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Wes Okafor in Night Class
What should Night Class teach next?
The ask board for autumn is open. Post what you want to learn, and whether you would be willing to teach something you learned recently.
2 replies · yesterday
Tess Halloway in Sourdough Sunday
My starter smells like nail polish. Is it finished?
Three weeks old, fed daily, and it has gone sharp and solvent-smelling since the weather turned. Before I throw it out — is this recoverable?
3 replies · yesterday
Dev Arriaga in Golden Hour Society
Shooting on a phone and being taken seriously
A third of this group shoots on a phone and they keep making the best frames of the night. A note for anyone who has been hesitating.
2 replies · yesterday
Emil Strand in Desk of One
What do you actually charge for a full day?
Real numbers only. The annual rate thread, reopened — this is the most useful thing this community does and it only works if people are specific.
3 replies · yesterday
Oz Brenner in The Long Way Home
Nine staircases — in what order?
Route planning for the September walk in the open, because the obvious order is the worst one and I want to be argued with.
2 replies · yesterday
Rosa Linde in Balcony Botanists
North-facing, fourth floor. What actually grows?
Pinning this. Five years of survey data, sorted by aspect, with the failures column included — because that is the half people need.
2 replies · 2 days ago
June Castellan in Margin Notes
Passed copy number seven has gone missing
Four years of annotations in one paperback, last seen heading toward Underhill. Not a crisis, but I would like it back.
2 replies · 2 days ago
Harriet Vance in Slow Mile Collective
Returning after eight months off. Where do I start?
The question we get most often, answered once properly so I can point people at it instead of retyping it every week.
2 replies · 3 days ago
Theo Mwangi in Basement Tape Club
How do you give a note that is actually useful?
The heard-before-changed rule is doing a lot of work at listening nights. Writing down why, because a few other communities have asked.
2 replies · 4 days ago
Maren Okonjo in The Kiln Club
The copper red from the July firing — full recipe
It was an accident, it has now been reproduced twice, and here is everything we know about why it worked.
1 reply · 5 days ago
Noor Tamimi in Saturday Shift
Three hours is the whole commitment. Please stop apologizing.
A note about the messages I keep receiving from people explaining why they missed a shift.
1 reply · 5 days ago
Nadia Fell in Tiny Machines
Power first. Always power.
Eight clinics in, here is the triage order that resolves about seven problems in ten before anyone opens a code editor.
1 reply · 6 days ago