Two claims went badly because I could not produce a receipt, so I built the boring system. What matters turned out to be narrow. Capture these, at purchase, or you will not have them A photo of the model and serial…
This room is mostly about objects, but the same question applies to software and the answer is less obvious than it looks. A perpetual licence is sold as ownership. Often what you actually bought was a deadline. I keep…
I keep buying boots in the middle of the market, wearing them daily, and replacing them when the sole wears through. Three pairs in five years. The argument for expensive welted boots is that you resole them and they…
French cleats are my preferred way to hang cabinets and heavy items. Plywood is the obvious material, strong, dimensionally stable and generally straight. I have a job coming up and no plywood on hand, only solid…
Small garage workshop. Table saw has a round port on the back, the vacuum hose is a different diameter, and every adaptor I have tried either falls off or leaks enough that there is still dust everywhere. I have been…
60 specs, runs a production build and serves it. Green locally in 42 seconds. On I get seven failures, always on a , and never the same seven twice. The traces show the page rendered, the button is visibly on screen,…
I am cutting small supports for shelves and wondering which grain orientation is better for holding a screw under a downward load. I understand this is probably negligible at the scale I am working, but I would like to…
400 tests, nine minutes for the whole PR check including build and typecheck. Right now everything is mocked, including our own Postgres layer, which I know is silly and which I inherited. Options: keep mocking, or spin…
I am having a large outdoor bin enclosure made from treated pine with stainless fixings. The quote includes finishing the timber with four or five coats of used car engine oil, presumably as a cheap and long lasting…
340 tests, 6.2 seconds of actual test time, all passing. Then the process sits there doing nothing, eventually complains that closing timed out and that something is probably keeping the process alive, and exits. In CI…
I am building a small door. The frame is glued and nailed, about 25 mm thick, and thin birch plywood will be glued to both faces. My plan was to glue oversized plywood and trim it flush afterwards. The complication is…
Two of us, one app, about 30k lines. 400 Vitest unit tests and 22 Playwright specs today. I want component level coverage for the fiddly design system parts a data table with sticky columns and a combobox with keyboard…
I am building an L shaped desk from solid hardwood boards glued into two large tops, roughly 63 by 127 cm and 63 by 152 cm. I move house frequently, so the whole thing needs to come apart into flat pieces and go back…
Same asking price, both surveyed. The old one has a roof nobody can date and single skin bits at the back, the new one has a warranty with a few years left, thin walls and a render finish I do not understand. Neither…
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…
Every test in the file dies with . The part I cannot get my head around: the const already is above the mock. Moving it further up changes nothing. Vitest 3, TS, alias resolved through the vite tsconfig paths plugin.
Front loader, roughly 600 cycles by my count, throws a drain error and then trips out mid cycle. Drain pump and filter are clear, I checked both. Tech says main control board, 240 for the part and about 90 for the…
I am happy to pay three times the price for something that lasts three times as long, but I keep getting burned by premium versions of the same disposable object. Extended warranties are already ruled out, I have never…
First real e2e suite I have written. Every tutorial says reset the database between tests and then shows a that truncates everything, which obviously explodes the moment I run more than one worker. 40 specs, 4 workers,…
German style 8 inch, full tang with three brass rivets and pakkawood scales. There is now a hairline gap between the steel and the left scale, and water gets into it when I wash the knife. I can see a dark line drying…
18V platform, two packs, both bought at the same time as the drill. They live in an unheated garage, they go back on the charger the moment they come off the drill, and the jobs are light, mostly flatpack and the odd…
70 percent wool, 30 percent polyester, bought in October. Six weeks of wear and there are dense little pills along the seatbelt line across the chest and under both arms. Nowhere else. I have not washed it, it has only…