Six weeks in, coming from ten years of Python and some C. I can write code that works but I spend maybe half my time restructuring things to make the compiler happy, and I never predict in advance which design will be…
Split board, three layers. The nav layer is on a hold of the key that types semicolon on tap. Other two layers are on dedicated thumb keys and they never fail. When I type quickly, roughly one time in five I get a…
Three pairs of wool trousers from charity shops, all needing the waist taken in about 4cm and the length shortened. A local tailor quoted 45 pounds a pair. I own a machine, I can sew a straight seam, and I have maybe…
US, buying at around $420,000 with 20% down, and the 15 year quote is meaningfully below the 30 year rate but the payment is roughly $700 a month higher. Two incomes now, but we would like one of us to go part time in…
Bought a sit stand desk specifically because of low back ache from sitting. I stand about four hours a day now, spread across the day. Three weeks in the ache is worse, and it is now a specific band across the low back…
Currently using a 20 litre backpack and arriving with a completely soaked back, which is fine in December and grim in July. Panniers mean buying a rack and bags for something like 150, and my building has no lift so I'd…
Nine nights total, three cities roughly two hours apart by train, first proper trip with my partner who gets tired of packing quickly. Option one is three nights in each. Option two is picking two bases and doing the…
Running 40km a week, first half marathon in about four months, and I have 150 to spend on shoes for the whole build. Option one is a single well reviewed daily trainer at around 130. Option two is a clearance daily…
Fluent enough in C and G to read simple pieces at tempo. Put three or four flats in front of me and I stop dead, and I can feel myself spelling out each note by name and then translating it to a key. I have been reading…
I get the lightning bolt in the corner every time the drive spins up, and returns 0x50005. The drive is a 2.5 inch spinning laptop disk in a plastic USB3 enclosure, bus powered, and it is the only thing attached apart…
18V platform, two packs, both bought at the same time as the drill. They live in an unheated garage, they go back on the charger the moment they come off the drill, and the jobs are light, mostly flatpack and the odd…
I timed myself: median answer time is about 4 seconds. Two hundred and fifty reviews should be twenty minutes of actual thinking. Instead I am at the desk for an hour and a half and I finish irritated. I am not…
Loose curls, medium density. In the shower and for maybe ten minutes after, they are perfect — defined clumps, no frizz. By the time they are dry it is a halo of fuzz and the clumps have separated. I am using a leave…
My electricity bill has gone up enough that I want to do something about it, and my dad is adamant that leaving chargers plugged in is quietly costing me a fortune. I have about twelve things on standby around the flat:…
Small salon, three chairs, monthly revenue around 22k and fairly steady. I am working about 55 hours a week and doing all the admin after close. Options as I see them: hire a second part timer at roughly 1400 a month to…
The 95 dollar fee hits next month and my travel has dropped to about one trip a year since changing jobs. The card earns well on dining, which I do use, and it has a travel credit I have not touched in 18 months. It was…
Inherited a report that is one flat 12 million row table with 60 columns, refreshing in about 25 minutes. I want to break it into a star, but that is a week of work and the business is happy with the numbers today.…
Commuter, 10 speed, about 120km a week in all weather. Checker reads 0.5. A chain here is about $30, a chain and cassette together about $95. Money is tight this month but so is my time for roadside repairs. What do…
Started selling a digital template a year ago, mostly passive now, about £400 a month gross through a payment platform. Full time employed otherwise. I have kept every payout email but no real records. I'm now nervous…
Flat sharing, one small sink, no space to store a soaking tub, and about 60 to spend on my first proper setup. Everything I have is soft ish stainless, five knives, sharpened maybe once a month. Diamond plate seems like…
Eleven hours difference, so their 9am is my 9pm. Three calls a week, plus they message during their afternoon which is the middle of my night. Six weeks in and I am sleeping badly and doing my best work at 2am because…
120ml gaiwan, 6g of a mid grade shou puerh, flash rinse and short steeps. Infusions one to three are great, four is thin, five is water. Everyone talks about ten plus infusions. Am I over extracting early, using too…
Same brand of soap, same sponge, same technique I have used for years. In the new place every glass comes out of the rack with a cloudy film that wipes off with a finger but comes back next wash. Plates and cutlery seem…
Since January my stipend has arrived between the 12th and the 18th instead of the 1st. Payroll says the grant office releases the funds late; the grant office says payroll processes late. My rent is due on the 3rd and I…
We run a full staging stack that mirrors prod's services and I can't remember the last time it caught anything real. Everything that breaks breaks in production, usually on data shapes we don't have in staging. Six…