I have a stable IT support role with decent hours and people I like. Another company is offering a similar salary, but the team is much smaller and the job would include systems work I barely touch now. The smaller role...
- career-decision
- it-support
- job-change
A possible new job pays noticeably more but adds about 45 minutes each way to my commute, three days a week. That's roughly four and a half extra hours in traffic every week before counting the cost of travel. The work i...
- career-advice
- commuting
- time
- salary
I saved seeds from a particularly tasty tomato and planted a few out of curiosity. Then I remembered it might have been a hybrid, so the seedlings may not produce fruit identical to the parent. That's fine for an experim...
- gardening
- saving
- seeds
- vegetables
Our CSS accumulated hundreds of tiny utility classes written ad hoc over several years. They aren't a coherent system; `mt-small`, `margin-top-2` and a dozen similar names all coexist. Rewriting every template for a new...
- webdev
- migrating
- codebase
- utility
I get a rapid clicking sound during tight turns at low speed, most clearly when pulling out of a parking space with the steering nearly at full lock. It doesn't happen on normal corners and naturally went silent when a m...
- car-repair
- clicking
- sound
- tight
My running shoes still look clean, but they've accumulated a lot of kilometers and the cushioning feels less lively than I remember. I don't want to replace them based on an arbitrary mileage number when runners and surf...
- running
- replace
- shoes
- still
A metal door handle and the wooden door are in the same room all night. In the morning the handle feels much colder, even though a thermometer would probably give a similar temperature for both. My guess is metal transfe...
- explain-simply
- metal
- feels
- colder
I went through a long stretch where almost everything I read was for classes or practical information. When I picked up a novel again, I kept reading it like an assignment: underline, remember details, make progress. Wha...
- reading-habits
- fiction
- study
Clothes come out of the wash smelling clean, then a sweater left in the wardrobe for a month develops a stale odor. The cupboard isn't visibly damp, and other fabrics seem fine. Could leftover detergent, body oils or low...
- ask-anything
- clothes
- smell
- fine
The air conditioning is properly cold on the highway. Sit at two long traffic lights and the vents start blowing barely cool air, then recover when I get moving again. Engine temperature appears normal. That makes me won...
- car-repair
- conditioner
- cold
- moving