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Daytime alone is easy for me. I can walk, visit museums, sit in a cafe, whatever. Around 7 pm I suddenly become very aware that I am by myself. I do not mind eating alone, but after dinner I end up wandering without much...
A volunteer squash plant appeared in the vegetable bed and is growing enthusiastically. I didn't plan for it, and its leaves are already shading herbs nearby. Part of me wants to let the surprise develop; the practical s...
I keep burning minced garlic while waiting for diced onions to soften. The recipes say ‘cook onion and garlic until translucent’ as though they have identical cooking times. Mine definitely don't: the garlic turns brown...
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...
Our Thursday group has four players. Three of us enjoy a little sabotage, but the fourth genuinely hates having their progress destroyed by another player. Cooperative games work, though we'd like something with individu...
Keep coming across this back pain device called SpinalSyn lately and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole reading about it. The more I read, the more interesting it seems, but I'm not sure how much of it is just ma...
We're building an internal dashboard for a dozen staff members. Mostly tables, filters and a few editable forms; no fancy animations. The backend already returns HTML for the rest of the application. A small SPA sounds a...
Dinner is chicken thighs, roasted vegetables and rice. Every part takes a different amount of time, so one thing always sits getting cold while another finishes. I'm finally trying to plan backward from when we want to e...
My small command-line project works, has basic tests and solves the problem I built it for. But I keep finding reasons to rewrite it: cleaner abstractions, prettier output, one more option. Three weeks later I've learned...
I read an odd, beautifully written science-fiction novel and loved it, but lists of ‘best sci-fi’ mostly suggest action-heavy series that don't sound similar at all. Maybe what I enjoyed wasn't the genre label but its la...
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