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christopherkim•1mo ago

Showerthought: I thought my setup for a weird aluminum part was fine, but a tolerance call from a client in Boise had me chasing my tail for 8 hours.

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1mo ago

My old nemesis and the new bar feeder at the shop in Tulsa

Trust the machine on this one.

7mo ago

Just realized I chose the wrong paper stock for a 500-run event program

Last year we printed a thousand menus on that beautiful, slick 130lb gloss. The first week, three servers told me customers couldn't mark their changes with the golf pencils we provided. The ink just pooled and slid. You get so focused on color pop you forget people actually have to use the thing. It's a lesson in balancing looks with real world handling.

7mo ago

Shoutout to my old boss who convinced me to skip the vapor barrier under my slab, a decision that cost me over $2k in moisture damage repairs last spring.

Man, what did your contractor say when you showed him the damage?

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7mo ago

Can we talk about how mute buttons on video calls set us up for embarrassment?

Ugh, my buddy wasted an hour on a report because the stupid "save" icon was a tiny floppy disk next to a bigger download arrow. He clicked the wrong one and lost everything.

7mo ago

A user told me my green/red status icons were useless to them

Totally agree with @keith_thompson on this. Ran into the same problem with a traffic light system on a report. Swapped to check, dash, and X for good, okay, and bad. The number of support tickets about it dropped to zero overnight. You really have to assume someone using your stuff can't see color differences. Icons with distinct shapes are just way more reliable than color alone.

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Showerthought: I thought my setup for a weird aluminum part was fine, but a tolerance call from a client in Boise had me chasing my tail for 8 hours.

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