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One US domestic trip and one to Europe each year, usually with a connection. The driver is the thing I am worried about, storage at home is a hallway cupboard, and I would rather not spend more than the cost of a decent…
I want one small always on box for a side project a tiny API, a database, maybe 2GB of files: and I have been burned once already by a plan that quietly turned into a bill in month thirteen. I don't mind paying…
22 kg mixed breed, six years old, currently on a mid range kibble he has eaten happily for four years. Bloodwork is normal, coat is fine, no itching, no gut issues: so I am not solving a problem, I am reacting to every…
I have a stats card that fetches its own numbers with . I wrapped it like this: On first load the entire page goes blank and shows the route level spinner for about 700ms, then everything appears at once. I expected the…
I sit down at 20:30 planning three hours. By 22:00 I am reading changelogs and moving trello cards around instead of writing anything. People online describe four productive evening hours routinely and I cannot get near…
Two of us, six weeks, internal ops tool for about 60 staff. Roughly 40 operations: lists with filters, a lot of forms, some bulk actions, a couple of CSV exports. There is a decent chance we get asked for a thin mobile…
Six months in. A card with a nine month interval came up yesterday and I had absolutely no idea. Not a hazy memory, nothing. It shook me because I thought the whole point was that this stops happening. Is this expected…
A guide that has ranked in the top three for its main term since 2023 fell to positions 8 12 over about nine days in June and traffic went from roughly 1,400 to 550 sessions a week. No changes to the page, no changes to…
Bengaluru, working from home four days a week, 78 kg, 1.75 m. I've been through two ₹8 9k mesh chairs from online marketplaces and both failed the same way: seat mesh stretched, armrests went floppy, all inside eighteen…
Coffee goes in at home, I want it drinkable four hours later at the desk. The flask lives in a rucksack with a laptop and gets dropped onto tiled floors maybe once a month. My last one was plastic bodied and cracked at…
Budget is about 200 for everything including storage. It lives on a bookshelf in the living room so noise matters, and it needs to be on all the time. Usually one stream direct playing to a TV, occasionally a second…
Been baking a year and this only started in the last month, which is also when my kitchen went from 20C to 26C. Same recipe, 75 percent hydration, strong white flour. First two coil folds are fine, dough is smooth and…
Gravel setup, 40mm tyre on a 23mm internal hookless rim, tubeless with about 60ml of sealant. On dry hardpack corners at 25 psi the front lets go of a burst of air and I lose maybe 3 psi each time. The bead is seated…
Ten year old indoor cat, threw up three times between 7am and noon. First one had food in it, the last two were mostly clear liquid with a bit of foam. Since then she has eaten a small meal, kept it down, and is…
Note taking tool for researchers, $9/mo flat, 640 monthly actives. Infra was $310/mo and comfortable. Then I shipped semantic search: chunk every note, embed with a hosted embedding model, store in Postgres with…
Two of my six started laying about ten days ago. The eggs are maybe half the size I expected and yesterday I found one that was just a membrane sac, no shell at all, sitting under the roost. They're on layer pellets…
Standard international twist converter in a steel nibbed pen. It fills to roughly half and then stops taking ink, even doing the plunge and twist trick five or six times. The pen writes fine on what it does take. New…
Those two I finished in a weekend each and thought about for months afterwards. Cloud Atlas I put down at page 80 and never picked back up, and I cannot work out whether that is the nested structure, the voice…
android side has been shipping to internal testers for a month, ios has not been touched. i have a windows laptop, an iphone for testing, and a lot of confusion about certificates, provisioning profiles and what eas…
I contract, so what I concentrate for is literally what I bill. My calendar has nine till twelve and one till four blocked for real work and I consistently get two decent hours, sometimes three, and the rest turns into…
Upright bike with panniers, about 22 minutes each way, completely flat route, ten trips a week. I never get properly out of breath and I do nothing else in the way of exercise. Part of me thinks two hundred minutes a…
Personal site, five mostly static pages plus a contact form, about 200 visitors a month, and I want to spend as close to nothing as possible without waking up to it being gone. I already had one free host disappear with…
A damp patch appeared behind a wardrobe on an outside wall. No visible mould yet, just a cold stain and a smell in that corner. A firm has quoted me for an indoor air quality assessment with lab samples, and it is a…
Long haul arriving at 14:10 and the onward domestic flight leaves at 15:05 from the same airport but booked as a completely separate ticket with a different airline. One checked bag. The next flight after that is not…
Bought the house in autumn. Cold water tastes and smells clean everywhere, but every hot tap smells strongly of rotten eggs, worst first thing in the morning after the water has been sitting. Water heater is an electric…