Real questions, real answers. Join the rooms that match your curiosity, vote the best answers up, and ask anything: with your name or anonymously.
Six weeks in, two small jobs done, both left five star reviews, and since then my proposals go nowhere. Everything I read says reviews are the unlock and I have reviews, just not enough of them to sit next to people…
First app I have ever submitted. It is a local only calculator for a niche trade no accounts, no server, no network calls at all. I left the demo account fields empty and wrote "no account required" in the notes.…
I have been drinking the same roasted oolong for two months, 5g in a 120ml gaiwan, water just off the boil, short steeps. I moved flat and bought a new kettle at the same time, and now it tastes thin and slightly…
First January with the cafe open. December was excellent, and takings for the first three weeks of January are running about 40% below the December average and roughly 25% below October. Same hours, same menu, no…
Been doing pull ups three days a week, 4 sets to failure each session, which is basically 4, 3, 2, 2. Hasn't moved since March. Bodyweight is stable, I sleep fine, and I'm not sore the next day. Everything I read says…
About 40 square metres, full time job, and year one was neat rows which by August looked like a list of chores I was failing. I am tempted to redo it as a mixed planting with perennial herbs and flowers through it, but…
Put out a tray of lettuce, chard and kale seedlings ten days ago, all hardened off over a week of increasing outdoor time. They have not died and they have not grown. A few outer leaves went pale and papery. The kale…
2016 hatchback, 96000km, private seller, second owner. Interior is genuinely clean, service book has stamps up to 2023 then nothing. Three different tyre brands on four wheels, and the oil is so clean it looks like it…
That is around 190 a year for a plan that covers an exam, some allowance toward frames and a discount on lenses. My prescription is stable, I wear glasses only, no contacts, and I have been buying frames online for well…
Internal API, about 40 endpoints, two of us. I want runtime validation at the boundary and types that cannot drift from it. There is an OpenAPI document generated from the handlers today but nobody fully trusts it.…
Backend engineer, eight years in, references are strong and I get interviews. I have reached two final rounds and lost both, and beyond that I get screens that go nowhere in particular. Nothing about the process feels…
Four sessions a week indoors from November, aluminium frame with a carbon fork, bike bolted into a direct drive trainer in a spare room with no fan. Everything looks fine while I am riding and then in spring I find…
1978 two storey, upstairs is freezing in winter and the top of the stairs is a wind tunnel. Our utility offers a free walkthrough audit and there is a local firm quoting about 400 for a blower door test, thermal imaging…
He does 25 to 30km days in the Cairngorms with a 14kg pack and has done for a decade, and he watched me weighing tent pegs with genuine pity. My days are 15 to 20km and I am at 7.8kg base. I cannot tell whether he is…
Second remote job nets me about $1,900 a month after withholding. I expected to be sitting on ten grand by now and the balance has gone from $4,100 to $4,700. I don't feel like I'm splurging, no new car, no holiday so…
I have been burned twice by cheerful word origin books that repeat the acronym stories with a straight face. Someone recommended Anatoly Liberman's Word Origins and How We Know Them and I cannot tell from the blurb…
Backend role, six years of experience, offer landed at the very bottom of a band that spans about twenty two percent from floor to ceiling. I have no competing offer, I like the team, and my current job is fine but…
I want something that looks like a watch at a dinner table and still counts steps and sleep. Budget to about $400, iPhone. What worries me is that every hybrid I've looked at has a tiny sub dial or a hidden display, and…
We had family staying and clearly used more water than the well could keep up with, because the taps sputtered and then gave nothing for about an hour. It recovered on its own by evening. Since then the water has an…
Same product underneath, forked eighteen months ago for the first client and again twice since. Every bug now gets fixed between one and three times depending on whether I remember. I want one codebase and eventually a…
Very one sided. After about an hour of heavy mouse use, spreadsheets and CAD, there is a burning between the shoulder blade and the spine on the right. The left side never complains. Same chair, same desk, same…
Solo, product is live, about 90 free users and 6 paying. I have roughly 3 hours a week that could go to writing and I keep flip flopping. A newsletter feels like the thing that builds an audience but it is a weekly…
9km each way, and it will live locked to a rack at a train station five days a week, outdoors, in all weather. I want mudguards and a rack, and I am open to used. I keep reading that you should not buy the cheapest…
Three tiers at 19, 49 and 99, solo B2B tool, and about 90 percent of customers sit on the middle one. The top tier currently has two features I built because a prospect asked and nobody has ever bought it. I cannot work…
I have a Lodge skillet and a De Buyer carbon steel and they feel like different materials in use. The carbon steel is hot in three minutes and loses it the instant a cold steak goes in; the skillet takes forever and…