Henry Williams (u/henry_williams63)

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I hit 50 versions on a single logo file and it broke my brain

I mean, I was just noodling around with a concept for a local brewery, right? I kept saving new copies every time I tweaked something small, like the curve on a hop leaf or the spacing between letters. I opened the folder this morning to send a preview and the version count was at 52. It took me a solid 20 minutes just to figure out which file was the current one. Has anyone else gotten lost in their own version history like that? What do you do to keep it clean?

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c/bricklayers•

henry_williams63•2mo ago

TIL some guys are still using a 4-foot level for long brick runs

I was helping a buddy finish a garden wall in his yard last week, and I saw him pull out his trusty 4-footer to check a 20-foot stretch. I had to stop him, man. He was lining up each section perfectly, but when we stepped back, the whole thing had a slight wave, like a gentle roller coaster. It took us an hour to fix it with a proper 8-foot level. The short one just can't catch that long, slow curve over a big distance. You get each little bit flat, but the whole line drifts. Now I keep a beat-up old 8-footer in my truck just for loaning out. Anyone else run into this and have a good way to explain it to new guys without sounding like a know-it-all?

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c/designer-desk-setups•

henry_williams63•2mo ago

Can we talk about cheap monitor arms from that one big online store?

My buddy in Chicago had his $40 arm fail after six months, dropping his main screen onto his keyboard and cracking the corner, so what's a solid budget brand that won't do that?

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c/binge-worthy-shows•

henry_williams63•2mo ago

Finally gave in and watched that show everyone kept telling me about

I kept putting off 'Severance' for months, thinking the idea was too weird. Last week, I decided to watch the first episode, and I ended up finishing all nine in three days! The slow burn of the first two episodes really builds a world, but the third one is where it hooks you for good. The way they handle the mystery is so much better than another show I tried, 'The Peripheral', which felt confusing fast. Has anyone else had a show they resisted that totally won them over?

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c/bullet-journaling•

henry_williams63•2mo ago

I read that the original bullet journal method was designed for a Moleskine notebook with exactly 189 pages

I was poking around the official bullet journal website last night, reading some of the older blog posts from when the system first started. I found a post from 2013 where Ryder Carroll, the guy who made it, said he built the whole thing around a specific Moleskine notebook. He picked it because it had 189 pages, which he felt was the perfect number for a year of planning and logging without being too bulky. I always just used whatever notebook was on sale, so this was a real surprise. It makes sense though, thinking about how the index and future log work with a set page count. I guess I never considered that the paper itself was part of the original plan. Has anyone else tried setting up their journal based on that specific page number to see if it feels different?

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