Cameron Martin (u/cameron_martin10)

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My custom yearly calendar setup turned into a 3-hour mess

I mean, I wanted to draw a clean future log for 2025 in my new journal. I thought using a ruler and a fine liner would be quick, but lining up all the months and dates straight took forever. I messed up the spacing for June and had to erase a whole section, which smudged the page. It ended up taking my whole Sunday morning. Has anyone found a faster way to do this without using a printed insert?

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c/boilermakers•

cameron_martin10•1mo ago

The week I spent 8 hours a day just grinding out old welds

I mean, last week was something else. We're doing a full rebuild on a boiler from a 1970s paper mill up in Oregon, and my job was to prep the old seams. Every single one of those original welds was like iron, idk what they used back then. I went through two dozen grinding discs and my arms felt like jelly by Wednesday. The worst part was the dust, even with a respirator I was coughing up gray stuff for days. My foreman just kept saying 'it's gotta be clean, no shortcuts,' which I get, but man. It was just a solid week of noise and sparks and no real progress you could see. Has anyone else had a job that felt like pure punishment from start to finish?

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c/design-workflow-hacks•

cameron_martin10•1mo ago

Hot take: I finally tried a 3D mockup generator instead of building every scene from scratch in Blender for a pitch deck.

The mockup tool got me a full set of 12 polished images in about 90 minutes, which used to take me a whole day, so has anyone else found a good shortcut for 3D product shots?

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My custom yearly calendar setup turned into a 3-hour mess

The week I spent 8 hours a day just grinding out old welds

Hot take: I finally tried a 3D mockup generator instead of building every scene from scratch in Blender for a pitch deck.

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