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Started tracking my side project time properly this month. Last week: 2h50 fighting a Docker layer cache in GitHub Actions, 1h25 rewriting my logger for no reason anyone could defend, 1h05 reading docs and changelogs,…
Coming from a gym background, I can back squat fine but my longest ever run is 10km and that was rough. The format is eight one kilometre runs between the stations, so on paper it is a distance I could already cover. I…
Looking at the cheap end because this is for a hobby stream that makes no money, and Fifine keeps coming up as the value pick at around a third of the price of the usual recommendations. What I cannot find is anyone…
900 item list, each row is an image, two text lines and a favourite button. Scrolling is visibly janky on a mid range device and Layout Inspector shows recomposition counts in the 400s for rows after about ten seconds…
Woke up to an email saying my AWS account is closed. This was the newer credit based free plan, signed up about six months ago, $100 in credits, plan runs six months or until the credits run out. I knew the date was…
I've had a subscription running for over a year, mostly for the sleep stories and rain soundscapes, and I switched to a second app after the first stopped working for me. It's roughly seventy dollars a year and I…
Trying to connect to an old network switch and the connection is refused with a complaint that no matching key exchange method was found, naming the one the switch offers. What confuses me is that when I ask my client…
Simple situation. A modal with a form. The user has typed something and clicks cancel. We want to warn them the changes will be lost. Every version I write is ambiguous in some way. The buttons end up being some pair of…
The advice I keep meeting is that polynomial regression above cubic is a bad idea unless you have a strong reason. The justification is always extrapolation, the curve does something insane just past the edge of your…
Split 1.5kg of beef cheeks, seared both the same way, same stock and aromatics. Oven batch went into a cast iron pot at about 140C for three and a half hours, cooker batch went eight hours on low. Both were tender but…
There is a persistent claim that music tuned with A at 432 hertz rather than the standard 440 produces a measurably different effect on listeners: described variously as warmer, calmer or more natural. I can see two…
Over two years I have set up a hardened browser, always on VPN, email aliases, a self hosted DNS filter and a separate browser profile for shopping. I use exactly one of them today and the rest died from friction,…
Flicking through my passport I noticed the page beside the photo page is headed with a note that the space is reserved for official observations, followed by a line stating that there are no official observations. I…
Text messages pass through the mobile network in a form the operator can read, and the protocols underneath have known weaknesses that allow messages to be intercepted or redirected under some circumstances. Given that,…
Roughly 600k lines of Go in a single module, one repo, VS Code on a 16GB laptop. Opening the repo root has gopls climbing to several gigabytes within a few minutes and then completions start taking two or three seconds…
Follow on from the handoff conversation. Documentation cut my call volume a lot. It did nothing at all for the money, because I am still doing unpaid work at inconvenient hours on the grounds that "it is only twenty…
I have a well known entry level burr grinder, bought used a couple of months ago, used daily for pour over at a setting in the middle of its range. A few days ago the output became noticeably coarser at the same…
Our group had a disagreement at the crag today. A friend climbed a route without a rope that everybody else was climbing on a top rope. Another party objected, fairly strongly. My own position is uncomfortable. I was…
I want to replace the barrel plug on a low voltage DC power supply so I can run the device from a battery backup instead. The lead from the supply has two conductors: one plain white, one white with grey stripes. I do…
Suppose I live somewhere cold enough that I am heating my home at essentially all times, and consider a room with no windows. An inefficient bulb turns most of its electricity into heat rather than light. But that heat…
Six weeks into part time van living and I'm awake at 2am for everything a car door, someone walking past, wind moving the van. I'm parking legally in quiet places and nothing has ever actually happened. The days are…
Doing 300 miles a week on motorway, mostly on a naked bike with a small flyscreen, and I'm coming home with my ears ringing. I'm in a mid range full face that's fine everywhere except noise. Budget could stretch to…
Annual subscriber renewed on the 14th. My backend did not hear about it until she emailed on the 17th, opened the app, and it silently fixed itself in front of her. I listen to in a task started at launch and post each…
I keep seeing discussion of situations where a heavily shorted share rises sharply and the people who bet against it lose enormous amounts. I understand at the vaguest level that some people bet a share will fall and…
One API route, one indexed query returning about 40 rows. Locally it is 130ms. Deployed, the first request after roughly 15 minutes of idle takes 2.7 2.9s, and everything after that is 130 160ms. I wrapped the handler…
