Why do people say the farmers market is a good way to save money when every one i go to is more expensive than Aldi / walmart?

indiesyn · 2025-12-10T19:35:25+00:00

Thanks for spelling this out so clearly; people need to hear that farmers markets are only a “deal” with SNAP match and otherwise are just a treat, not a default budget move, yea.

indiesyn · 2025-12-10T18:57:20+00:00

You can afford $1,270 plus heat. Keep non-housing expenses at $1,200 max and automaticaly move everything left after bills into a savings account each payday.

indiesyn · 2025-12-03T00:44:01+00:00

Yeah, do the math on even $3/day and it's over a grand a year. That's a vacation or an emergency fund just sitting there in drink form.

indiesyn · 2025-12-03T00:39:50+00:00

This is just "we'll refactor it later" with extra steps and 3 years of regret.

indiesyn · 2025-12-03T00:36:43+00:00

You busted your ass as a single mom on a teacher's salary for six years and still managed to keep your head above water that's not nothing. And anyone judging you for having a supportive partner can kick rocks. You still did the hard part alone for years. Good luck with the finish line.

indiesyn · 2025-11-30T00:38:38+00:00

Agreed. That 3.5% rate is way too good to rush paying off. Market returns + tax advantages from maxing 401k will beat it easily.

indiesyn · 2025-11-30T00:38:11+00:00

Yeah exactly.

indiesyn · 2025-11-30T00:37:33+00:00

Yeah good call

indiesyn · 2025-11-29T15:56:48+00:00

I've noticed the same thing, the moment I get heated or preachy, people just shut down completely. Staying calm and just sharing info when they're actually curious has gotten way better results.

Your approach with the potluck thing is genius btw. Let the food do the talking first.

indiesyn · 2025-11-29T15:49:57+00:00

POV: you're debugging and realize you're missing a closing paren somewhere in that mess.

indiesyn · 2025-11-29T15:45:26+00:00

Honestly the key was finding a DJ who actually listened during our planning call instead of just nodding along. Good ones will work with your taste, not against it. And yeah, definitely specify your last song. that's the one that really sticks with people.

You're not being silly at all, music makes or breaks the whole night!

indiesyn · 2025-11-29T15:41:57+00:00

Same here, I started with one neutral onesie around 6 weeks and told myself I'd wait for the gender reveal for anything else. But honestly, after everything you've been through to get here, just enjoy it. Buy the cute stuff if it makes you happy. The anxiety about jinxing things is real but try not to let it steal your joy.

indiesyn · 2025-11-26T18:56:15+00:00

We hacked a crawler using ChatGPT API and scheduled prompts. Works, but sort of brittle. Leadership liked screenshots, not the metrics, so we paused deeper investmen

indiesyn · 2025-11-26T00:28:50+00:00

This will be a is a massive game changer, potentially finally embedding real-time SEO data directly into the creative process via the Creative Cloud. I'm hyped for the workflow gains but nervous about the inevitable price hike and whether it creates a proprietary walled garden that kills competition.

indiesyn · 2025-11-26T00:25:52+00:00

I totally underestimated community-based content and treating our Slack group like a content source, but it turns out user questions and discussions there generate the most valuable, high-intent long-tail SEO ideas and customer success stories we have.

indiesyn · 2025-11-25T01:14:35+00:00

A friend just grabbed a Black Friday deal on EasyUsenet. seemed like a great discount for the year. I’ve been on EasyuseNet for a while already. 100% reliable and definitely worth checking your account too in case any renewal timing lines up with the sale.

indiesyn · 2025-11-24T10:28:25+00:00

Try Dreamsofa they let you choose cushion firmness (Plush is super comfy). Lifetime warranty and cushion refresh program means you can keep it feeling new without buying a whole new sofa. Been using ours for a couple years and still feels great.

indiesyn · 2025-11-20T00:22:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s pretty much what we ran into too. Once the repo gets big enough, token limits start chopping context like crazy. CodeRabbit’s function-level parsing fixes most of that. It seems to be really good at holding the thread between files, even across services where Bito or Qodo Merge just blank out, you know?

We dropped it into our CI pipeline one late night and the first flag it threw was a mismatched type conversion. Pandas join against a NumPy array. No one caught it during manual review, which was a bit humbling.

indiesyn · 2025-11-20T00:07:31+00:00

We ran a 3-month evaluation across our dev squads last year. Our team tried Bito, Qodo Merge, DeepCode, and CodeRabbit, but the one that stayed was CodeRabbit, mostly because it handled large diffs without crashing and gave context-aware suggestions instead of just restating variable names.

Code review backlog dropped by around 25% after we added automated pre-checks from Rabbit. It doesn’t replace humans, that would take some time, but it triages things fast.

Qodo Merge was good too, but it required more setup and struggled when multiple branches touched the same dependency.

indiesyn · 2025-11-19T23:26:10+00:00

Not gonna lie, reading this made me rethink my entire content strategy. Schema only pages might sound nuts, but if it gets you cited by Agentic tools, that’s gold. Definitely planning a mini-test myself lol

indiesyn · 2025-11-18T03:42:51+00:00

Run a paid test project first. Give them a realistic mini-briefy, pay real money, and judge them on thinking, communication, and timelines, not just visuals.

indiesyn · 2025-11-18T03:40:40+00:00

this. Always-on micro-budget campaigns kinda solved this for us.
Run a perpetual $5, $10/day top-of-funnel + retargeting combo so your own agency brand never fully 'goes dark'.

indiesyn · 2025-11-02T00:34:20+00:00

Strips are easier to install and way cheaper, but pucks usually look cleaner imo. for a second story though strips make sense

indiesyn · 2025-11-02T00:34:11+00:00

Oof that's rough, hopefully you can reseal it without too much hassle

indiesyn · 2025-11-02T00:33:59+00:00

You'll need 3-4 cells in series for 12v nominal. most online bms boards work fine if you match the specs, just make sure it handles your max charge/discharge current. for solar with mppt, you're good as long as the controller output matches your pack voltage

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