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138 posts since January, nearly all of them some flavour of "here is the number and what changed this week". I finally put the whole funnel in one chart instead of looking at one metric at a time, and it is bleak:…
Sixty targets, hand picked, real research on each. First email went out last week and I have two replies, one of which is a polite no. Everything I read about sequences says between four and nine touches, which feels…
I publish images on my site and I would like to prevent visitors from saving them: right clicking to save, or finding the file through the browser's developer tools. I have seen suggestions involving disabling the…
Take a strong metal bar and pull it apart with a force far below what would break it. Obviously nothing happens immediately. My thinking is that the force still disturbs the internal arrangement slightly. Release it and…
Launching in about three weeks and I have been quietly dreading the all nighter. Everything I read says the first hours decide the day and the day starts at 12:01am Pacific. I am in central Europe. I have a day job on…
37, lifting twice a week for about a year plus a lot of walking, not trying to gain size. Everything I read about creatine is written for 90 kg men and the comment sections underneath are full of 'you'll look puffy'.…
Fresh node, packages installed from the distribution repositories, and the kubelet will not come up. The service log says it failed to validate the service connection because the container runtime API version is not…
My cat is not especially affectionate, but when she does come for attention she purrs remarkably loudly and does not stop, sometimes for a long time. It made me wonder whether purring costs her anything. It is a…
The standard advice is that muscle is built during recovery, and that training the same thing every day without rest breaks you down rather than building you up. Military basic training appears to contradict this…
Almost every circuit in a car is protected by a fuse that has to be replaced once it blows. Household wiring moved to circuit breakers decades ago, and a breaker can simply be reset. Cars do use breakers in a few…
Uptime checks every minute, push straight to my phone. Last month it woke me three times: once real, the connection pool was exhausted and the app was properly down, and twice for blips that healed inside forty seconds…
with a submit button that also has an onClick wrapping the same action in . On wifi you never see it. On a throttled 3G profile I get two order rows about 40% of the time. And returns for the whole submit, so the…
Open any river on a mapping app and there is nothing indicating direction. The line is just a line. For a big river I might happen to know which end reaches the sea, but for a tributary in unfamiliar country I have no…
Sold a $290 annual plan to a small company in Germany. They emailed asking for a proper invoice showing my VAT number and their VAT number so their accountant can process it. I do not have a VAT number. I have a US…
I'm signed off for four weeks and the company has been decent about it. The problem is that what broke me is a manager who reassigns my work at 6pm and a team that's been two people short since January, and neither of…
Thinking about this after reading about diversions. A domestic flight is one where passengers may reasonably be carrying no passport at all a driving licence, a national ID card, or nothing. If that aircraft has to…
First house with a septic system, moved in eight months ago. The previous owner says he pumped it every five years and the neighbour says every two, and the county leaflet says three to five. Two adults, no garbage…
I have created some roles, a function, and granted various privileges across a schema. Now I would like an overview: for each role, everything it has been granted. The built in role listing shows attributes and…
Currently on pre ground supermarket bags and a french press, and I want to stop. Budget is genuinely $100 right now I am on a stipend, not being coy: and I would rather buy something adequate this month than something…
Someone explains a thing, I follow every step, it makes total sense and I feel the click. An hour later I could not reproduce a single line of it and I am back where I started. This happens with work concepts, with…
I was fixing something to a wall and the nail seems to have gone into a cable. Pulling it back makes the lights in the room go out; pushing it back in restores them. I have left it in place for now and I intend to get…
This may be an unusual problem. My partner photographs at ground level a great deal: lying flat in fields, on paths, at the edge of water, often very still for long periods waiting for light. The recurring issue is that…
Had the tank pumped for the first time since we bought the place, watched them empty it completely, and felt very smug about it. Lifted the lid nine days later out of curiosity and the liquid is nearly back up to the…
I bill $0.02 per completed task. My app writes a row to for each one and also posts a meter event to Stripe. For last month my table says 1,204,880 tasks. The meter summary says 1,133,090. That is 71,790 tasks, roughly…
410 active subscriptions between $19 and $49, roughly $11.4k MRR. Every month about $430 of invoices fail on the first charge. Automatic retries get back around $225 of it, so I am losing something like $205 a month…