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Post by tomcam »

js2 wrote: post #207
tomcam wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL about corny kegs. They look like they last forever and aren’t that expensive. This will be a fun project. How will you get refills?

Refills of CO2 can be had at any local home brew supply shop, some local breweries, airgas, etc. The corny keg I'll just fill with filtered tap water. It can be made continuous with one of these, but I'm not sure I have the water pressure for this: https://www.morebeer.com/products/continuous-soda-carbonator...

Oh, so there is a separate CO2 container. I didn’t know it worked that way.

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Post by mettamage »

blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

On a sobriety challenge myself until 10 aug 2023. I used to be a social drinker. I’m doing this to get a solid basis in being sober. It allows me to say no more easily in later years

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Post by robocat »

Lio wrote: post #242

It's raining hard here. I've just discovered our roof is leaking. It looks like some of the concreting that held the tiles up has come loose and a large section will need to be replaced. As I hate heights and know nothing about roofing, so I'm going to have to get a professional in to fix it. This is going to really hurt financially. Not something I'd bother whinging about here normally but this seems like the place…

I had a serious (buckets) leak when raining and wind was an Easterly. Put off doing anything for years, because I lacked money to pay someone. Anyway, I finally just cut a hole in the gib/drywall when the leak was happening the other day and luckily found the problem that way.

I guess I am saying, give it a go if you can, or alternatively try and do part of the work yourself. Watch some YouTube videos, or ask the advice of friends. In my case I have purchased and put up a cheap scaffolding tower (avoiding one big part of the expense of paying someone else), and I am getting an acquaintance to actually fix the problem.

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Post by pelasaco »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #266

I’m loving raising my new kid. Funny enough, one of her favorite books right now is Hello Hello by a Brenden Wenzel. I love the way she’ll carry it over to me and crawl into my lap, waiting for me to begin, turning each page for me, how she says hi to the animals in its pages. I don’t care how many times she wants to repeat it, watching her learn and enjoy reading is absolutely delightful. I feel like I’m giving her…

Raising kids are awesome. I had such fun doing that, while they were little. One great habit to develop is to read books with them. Me and my wife did it daily until they were 11, we read to them, then later we used to read with them (we read one page, they some paragraphs).. was such great moments, daily after a long day to lay in bed with them and read, read, read... Thanks that both kids are great students and have seldom a mobile in their hand, but books :)

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Post by MandieD »

jamesknelson wrote: post #8

Thank you so much for this post, and Hello from Tokyo! I'm currently working on an old fashioned website editing app, with a UI styled after today's note taking apps. I'm hoping that being able to work on my blog across devices without an internet connection - and without a like button or analytics script - will help me focus on what I want to write, instead of focusing on what will "sell". I'm thinking of putting an…

Looking forward to trying it out when you’re ready to share it.

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Post by lachlan_gray »

I want a computational theory of life. I don’t know what it will look like, but I think we have everything we need to find it. I’m fully convinced that the process that leads to diverse, complex organisms is transparent and that we are finally reaching the sufficient context to notice it.

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Post by 3yanlis1bos »

Hey, this post made me remember a feeling that I had long forgotten. Thank you.

I write short stories in Turkish. I wanted to become a skilled writer ever since I can remember. So I started to keep a dairy. I have been writing since -give or take- two years, nearly every day. I also post some short stories of mine, when I have some.

Best part of it is when go back in time and actually like some of things you have written a long time ago. It is common for me to dislike my own writing so that rare feeling gives me a lot of strength to continue.

Hope this gives some of you out there some inspiration and I appreciate any advice/ideas you might have!

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Post by frans »

chrisrickard wrote: post #100

Hello from Melbourne, Australia. This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer. I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next. One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could ref…

Great story and best of luck with your launch. Are you part of any online communities to share your progress? I am currently a member of MicroConf [1] and getting a lot of help from it.

- [1] https://microconf.com/

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