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Three weeks in and I have installed nineteen plugins, built two dashboards, and written approximately four actual notes. The app is free for personal use and sync is a few dollars a month, so cost isn't the problem the…
65 percent kit, 68 switches, through hole diodes already populated thankfully. Six hours across two evenings, and nothing went wrong at all. It works, it looks fine, no bridges. But I kept stopping to re read…
First attempt at mead. A kilogram of single flower honey, two and a half litres of bottled water, warmed to about 50 degrees to dissolve the honey, cooled, yeast pitched. Two weeks on there is a substantial layer of…
I have taken in a six month old male who has been used to wandering freely in the countryside. I now live on the second floor of a building with a shared entrance balcony, meaning he could get out whenever a neighbour…
Solo, B2B ish tool, about 40 signups a month from search and one newsletter. I do not do demos and I do not want to start. Right now it is free with a paid upgrade nobody clicks. I am rewriting the whole signup flow…
Replacing a warped cheap skillet, it rocks on my glass hob and oil pools on one side, which makes searing anything a lottery. Budget goes to about $200 if there's a genuine reason, and I'm moving to a gas hob next…
Small B2B tool, 1,400 requests a day, extremely bursty almost all of it between 09:00 and 11:00 on weekdays and then nothing. Cold start is about 1.4s and customers notice it, because the person who opens the app at…
First attempt at rice koji. Soaked overnight, steamed 45 minutes, cooled to about 35C, inoculated with spores, wrapped in a cloth in a cooler with a warm water bottle. Bed temperature has been drifting between 30 and…
I am building an L shaped desk from solid hardwood boards glued into two large tops, roughly 63 by 127 cm and 63 by 152 cm. I move house frequently, so the whole thing needs to come apart into flat pieces and go back…
Six weeks into training, doing push ups on the floor with flat hands. Everything else feels fine but my wrists ache for about a day afterwards, not sharp, more like a dull soreness right at the crease where the hand…
My list is currently built around comfort at every temperature and it is already heavier than I want to carry between stations. I have done two week trips before but never anything long enough for the packing errors to…
Ten minute 1080p piece. My H.264 export is 1.8 GB, the file the client got from their previous editor is about 420 MB and looks the same to me on their monitor. I matched resolution and frame rate. They asked, politely,…
Four birds, all hatched in spring five years ago, all healthy and active, and between them I am getting three or four eggs a week. The feed bill has not changed at all and I have space for six birds maximum in the run.…
Same routine for a year. Moved house and the brewing spot is now about 18C instead of 24C. The tea still goes sour roughly on schedule but no new pellicle has formed across the surface in three consecutive batches, and…
Two kilos, standard paste, sitting at the back of a 4C fridge with everything under the brine and the lid burped every couple of weeks. It is far sourer and fizzier than it was and the cabbage has gone soft, so I have…
I have washed chicken under the tap my entire adult life because that is what I was taught at home, and apparently the advice is now the opposite. What I cannot tell is which of these kitchen and household rules are…
I stop working in about three years and would like income arriving smoothly rather than in four lumps. The obvious approach is buying quarterly payers across the three different cycles so something lands every month,…
I want to look at a standard acquisition report as a line chart aggregated by month rather than by day. Over a long period the daily view is unreadable noise and the shape I care about is the trend. This seems like it…
Rural road that is ice from December to March, then 25 km of highway that the province keeps clear. So my week is roughly a third genuinely icy and two thirds cold dry asphalt. Budget is not the constraint, tolerance…
First launch I have ever done. Day zero was 4,100 uniques and it felt incredible. Day four was 210. It has been sitting between 165 and 190 for a fortnight since, with one small bump. I knew there would be a drop, I did…
4060 Ti 16GB. The task is document extraction: about 3k tokens of prompt in, a JSON object with 12 fields out, several of them nullable. Runs unattended on a few hundred documents a night, so correctness matters more…
About 10k miles a year, nearly all motorway, and I want something I can run for at least three years without a nasty bill. I am mostly worried about walking into a timing belt or a hidden rust job on something that…
Noticed a pattern in my signups table: eleven accounts over four months, all Gmail, all the same string with the dots moved around. Same trial, same features, presumably the same person. A couple came from the same IP.…
Quoted just under USD 2,600 installed for a ducted whole house unit, against roughly USD 500 for two decent portables I could put in the basement and the upstairs hall. Three storey house, forced air already in place,…
About twenty minutes a night of voice practice in Portuguese with a model. Inside the app I sound great, because it waits, it never gets bored, and it understands me even when I mangle the verb. Then I get on a family…