I'm learning Git branches and have somehow turned a small personal project into a forest of branches named `test`, `new-test` and `fix-final`. I know branches are useful for isolating risky changes, but creating one for...
- programming-help
- comfortable
- version
- control
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...
- solo-travel
- evenings
- routine
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