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Opened a project I abandoned in December. Install fails, a native dependency will not compile, the lockfile references versions that have moved, the CI config points at a runner image that no longer exists, and the…
US, conventional loan, about $291,000 left at 6.1% with 26 years to run, and a $40,000 windfall I do not need for anything else. I would rather keep the 26 year term and lower the payment than shorten the term, because…
Five months of weekly revenue and traffic posts. Two weeks ago a near identical landing page appeared, same structure, same angle, name one letter away from mine. There are three now. One of them is buying ads on my…
It sat directly beside a south facing window for two years and looked great. We rearranged the living room and it is now on the other side of the sofa, same room, maybe four feet back and slightly off to the side.…
About thirty accessories, an Apple TV as the hub, and everything works today. The two things pushing me are a Zigbee sensor that refuses to join anything Apple and automations that cannot express what I want, like…
Down quilt rated 30F, pad is R4.5, sleeping in a base layer and socks. Two trips now where the low was around 40F and I was cold enough at 3am to put my puffy on and still shiver. Straps are on and clipped under the…
Twenty gallon low tech, set up 22 days ago, inert gravel with root tabs and a cheap clip light on eight hours. Everything is covered in a soft brown film, glass, plant leaves, even the heater cable. It wipes off with a…
Three different hotels in a row, same pattern. The call runs fine for eight to twelve minutes, then video freezes and audio robots out for thirty seconds, then it recovers. Speed tests look fine, 40 down, so it is not…
Three years of commuting and the liner has reached the point where I notice it in the office. It is a textile jacket with a removable membrane liner and armour in the shoulders, elbows and back. Everything online is…
Two sweaters, different brands, both around 70% merino. Both developed dense pilling under the arms and along the sides where my bag strap sits, within about four wears. Rest of the sweater is smooth. I hand wash cold…
Five weeks into cure, sitting on a wire rack in a spare room next to the bathroom, and it is a humid summer here. Recipe is olive heavy with 5 percent superfat and I used sodium lactate in the lye water for the first…
I need about $600 a month extra and I have twelve hours on evenings and Saturdays. Option one is shifts at a shop I already know, fixed rate, someone else tells me when to turn up. Option two is freelance bookkeeping at…
Sewing a lined jacket in a mid weight twill. I pin every 5cm and match the notches, but by the end of a 60cm side seam the upper layer has travelled forward and I am left with a 2cm overhang. It happens on both sides…
I live in a flat with no extractor over the hob and a neighbour who shares a landing, which I suspect is the real constraint rather than money. Currently buying roasted beans from a local shop and I like them, so this…
Moved it from beside a south window to the other side of the same room, about two metres further in, because the leaves were getting scorched in the afternoon. That was six weeks ago. Since then it has dropped one lower…
Fourteen years in industry and I have an offer with a stipend that is roughly a third of what I earn now. My partner works and we can survive it on paper, but I will be forty three or forty four finishing and everyone…
I work in an office with a north facing window and I commute in the dark half the year. I've been buying a GBP 22 sunscreen out of guilt and using maybe a third of the bottle before it expires. I'm trying to work out…
Redesign job. Every time I ask what they want the answer is a version of we will know when we see it, and the examples they send contradict each other. Budget is real, around 5k, and they are pleasant people. Fixed…
We have maybe 60 square metres of lawn over heavy clay, and it sits under standing water from November to February. Everyone local keeps hens, but two people have told me ducks cope with the wet far better and keep…
The app is useless until you connect a data source, which takes an api key and about two minutes. Session recordings show people landing on an empty dashboard, clicking three things, and closing the tab. Median session…
First house, decent with flat pack and a drill, no experience beyond that. My list this year has a tiled bathroom floor and a couple of light fittings on it, plus the usual painting and filling. I am not trying to save…
Writing this up because it was entirely preventable and I want to know how other people structure against it. One dashboard query was slow. Someone swapped the client in for one built with the service role key because…
Postgres 16, about 120k rows in the child table. The call is . pg stat statements shows four separate statements, and the slow one is a select on items with an list of 50 ids doing a sequential scan. The equivalent…
Replacing a bed that lasted six years before it developed a visible dip, and the showroom experience has convinced me of nothing: everything feels fine for four minutes. I can spend $3,000 without pain but I would…
Overhead fluorescents plus a window behind my monitor, and by mid afternoon three or four days a week I am in trouble. I have a supportive manager and an HR process that wants specifics rather than 'the lights are bad'.…