A2, six months in, 30 minutes a day. I can order things and hold a simple conversation, and then a sentence needs dative and I stall and guess. The app I use marks the cases with a colour on the word and never explains…
About ten calls a week from a spare room with a hard floor, currently using the mic inside a mid range webcam sitting on top of the monitor. Nobody has complained, and I also sound noticeably worse than the two…
Savings cover roughly four months. Three people use the tool daily and two of them have asked, unprompted, what it's going to cost. That feels like a signal, but the product is genuinely half finished no export, no team…
One time purchases, $34 each. Three disputes in the same month, all coded as unrecognised or unauthorised, and all three from people I am fairly sure genuinely bought it. The email from my processor was polite but…
I can play a handful of intermediate pieces from memory, I practise most days, and I have not felt myself improve since about month fourteen. Sight reading is bad, my technique feels like something I invented, and I…
Two months into my first React job. The codebase I inherited fetches in everywhere and I am moving it to TanStack Query one screen at a time. My instinct was to give each screen one key , because then invalidation is…
Self serve tiers on the site are $12 and $29. One company signed for $400 a month after two calls, mostly because they wanted a shared workspace and someone to answer the phone. Now I do not know what to put on the…
I opened a training session with it last month and afterwards someone asked me where it's from, which I could not answer. Half an hour of searching gets me a thousand posters and not one citation with a page number in…
Every policy currently does: That adds 6 9ms per query and a dashboard page runs 11 queries, so it is roughly 80ms of pure policy overhead on a page that should be 150ms. 200 organisations, average 8 members. The…
I can do roughly four tailored applications an evening or about twenty untailored ones, and after two months of the tailored approach I have three screens from ninety applications. Data analyst roles, four years of…
I do a specific data cleanup and reporting setup for small ecommerce businesses. It is a three day job that I have done nineteen times, and about 70% of it is now scripts I wrote for myself. I charge $3,800 and clients…
I put about 2k a month on cards, fly economy twice a year on dates that are fixed by school holidays, and I genuinely will not phone an airline to hunt for seats. I currently hold one travel card whose fee renews next…
41, sixteen years in, and the pension formula gets me to something like sixty percent at 25 years with a partial cost of living adjustment. Spouse works part time with no employer cover of her own. What I cannot get a…
One cat, third floor walk up, and hauling 12 kg of clay up the stairs every fortnight is the actual problem I am trying to solve. Tofu pellets are about twice the price per bag here but the bags are much lighter, so I…
Side project, last commit in November. Went to run it this weekend and the install fails outright. The Node version the project expects is past its support window, two dependencies have deprecation warnings that are now…
Winters went on in November, the shake started in January. It only happens when the car has sat outside overnight, it is worst around 100 kilometres an hour, and by the time I am ten minutes into the commute it has…
Rented flat with downstairs neighbours, landlord will not have a rack in the spare room, and the nearest gym is forty minutes each way. I have a doorway pull up bar, a set of loop bands and two 12kg dumbbells. I am…
Took my entire annual leave in one block, went somewhere nice, slept a lot, and came back feeling exactly the same: flat, cynical about work I used to actually like, and dreading Monday from roughly Saturday lunchtime.…
Employer is a mid size fintech, about 600 people. My contract assigns inventions "relating to the company's field of business" with no time or equipment qualifier. My side project is a habit tracker with 60 paying…
Bought a four year old estate, financed about 80% over five years, and the dealer pushed gap cover as an add on at signing. My understanding is that it only pays if the car is written off and I owe more than the insurer…
Canada, first purchase, pre approved directly with my own bank at a rate I suspect is mediocre because I did not negotiate and they know I have been with them since I was nineteen. A broker has offered to shop it and…
Running about a dozen containers behind a reverse proxy. After every host reboot, eleven of them come up fine and one returns 502 until I manually restart that container, after which it works for weeks. The container…
Singapore, oily and mildly acne prone, and every sunscreen I've tried is either a white cast or a grease film within three hours. I've ruled out the heavy mineral formulas already because they pill under everything I…
returns . returns . returns an . Today that is three overloads and an implementation signature that is frankly a lie held together with . Someone on the team wants to replace it with a conditional return type driven by…
Consumer inserts an invoice row, then emails a receipt. The payment provider redelivered once which is their documented behaviour and entirely my problem to handle my insert hit the unique constraint, the handler threw,…
