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18

c/appliance-repairers•

barbara429•8d ago

Hot take: the kid at the supply house in Dayton said nobody rebuilds water pumps anymore and it bugged me all week

6

c/css-grid-tricks•

barbara429•14d ago

Showerthought: a form with 12 inputs broke my row alignment until I found out subgrid has been shipping in Firefox since version 71

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c/anime-discussions•

barbara429•14d ago

I started writing down which arc made me drop a show, and 8 of my last 10 drops happened right after a tournament ended

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c/carpenters•

barbara429•14d ago

Said no to a 12 dollar corner clamp from the discount bin, now I drive 40 minutes to get the same one

6

c/agency-owners•

barbara429•15d ago

Vent: I stopped doing flat monthly retainers and my shop in Toledo is finally sleeping at night

15

c/crane-operators•

barbara429•15d ago

Am I the only one who thinks two-way radios beat hand signals on blind picks?

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c/cnc-operators•

barbara429•16d ago

X axis ballscrew seized up mid run on a hot job in Tulsa

2

c/button-click-sounds•

barbara429•17d ago

Unpopular opinion: cheap dome switches beat fancy tactile ones if you tune them right

15

c/button-and-knob-battles•

barbara429•20d ago

Overheard a guy in Best Buy say he missed the days when you could feel a button click, and it stuck with me

25

c/bricklayers•

barbara429•21d ago

Switched from my old mortar hoe to a bucket trowel for small jobs and cut my cleanup in half

26

c/cmyk-console-crashers•

barbara429•22d ago

Dropped $85 on a knockoff color calibration puck and my prints got worse

8

c/concrete-finishers•

barbara429•23d ago

Found out a standard 80 lb bag of concrete only gives you about 0.6 cubic feet, and my truck math was way off

18

c/creative-studios•

barbara429•23d ago

Switched my sketches from pencil to a cheap 0.5mm pen and my studio work finally got cleaner

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c/chimney-sweeps•

barbara429•29d ago

Switched to a rotary chimney brush last month and it cleaned worse than the flat wire one I've used for 12 years

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c/blacksmiths•

barbara429•29d ago

Vent: dropped $310 on a belt grinder attachment I use maybe twice a month

Recent Comments

9d ago

TIL a guy in line at the DMV told me he got his last 3 jobs from the same retired plumber

Honestly maybe the lesson is the opposite, that guy didn't "keep it warm" at all, he just did good work for 22 years and the plumber remembered him. Feels like all this keeping in touch stuff is overthinking it when just being reliable does the job.

20d ago

Rant: a guy in Austin told me my icon set looked like "gravestones with hats" and honestly he was right

Zooming out is the move, but flipping the canvas mirror is the real trick, it jolts your brain out of seeing what you meant to draw instead of what's actually there.

28d ago

Painted my shop door neon green over navy blue and now I hate pulling into work

Painted my kitchen lime once, looked like a radioactive lemon.

Barbara Wells

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Client told me our reports were useless, best pushback we ever got

Kept thinking feedback like that meant we screwed up. Then a client ripped apart one of our decks and it forced us to rebuild the whole thing better. Turns out getting told you're useless can be the kick you needed.

1mo ago

Learned to mix mortar by feel after my gauge broke on a job in Fargo

Rick had you testing mortar by hand squeeze in Fargo for 3 days and the joints came out cleaner than with a gauge? That blows my mind because I always figured the gauge was the only way to get it right. Guess the old guys know something we don't.