Overheard a guy at my LCS say he only reads trades, never single issues

I was flipping through the dollar bin at my local shop in San Diego last Saturday and this older collector was telling the clerk he hasn't bought a single issue in 15 years. Just waits for the collected editions. It got me thinking - I've got like 4 long boxes full of floppies from the past 2 years that I'll probably never re-read. But there's something about that Wednesday morning pull list ritual I'd miss. Anyone else debated switching to trades only, or tried it and went back?

Reading an old manual from 1999 made me think

Changed my mind about using a fish tape for every drop

I always thought a fish tape was the only way to go for pulling cable through finished walls, but last week I had a job in an old house with plaster and lath. My boss said to try a fiberglass push rod instead, and honestly I was sure it would snap. I used a 12-foot rod from Klein and it went through a tricky corner way faster than my steel tape ever did. The flex let me feel around the blockage without getting stuck. Has anyone else switched tools for old construction like that?

I always thought a 4-foot level was fine for vinyl plank, but a 6-foot one showed me dips I couldn't feel.

Unpopular opinion: people use way too many colors in their palettes

Honestly, I keep seeing folks post these sets with like 8 or 9 colors for a simple website. It's a mess. I worked on a project for a bakery in Portland last month, and the client's old site had 7 main colors. We cut it to 3, and the bounce rate dropped by 15% in a week. More colors just make things look busy and confuse people. How do you decide when to stop adding another shade?

I always thought you needed a crazy expensive setup to get good shots of the Orion Nebula. A guy at the local astronomy club in Boise showed me his pictures taken with a $400 DSLR and a basic tracker, and they blew my mind.

Why does nobody talk about the 'active' state on form buttons being just a color change?

Honestly, I just watched a user with red-green color blindness at my office in Chicago try to submit a form three times because the only sign the button was working was it turned from green to a slightly different green.