours a week turning scrappy lecture notes into a clean, linked, colour coded second set. It feels productive, the finished pages are lovely, and my exam results have not moved in two years. I keep…
Nothing in the routine changed, but since about the middle of October I have been tight and flaky by lunchtime with small closed bumps along my jaw that were never there before. Same cleanser, same moisturiser, same…
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…
Six years managing this place, and the owner wants to retire and sell to me at roughly 2.2 times owner earnings including all the equipment. I have £70k and the lease has four years left on it. The alternative is an…
Managed cluster, three nodes of 4 vCPU and 16 GB, and I am trying to size the next pool honestly rather than by guessing. Between what the provider reserves and the DaemonSets we run for logging, metrics and CSI, a…
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…
Spare room, hardwood, one bookcase, no curtains yet, and a dog who barks at the postman roughly during every recording I have ever attempted. Budget is USD 150 for the mic and I have an interface already with what I…
Two developers, one strong on Android and one who can find their way around Swift. Four months of runway to get something in front of paying users on both platforms. The app is not exotic: auth, a list of records, a…
I can measure how long a new account takes to reach the thing the product is actually for (median about 26 minutes), and I can measure the gap between someone's first and second session. I do not have the volume to…
Six kitchen knives, two of which I actually use, nothing exotic. Locally I can pay per knife at a cutlery shop, post them to a mail in service and pay postage both ways, or use the hardware place round the corner that…
The ads follow me everywhere now — bands that go round your head, something you strap to your upper arm, cooling wraps at every price point. I get about four attacks a month and I'd happily spend real money on something…
Flat with no outdoor drying space and a vented dryer that turns the kitchen into a sauna. Four loads a week, two adults, and the heat pump models are roughly double the price of a condenser where I am. The cycle times…
700g of diced braising steak, straight from the freezer into the pot with hot stock, nine hours on low. It tasted normal and nobody was ill, but I want to know whether I got away with something or whether it is…
I have the boards, three 5V supplies and a couple of cards, and no budget to buy a Pi 5 just to have something to do. I would like something actually useful rather than a demo I look at twice, and it needs to sit on a…
Built it to 2000 three separate times over two years. Gone on two new tyres, a flight for a family thing, and a laptop when mine died. All of those were real and I do not regret any of them, but I am now two years in…
Two kilos of cabbage at 2 percent salt, glass weight, jar with a loose lid, sitting at about 21C. Day five there is a thin white film across the whole surface of the brine, flat and slightly wrinkled, no fuzz that I can…
Rolling update in Kubernetes, new replicas go Ready quickly, but for roughly 40 seconds after the rollout reports complete we still see responses from the old version, confirmed by a version header we stamp on every…
Trail runners half a size up, thin merino liner plus a cushioned sock, changed at lunch. Day one is fine. Day two both heels have hot spots by mid morning and blisters by camp. 15 18km days with about 12kg. I have tried…
Converting a single tenant app to multi tenant. 40 tables, 3 developers, a customer who wants it in Q3. Only our Node server talks to Postgres no browser client, no mobile app hitting the database directly. Given that,…
Two of us, new B2B app, Workers in front of Postgres. Neither of us has strong feelings, we both know Prisma from previous jobs and neither has shipped drizzle. Deciding now so we do not rewrite the data layer in three…
Water pressure is fine, no staining, and the previous owners left a folder with the original driller's log and nothing since. I have never lived on a well and I would rather set money aside now than find out on a…
I know the reuse argument and I know I am the weak link with my four variations on one password. But the idea of one file holding my bank, my email and my work accounts makes my stomach drop, especially since one of the…
Switched brands on the recommendation of a friend, bought the big bag because it was on offer, and she ate two mouthfuls and walked away. That was a week ago and she has not touched it since. The bag is open, obviously,…
A friend claims there are whole classes of question science is structurally unable to touch, and I claim almost every example is something we simply have not got to. Neither of us can produce a test that settles it.…