Contract is $95/hour, roughly 25 hours a week, no benefits, and the current statement of work ends in five months with a vague promise of renewal. Salaried role is $138k with health insurance that covers my partner, and…
Garden is about five metres by five, mostly paved, and we produce maybe four litres of kitchen scraps a week plus a bit of garden waste. Neighbours are close on two sides so I'm wary of anything that smells or attracts…
Started 20 minutes most mornings about five weeks ago, from a very stiff baseline — sitting cross legged is uncomfortable and my hands reach my knees in a forward fold. I feel looser during the session and completely…
Lost a hen to what I'm fairly sure was a fox that dug under the run fence. Garden is about 8 metres square so the run is small and close to the house. I can afford one of these properly: either skirting the entire run…
Ten gallon on a shelf, inert pea gravel that I am not tearing out, and about 20 dollars a month to spend on this hobby total. Planting is mostly crypts and a couple of swords with some floaters. Everyone online says use…
Four endpoints, one Postgres query, no fancy dependencies as far as I know. gives me 14MB, which surprised me because everyone talks about Go producing small self contained binaries. Coming from Python where the file is…
Three week section, five resupply points, two of which are small towns with one shop each. Budget matters — I have about 220 for food for the whole trip. I have a dietary thing that makes some shop food unreliable but…
First darn, on the elbow of a lambswool cardigan. It looks reasonable but the patch feels noticeably firmer than the fabric around it and I'm slightly worried I've done it wrong. Does a mend soften with wear and…
Every big system update it sits there saying it is optimising, counts up through a few hundred apps, and takes fifteen or twenty minutes. Then the battery drains noticeably faster for a day. I have read that you should…
Building an 18x18x36 for a tree dwelling species. LECA for that footprint is about 30 here and I would need two bags, egg crate and screen would be maybe 12 and some cutting. I have read that weight matters in tall…
Roots are coming out of the drainage holes and circling on top of the soil, and the pot dries out in about two days when it used to take a week. It is in a north window with no grow light, so light is at its worst for…
Day nine, wholemeal and water, feeding once a day. It bubbles enthusiastically about eight hours after feeding, smelled strongly of acetone for the first few days and now smells more like yoghurt. Everyone says two…
I have about 40 minutes free most weeknights and a small fridge. Last time I prepped five identical containers on a Sunday I could not face the fourth one and ordered takeaway twice, which defeated the point. Cooking…
Two bedroom upstairs flat in a 1930s conversion. Rubber sheathed wiring on the lighting circuits which an electrician says is original and perished at the ends. Sockets were redone at some point in what looks like the…
Two minor versions behind on a managed cluster, about 40 nodes, roughly 200 deployments plus three StatefulSets with attached block storage. We have a four hour maintenance window on a Sunday and a small team. In place…
Flat has fourteen of those glass dome fixtures where the bulb is fully enclosed. I've replaced four cheap LEDs in eighteen months, which is not what the box promised. The nicer bulbs are about four times the price and…
Four months freelancing. I send about ten proposals a month, get two replies, and land one job. No feedback on the other eight, not even a no. It is impossible to tell whether my rate is wrong, my proposals are bad, or…
Customer dimension, about 40 million rows, sourced from three systems with imperfect keys. A full rebuild takes 25 minutes and is dead simple. A merge takes 3 minutes but I am nervous about drift and about the key…
Making small batches, about 400g of cabbage at a time, in wide mouth pint jars with normal metal lids. I can spend around 20 on either a set of glass fermentation weights or a set of airlock lids, not both this month.…
Lines run diagonally upward from the outer hip toward centre back, there is a horizontal pool of fabric just under the seat, and when I sit down the back waistband drops away from my body by about 3cm. Fabric is a mid…
Three inherited carbon steel kitchen knives, all with a very obtuse edge from years of a pull through sharpener, one with a 2mm chip. I need to remove real metal. Budget is about 70 for one purchase. I already own a…
Two offers, base within 2k of each other. One is a senior title at a 40 person company where I'd be the third person on a new team. The other is a non senior title at a company everyone has heard of, on an established…
First proper carry on trip and my list has come down to two t shirts, one button down and a fleece for twelve days. Every time I look at it my brain says that's disgusting and I should add two more shirts. People who…
On my third toile of a fitted shirt and each one fixes a problem and reveals another. Started too tight across the back, then gaping at the neck, now it's the sleeve. I keep seeing people say they made a pattern…
About to buy a 25kg box and I would rather not buy the wrong one twice. I make 8oz jars for gifts and a small market stall, 8 percent fragrance load, and my kitchen sits between 18 and 22C. Straight soy is roughly a…