Making a shift dress in rayon challis. The zipper tape sits flat but the fabric either side ripples along the whole 40cm. I have basted first, used the invisible zipper foot, and stitched both sides from the top down.…
Japanese sencha, 4g to 250ml. The first steep at 75C for 60 seconds is lovely. The second steep at the same temperature comes out sharp and drying whether I go 30 seconds or 90. Straining faster does not seem to matter.…
Small website build, quoted a flat 1200 because a similar one took me about 25 hours last year. This one took 60 because of content delays, an extra language nobody mentioned, and a plugin that broke everything. That is…
I wear roughly the same thing to an office four days a week and my current shoes are done. I can spend about 300 total. The resoleable Goodyear welted option is right at the top of that, which means one pair worn every…
The joint nearest the fingertip buckles inward on the fourth and fifth fingers, only in the right hand, and only once I am ten or so minutes into practice. Cold, at the start of a session, everything holds fine. There…
Original 1890s sash, both cords intact and running smoothly, glass sound, frame solid. Problem is it rattles in any real wind and there's a noticeable cold stream along the meeting rail in the middle. I don't want to…
I need one attribute in the manifest for an SDK I am integrating. Their docs say "add this line to AndroidManifest.xml". Everything I read says do not edit the file directly in a managed project, write a config plugin…
Lab results came back at 3.1 ppm iron, 18 grains per gallon hardness, pH 7.4, no detectable manganese or sulphide. Orange staining in every fixture and the laundry is suffering. I have about $1,600 to spend and space…
Six months into TypeScript, coming from JS. I parse a request body with zod and then write because the hover tooltip on the parse result is an unreadable wall of and I already have a interface defined for the rest of…
The version I've heard three times now is that Roman sculptors filled cracks in marble with wax, so honest work was sine cera, without wax, and that gave us sincere. It's a lovely story and it has the shape of something…
Six months into freehand sharpening. On the 1000 I can raise a burr along the whole edge and feel it easily with a thumb. Move to the 6000 and I feel nothing on either side no matter how many passes I do, so I never…
Agreed terms with a buyer for a small tool doing about nine hundred a month, forty odd accounts, mostly annual. Nice person, technical, wants to run it themselves. Neither of us has done this before and we are both…
One $12 VPS, Postgres on the same box, a Node app. About 20 jobs a minute: thumbnails, transactional email, a nightly export. No spikes worth the name. Everything I read says use Redis. Redis means another process to…
One customer, 200 a month, has asked for an integration with a system I have never heard of that I would guess is used by maybe a few hundred companies. It is two to three weeks of work. They have implied, politely,…
Side project, 30 req/s at peak, mostly reads, one postgres, one node api, one worker, plus about 40 GB of user uploads sitting in R2. A CX22 is around 4.50 euro a month and I'd run everything on it with compose. Fly…
Springtails were thriving for two months, visible in hundreds every time I lifted a leaf or the cork bark. I added a starter culture of isopods four weeks ago and now I barely see a springtail anywhere. The isopods look…
Wake up to wet backs on the two birds who roost at the far end. Coop is a converted shed, about 6x4 feet, six hens. There are two vents at roost height on the door side and I keep them open all winter. Outside temps…
Five nights in the Cascades in September, forecast is the usual mix of drizzle and one proper rain day. My current double wall tent is 1.6kg and it's the biggest single item in my pack. A tarp and bivy setup gets me to…
Had these grains for about eight months and they were reliable at roughly 24 hours to a thick tangy kefir. Over the past fortnight the grains have got stringy and slippery to handle, and the milk now splits into curds…
New to well water. Test came back 2.1 ppm iron, 14 grains hardness, pH 7.4, no bacteria. Two adults, one bathroom, maybe 150 gallons a day. A local company quoted 3,400 for a softener plus a dedicated iron filter, and…
The agent writes and runs shell commands against a checkout of our repo tests, migrations, the odd script. About 200 runs a day, all triggered by me, no public input anywhere in the path yet. Right now it runs on my…
Same loaf, cut in half, half in a bag on the counter and half in a bag in the fridge, because I was trying to stop it going mouldy in a humid week. Counter half was fine on day three. Fridge half was dry and crumbly by…
Wholesale supplier for our main ingredients sent an email announcing an 18% increase effective in two weeks, citing costs. Our agreement runs to March. I have 400 printed menus and boards priced for the old cost.…
48GB M4 Pro, Ollama, 14B Q4 K M, 8k context. I get a steady 18 tok/s. Everything I read has people casually mentioning 40+ on Apple silicon and I cannot tell whether they are on different hardware, measuring something…
With my eyes I can see craters and the darker patches clearly. My phone shows a featureless white disc every single time, even though the phone camera is genuinely good at everything else. Zooming in just makes a bigger…