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A corner of my yard gets long bright afternoons in summer and almost no direct sunlight in winter because the neighboring building casts a much longer shadow. Garden plans based on one sunny photograph are misleading. I'...
I like photographing cities in bad weather, but I do not want to carry a full rain setup for an afternoon walk. For light rain I usually keep the camera under my jacket between shots and carry a small microfiber cloth pl...
I have two raised beds built and filled at the same time. One grows normally. In the other, plants are smaller and the soil surface stays wet longer after watering. They get almost the same sun. The weaker bed may be a l...
One low-margin item accounts for a lot of first-time customer purchases. On its own it barely earns anything once packaging and staff time are counted. But people who buy it sometimes return for higher-margin products, s...
The fungus gnats are back in my pothos and philodendron pots. I let the top couple of centimeters dry out and stopped leaving water in the saucers. Adult flies disappeared for a week, then returned. The lower soil still...
There's cooked roast chicken in the fridge, and I'm tired of turning it into another sandwich that tastes like Sunday dinner reheated. The meat is already seasoned and a little dry around the edges. I'm considering shred...
I have a small frontend calling an API I control. Locally, the frontend runs on one localhost port and the API on another and the browser request succeeds. Once I deploy the frontend, the same request is blocked by CORS....
My partner and I want more two-player games, but pure head-to-head duels turn our evenings into silent concentration contests. We like making decisions and teasing each other about them; we don't love attacking one anoth...
My tomato seedlings look green and healthy but have stretched into thin stems that lean toward the window. They're probably too far from the light. I can move a lamp closer, but I'm unsure whether the current seedlings w...
I understand the basic idea that a microwave makes water molecules move, but I can't reconcile it with what happens in my kitchen. Sometimes a bowl is almost too hot to touch while the food has a cold spot in the middle....
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