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Oct 26

What a dog or cat really costs: year one, every year after, and the vet bill nobody budgets

#discuss #productivity #beginners #career

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Oct 26

Recipe cost per serving: unit conversion without lying about cups vs grams

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

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Oct 26

The 52-week savings challenge, solved for any goal (and two JavaScript date bugs)

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

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Oct 26

Truck, container or movers? What a move really costs, plus the bills nobody quotes

#discuss #productivity #beginners #career

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Oct 26

What a baby's first year really costs, split into the three buckets you can plan for

#discuss #productivity #beginners #career

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Oct 26

Debt snowball vs avalanche: settling it with a 40-line JavaScript simulation

#javascript #webdev #beginners #tutorial

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Oct 26

What your car really costs per mile (the line most people leave out)

#productivity #beginners #javascript #tutorial

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Oct 26

How to calculate your freelance hourly rate backwards from take-home pay

#freelance #career #javascript #productivity

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Oct 26

How to check the 50/30/20 rule in Excel or Google Sheets (with formulas)

#excel #spreadsheets #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 26

Reading 3D printer G-code in the browser: slicer comment formats and a price calculator with no upload

#javascript #3dprinting #webdev #tutorial

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Oct 26

Christmas gift budget in a spreadsheet: per-person totals, a late-package alert, and the formulas

#excel #googlesheets #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

Generating a mirror-twin line puzzle: pair-aware pruning and a separator that was secretly a cell

#javascript #gamedev #algorithms #puzzle

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Oct 25

Your Real Hourly as a Delivery Driver: Spreadsheet Formulas for Gas, Mileage and Tax

#spreadsheet #excel #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

How to Price Resale Items So You Actually Hit Your Profit (Excel and Google Sheets)

#spreadsheet #excel #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

What does a 3D print really cost? Spreadsheet formulas for pricing prints

#3dprinting #excel #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

Building a printable invoice from a table in Excel and Google Sheets (no FILTER, no macros)

#excel #spreadsheet #freelance #productivity

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Oct 25

Spreadsheet formulas for a landlord rent roll (that handles early and late rent)

#excel #spreadsheet #productivity #realestate

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Oct 25

Generating daily path puzzles with exactly one solution (backbite, parity pruning and clue minimization)

#kotlin #android #algorithms #gamedev

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Oct 25

Quarterly estimated taxes in a spreadsheet: uneven IRS periods, year-to-date SUMIFS and the 92.35% rule

#excel #spreadsheets #freelancing #productivity

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Oct 25

What Etsy actually takes from a sale, and the spreadsheet formulas to price around it

#etsy #spreadsheet #excel #smallbusiness

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Oct 25

Turning a weekly meal plan into an aisle-sorted grocery list with plain spreadsheet formulas

#excel #spreadsheets #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

A seating chart that fills itself: TEXTJOIN, SMALL+ROW tie-breakers and date-relative checklists in a spreadsheet

#excel #spreadsheets #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

Auto-categorizing bank transactions and simulating a debt snowball with plain spreadsheet formulas

#excel #spreadsheet #productivity #tutorial

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Oct 25

A 3D-printable folding chair-height stool: knees, gravity locks and a seat contour in Python

#3dprinting #python #cad #diy

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Oct 25

Growing a coral reef desk organizer with signed distance functions in numpy

#3dprinting #python #procedural #cad

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Oct 25

Modelling a mimic chest dice box in Python: interlocking fangs and a filament hinge

#3dprinting #python #dnd #cad

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Oct 25

A signed distance function for a snail shell (log spiral) that became a 3D printed planter

#showdev #3dprinting #python #math

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Oct 25

Growing fake tree rings in numpy: a 3D printed coaster where no two match

#showdev #3dprinting #python #numpy

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Oct 25

The moon always shows the same face, so my 3D printed moon phases do too (Python SDF)

#showdev #3dprinting #python #tutorial

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Oct 25

One sine wave makes a true over-under celtic knot (3D printable, Python + manifold3d)

#showdev #3dprinting #python #tutorial

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Oct 24

The Tusi couple: 8 beads in straight lines that roll as a circle (3D printable, Python)

