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Saustrup @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 18:55 UTC

I'm between clients at the moment, for the first time in the 11 years I've been consulting. Well, technically a contract with a new client was signed before I left the previous one, I just very explicitly needed a little time off to reset.

It's just one week, and I've been keeping busy. Early hours have been spent digging into the finer details of designing and building a self hosted CI/CD solution based on #WoodpeckerCI, #Forgejo and #Harbor running on #Kubernetes.

Evenings are spent on the couch, watching reruns of #Farscape or #DeathInParadise.

I between? Well, we bought a house from the late #60s and decided to make a new bathroom on the second floor. We're getting the pros to pour a new heated concrete floor, but I'm doing a lot of the other stuff. Right now, that means rebuilding the ceiling and fixing electricity. It's a super messy, sweaty and itchy job, but very fulfilling.

I'm calling this my #metalhygiene week.

#diy #homeimprovement

#woodpeckerci #forgejo #harbor #kubernetes #farscape #deathinparadise

Good News Post - Growing Positive Young People [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 12:46 UTC

Quality Shutters, Made in the UK — Now With Klarna

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/quality-shutters-made-in-the-uk-now-with-klarna/

#business #homeimprovement #blindsbymark #homedecor

Good News Post - Growing Positive Young People [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 12:46 UTC

Quality Shutters, Made in the UK — Now With Klarna

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/quality-shutters-made-in-the-uk-now-with-klarna/

#business #homeimprovement #blindsbymark #homedecor

Good News Post - Growing Positive Young People [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 12:46 UTC

Quality Shutters, Made in the UK — Now With Klarna

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/quality-shutters-made-in-the-uk-now-with-klarna/

#homedecor #blindsbymark #homeimprovement #business

Good News Post - Growing Positive Young People [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 12:46 UTC

Quality Shutters, Made in the UK — Now With Klarna

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/quality-shutters-made-in-the-uk-now-with-klarna/

#business #homeimprovement #blindsbymark #homedecor

Gay Curmudgeon @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 13:55 UTC

Sanding and re-finishing the attic floor of my Freedom Avenue house was one of the largest 'Do-It-Yourself' projects I've tackled. 1995. #doityourself #doityourselflproject #doityourselfprojects #homeproject #homeprojects #homefixup #homeimprovement #homeimprovementideas #victorianhomes #colonialhomes #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #oldhouses #vintage #library #book #books #bookcollection #bookcollections #1990s #twentiethcentury #gauguin #painting #paintings

#doityourself #doityourselflproject #doityourselfprojects #homeproject #homeprojects #homefixup

All for Gardening @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 18:07 UTC

This Bare Front Yard Became a Sunset Garden Walkway https://www.allforgardening.com/1836367/this-bare-front-yard-became-a-sunset-garden-walkway/ #BeforeAndAfter #CurbAppeal #CurbAppealIdeas #FrontYardGarden #FrontYardLandscape #FrontYardLandscapes #FrontYardLandscaping #FrontYardLandscapingIdeas #FrontYardMakeover #FrontYard? #GardenLights #GardenWalkway #HomeImprovement #landscaping #SatisfyingTransformation #shorts #WalkwayIdeas

#beforeandafter #curbappeal #curbappealideas #frontyardgarden #frontyardlandscape #frontyardlandscapes

All for Gardening @[email protected] · 2026-03-15 · 22:37 UTC

A Boring Front Yard Turned Into Beautiful Garden Bed https://www.allforgardening.com/1657762/a-boring-front-yard-turned-into-beautiful-garden-bed/ #AestheticGarden #BackyardProjects #FrontYardGarden #FrontYardLandscape #FrontYardLandscapes #FrontYardLandscapingIdeas #FrontYardMakeover #FrontYard? #GardenBedDiy #GardenTransformation #HomeImprovement #HowToBuildAGardenBed #LandscapingForBeginners #LandscapingTimelapse #ProfessionalLandscapingDIY

#aestheticgarden #backyardprojects #frontyardgarden #frontyardlandscape #frontyardlandscapes #frontyardlandscapingideas

C. @[email protected] · 2025-05-30 · 20:33 UTC

This turned out to be kind of bizarre. There was an extremely slow seep from one of the kitchen sink shutoffs. Fair enough, the house is 40 years old, and it dates to when it was built. But it was one of those crappy gate-valve shutoffs, which I hate - they always leak, eventually - spend a few extra bucks and get ball valves. But no new-housing contractor is going to pay *anything* extra, just eats into the profit from the job bid...

It was seeping from the valve ... stem? Shaft? Dunno what to call it - the threaded rod that moves the gate open and closed when you turn the handle. It was seeping like a drop every few minutes, through the packing around that stem.

With the cabinet doors open, there was enough air circulation that it never accumulated anywhere - we're a dry climate, and evaporation took care of it. With the cabinet doors shut, drops would occasionally run down the pipe to the cabinet floor.

#ItWorksWhenYoureLooking #plumbing #heisenbug #HomeImprovement #DIY