Ask

Is the DJI Mic Mini overkill for talking-head video shot at a desk?

Bought one for a use case exactly like yours and I do not regret it, but the reason is not audio quality. It is that I stopped having to think about the mic at all: clip it on, it records to itself as a backup, and I never touch a cable. That convenience is worth something if you record often, and nothing if you record twice a month.

167 · in/webcam-and-mic ·

Cucumber leaves yellowing between the veins in bagged potting mix

Yellow between green veins starting on old leaves and moving up is classic magnesium, and in a container of bagged mix six weeks in with daily watering it is completely expected: the nutrients that came in the bag are exhausted at around six weeks and magnesium leaches quickly. Epsom salts at about a tablespoon per five litres of water, applied as a drench, will show improvement in a week. But treat the underlying cause too, which is that you have not fed a heavy feeder in a 40 litre pot for a month and a half. A balanced liquid feed weekly from now on.

146 · in/kitchen-garden ·

A doorbell camera with no subscription: is it just an expensive chime?

Local storage cameras with a card slot and an open protocol exist and are the answer to the question you are actually asking. The trade is that you do the work: you configure the storage, you handle remote access yourself, and there is no polished app to hand to a flatmate. In exchange nothing expires, nothing is uploaded and nobody can change the terms next year.

212 · in/photo-gear ·

model passes a comma string where my tool schema says string[], zod to json schema

Long shot from a day I lost: check whether the field name itself is steering it. We had tags next to a filter string in the same tool, and a lot of the malformed calls looked like the model had blended the two parameters. Renamed one and the confusion dropped noticeably. No idea how to predict that in advance, but it is worth eyeballing the neighbours of a parameter that keeps getting mangled.

34 · in/agents-and-mcp ·

Hot sauce mash stopped bubbling on day four at 3 percent salt

Not stalled, finished the noisy part. The visible bubbling is mostly the early heterofermentative stage burning through easy sugars, and jalapenos do not have many. Once the pH drops under about 4.2 the population shifts and gas production falls off a cliff while acidification continues quietly. Leave it two more weeks and taste it, it will get rounder and less raw. Adding sugar to restart bubbling gives you a fizzy sauce, not a better one.

152 · in/fermenting ·

mcp server lists 12 tools over stdio and 0 over streamable http, same code

One more: if auth is wrong you may be getting a 401 on the second request only, because some clients send the token on connect and not on subsequent calls, or send it in a header your proxy drops. Log every request that reaches the app with method and status. "tools/list never arrives" and "tools/list arrives and nginx answers it" look the same from inside your handler.

38 · in/agents-and-mcp ·