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Nine customers. Every one of them needed roughly two hours from me before the thing was useful: mapping their field names, importing a messy spreadsheet, fixing the three rows that break the importer, and a call to…
Internal ops dashboard, 8 widgets, each one hitting its own endpoint. Product wants "live", which in practice means a 5 second refresh. Maybe 30 people have it open during a shift, one of them leaves it open on a wall…
My pricing page says we reply within 24 hours, which is true Monday to Thursday and a lie on Friday evenings. Twelve tickets a week, I answer them all myself, and I work a job until six. I am deciding between changing…
Survey flags failed pointing on the back wall, a rewire that looks like it was done in the eighties, single glazed sashes throughout and possible damp on the party wall. The equivalent new build estate is a long way…
I have about 70k miles in one US programme and I want a specific transatlantic route in October. The programme's own search returns nothing on any date I try, but I can see award seats on the same physical flight when I…
I want to batch four chicken breasts and two pork chops on a Sunday and sear one on whichever night I need it. I have a vacuum sealer, a normal fridge, no blast chiller and a small freezer. What is the routine people…
Six weeks in, no paying customers, and about fifteen people who told me they like it. Someone suggested selling ten lifetime licences at $149 to get money and commitment on the table. My per account cost is somewhere…
One kilo loaf, partial gel so there is a distinct ring through every slice, and it is safe and lathers fine. I want it to look like something I could put on a table. I own a slow cooker and about four hours of patience.…
$1.9k MRR, niche internal tool, 26 accounts. Two of them are 55% of revenue and both have asked, separately and unprompted, whether they could "just take it over". A marketplace valuation puts me around 2.4x annual…
I filled two identical silicone trays, one straight from the cold tap at about 20C and one from the kettle after it had cooled to maybe 70C, and put them on the same freezer shelf about 20cm apart. After 40 minutes the…
I've run the same spreadsheet for six years and it works, but it costs me about 40 minutes a month of manual entry and I'm bored of it. Monarch keeps coming up, core plan around $99 a year with a higher tier at $199. I…
I get the zigzag visual thing for roughly twenty minutes before the pain arrives, three or four times a month. Right now I mostly panic and try to finish whatever I am doing. I would rather use that window well. What…
Two years of waiting, deposit sitting in a savings account, and in that time our rent has gone up twice. Every time it looks like the moment, someone at work explains why next year will be better. I am not asking for a…
A cut about a fifth of the team in March and the surviving work got redistributed onto four of us. I went from roughly 22 real hours a week there to something like 38, and B has not got any smaller. Last week I missed a…
Partner moved in in February. They sprawl, they turn over about ten times a night, and they come to bed at 1am while I'm up at 6. I now wake three or four times a night and I'm getting short with people at work. I don't…
Day job plus family means I realistically have about ten hours a week, mostly evenings. I've got an offer to do ongoing work for one client at roughly £45/hour that would eat all ten, or I can keep juggling three…
is clean on my laptop every single time. On CI it fails maybe one run in five, always in the same cache package, always the same two stacks. I have run the package alone locally about fifty times with no hit. I'd rather…
Saw two award seats, transferred 60000 points out of my flexible currency to the airline programme, and by the time the transfer landed about 20 hours later the seats had gone. Points are now stuck in a programme I…
First product I have ever charged for. I keep reading that the free tier should be generous and also that it should be limited and both sound like advice. What I actually want to know is how people decide the number. Do…
Bought a 200 page A5 notebook advertised as 100gsm, and every ink I own spreads into little hairy lines, worst with a medium nib. The same pens on 80gsm printer paper are crisp. I assumed heavier paper meant better…
Paid very little for it, the geometry is thin and it took a scary edge on my stones in about ten minutes. Problems: it rusts if I look at it wrong, the handle is a loose piece of wood on a rat tail tang, and I have no…
Second season, one colony, and all the capital items are bought and paid for. I want to build a realistic annual budget rather than being surprised each spring. Specifically I am after the recurring items: mite…
About $1,100/month across 48 subscriptions, roughly half of them European. Hosting and everything else is $46/month. When I finally read the fee breakdown properly there is a separate conversion line that was bigger…
Diagnosed at 34, and looking back this is my fourth crash rather than my first. The usual burnout advice, take a break, do something you enjoy, see friends: makes it worse, because socialising is one of the things…
Cluster autoscaler adds nodes during our morning ramp and for about 30 60 seconds afterwards we get a burst of resolution failures for in cluster service names, mostly from pods that were just scheduled onto the new…