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41, sixteen years in, and the pension formula gets me to something like sixty percent at 25 years with a partial cost of living adjustment. Spouse works part time with no employer cover of her own. What I cannot get a…
One cat, third floor walk up, and hauling 12 kg of clay up the stairs every fortnight is the actual problem I am trying to solve. Tofu pellets are about twice the price per bag here but the bags are much lighter, so I…
Side project, last commit in November. Went to run it this weekend and the install fails outright. The Node version the project expects is past its support window, two dependencies have deprecation warnings that are now…
Winters went on in November, the shake started in January. It only happens when the car has sat outside overnight, it is worst around 100 kilometres an hour, and by the time I am ten minutes into the commute it has…
Rented flat with downstairs neighbours, landlord will not have a rack in the spare room, and the nearest gym is forty minutes each way. I have a doorway pull up bar, a set of loop bands and two 12kg dumbbells. I am…
Took my entire annual leave in one block, went somewhere nice, slept a lot, and came back feeling exactly the same: flat, cynical about work I used to actually like, and dreading Monday from roughly Saturday lunchtime.…
Employer is a mid size fintech, about 600 people. My contract assigns inventions "relating to the company's field of business" with no time or equipment qualifier. My side project is a habit tracker with 60 paying…
Bought a four year old estate, financed about 80% over five years, and the dealer pushed gap cover as an add on at signing. My understanding is that it only pays if the car is written off and I owe more than the insurer…
Canada, first purchase, pre approved directly with my own bank at a rate I suspect is mediocre because I did not negotiate and they know I have been with them since I was nineteen. A broker has offered to shop it and…
Running about a dozen containers behind a reverse proxy. After every host reboot, eleven of them come up fine and one returns 502 until I manually restart that container, after which it works for weeks. The container…
Singapore, oily and mildly acne prone, and every sunscreen I've tried is either a white cast or a grease film within three hours. I've ruled out the heavy mineral formulas already because they pill under everything I…
returns . returns . returns an . Today that is three overloads and an implementation signature that is frankly a lie held together with . Someone on the team wants to replace it with a conditional return type driven by…
Consumer inserts an invoice row, then emails a receipt. The payment provider redelivered once which is their documented behaviour and entirely my problem to handle my insert hit the unique constraint, the handler threw,…
Solo, 29 a month, 40 paying accounts. Last month I answered 14 tickets which came to a bit under four hours including the context switching, which for me is most of a weeknight and half a Saturday morning. Broken down:…
It's $249.99 for the original one and I keep almost buying it. I want it for two day work trips with a laptop, a tablet and a handheld, so on paper the tech organisation is exactly my use case. What I can't tell from…
I am about 12 hours into a long web development course and I retain roughly nothing between sessions. I get one hour on weekday evenings, occasionally two at the weekend. Do I push through the remaining 28 hours first…
Day job laptop is managed, work GitHub is behind company SSO, and realistically my best clear hour is between 12 and 1 sitting at my desk. Evenings are two tired hours after the kid goes down. I want a setup where there…
Small cluster, no log stack yet, everything goes to stdout and we read it with kubectl. Service crash looped for about an hour overnight, the node got rebooted by the platform, and by the time I looked there was nothing…
Svelte 5.20 ish. I have a filtered list and I wanted a count of what survived the filter, so: Dev server dies with I understand that it's forbidden. I don't understand why. In Svelte 4 this was a reactive statement and…
We have about 60 components in a shared package. Currently every variant is a ternary in a template literal and some of them are four levels deep and genuinely unreadable. The obvious move is cva. The thing stopping me…
Marketplace site, user uploaded photos, about 9,000 listings. Bill was $341 and I assumed it was function invocations because traffic doubled last month. It was not. Functions were $34. Image optimization was $263. I…
Shooting in a rented room with ceiling LED panels. I set a custom white balance off a grey card and the overall image is neutral, but skin still looks slightly green yellow, and correcting the skin sends the walls…
Small app, maybe 300 signups, everything currently happens inside the request. Sending the welcome email adds about 900ms to signup and generating a PDF invoice takes two to four seconds while the user watches a…
I went through a month of statements and there was not one day without a transaction, mostly between £3 and £8. Income is fine and I am not in debt, but my savings rate is embarrassing and those small transactions added…
First time owning a database rather than inheriting one. The docs show both a push command that syncs the schema straight to the database and a generate/migrate flow that produces .sql files. They are presented as equal…