#showdev #python #3dprinting #math

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Oct 24

A true over-under Celtic knot and tree-ring coasters in Python (3D printable)

#python #3dprinting #math #numpy

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Oct 24

Four 3D-printable creatures from Python signed distance functions (bark, scutes, tentacles, bones)

#showdev #python #3dprinting #procedural

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Oct 24

The Tusi couple in Python: 8 beads in straight lines that roll as a circle

#python #math #3dprinting #geometry

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Oct 24

What I learned listing my first STL files on Cults3D (before any sale)

#3dprinting #beginners #sidehustle #makers

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Oct 24

Generate print-in-place flexi toys with Python and manifold3d

#python #3dprinting #tutorial #opensource

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Oct 24

Print-in-place gimbal rings in Python: cone pins that never fuse (manifold3d)

#python #3dprinting #tutorial #cad

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Oct 24

3 print-in-place animals: tongue-flick frog, flexi axolotl and flexi octopus

#3dprinting #python #stl #makers

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Oct 23

Cut a spider web into a 3D-printable bowl with Python (manifold3d)

#python #3dprinting #tutorial #halloween

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Oct 23

Carve a jack-o'-lantern in Python with signed distance functions (manifold3d)

#python #3dprinting #tutorial #halloween

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Oct 23

4 holiday 3D print sets you can print this week (place cards, coasters, cutters)

#3dprinting #diy #christmas #maker

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Oct 23

Hyperbolic tiling in Python: draw Escher's Poincare disc and 3D print it

#python #3dprinting #math #tutorial

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Oct 23

Gosper curve in Python: a space-filling L-system ornament for 3D printing

#python #3dprinting #math #tutorial

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Oct 23

Penrose tiling in Python: generate a 3D-printable aperiodic ornament

#python #3dprinting #math #tutorial

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Oct 23

Generate 3D-printable ornaments in Python: torus knots and golden-angle petals

#python #3dprinting #maker #tutorial

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Oct 23

7 Christmas 3D Prints to Start Now (Advent Calendar, Ornaments, Cookie Cutters)

#3dprinting #diy #christmas #maker

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Oct 23

3D Print a Reusable Advent Calendar: 24 Boxes, Settings and Time Budget

#3dprinting #diy #christmas #maker

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Oct 23

How to 3D Print Cookie Cutters That Actually Work (Settings + Free Recipe)

#3dprinting #diy #christmas #beginners

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Oct 23

Plan a Week of Dinners in 15 Minutes (and Stop Ordering Takeout)

#productivity #budgeting #lifestyle #beginners

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Oct 23

Calibrate a 3D Printer in the Right Order: An 8-Step Checklist

#3dprinting #klipper #maker #tutorial

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Oct 23

A 10-Minute Cleaning Routine That Actually Sticks (With a Weekly Focus Schedule)

#productivity #lifestyle #home #beginners

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Oct 23

How to Plan Holiday Spending on Paper: A 20-Minute Method

#productivity #personalfinance #budgeting #christmas

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Oct 23

Document Your Home Lab in One Hour: A Simple Structure That Works

#homelab #selfhosted #linux #networking

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Oct 23

Print Christmas Ornaments in 20 Minutes: Settings and Six Flat Designs

#3dprinting #christmas #maker #diy

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Oct 23

9 Useful 3D Prints Under 3 Hours: Settings, Sizes and Tips

#3dprinting #maker #diy #hardware

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Oct 23

52-week savings challenge: the numbers, three easier versions and a printable tracker

#personalfinance #money #productivity #beginners

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Oct 23

Find Minecraft server lag with LagLens and cap it with CapLimit

#minecraft #java #fabric #devops

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Oct 23

Special Mobs Revived: 148 monster variants on Fabric 26.2

#minecraft #gamedev #java #fabric

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Oct 23

Tale of Kingdoms: The Shattered Crown, an RPG campaign mod for Minecraft 26.2

#minecraft #gamedev #java #rpg

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Oct 23

Fallen Star: rare starfall nights and a boss fight in Minecraft 26.2

#minecraft #gamedev #java #fabric

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