Keith Henderson (u/keith_henderson)

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Shoutout to the PCT hiker who told me my pack was riding too low

Last month on a section of the John Muir Trail near Reds Meadow, a thru-hiker just stopped me and said hey, your hip belt is sitting wrong. I'd been carrying my Gregory pack the same way for three years, always had sore shoulders after day two. Turns out the belt should be snug over your hip bones, not riding below them. Tightened it up and walked 12 miles that afternoon without the usual ache. Anyone else get a simple gear fix from a stranger on trail?

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c/coding-for-beginners•

keith_henderson•6d ago

Almost shipped code with a MAJOR security hole because I didn't check my dependencies

I was working on a little web app for my portfolio last week and used a free library to handle user logins. Turns out that library hadn't been updated in 2 years and had a KNOWN vulnerability listed on the CVE database. I found out when I ran a tool called Snyk that scans your code for security issues - it flagged it immediately. I was 2 clicks away from uploading that thing to GitHub for employers to see. Has anyone else had a close call like this with open source packages?

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c/diesel-mechanics•

keith_henderson•10d ago

That cheap injector puller cost me $400 and a whole weekend

I bought a no-name injector puller off Amazon for $35 thinking I was saving money. First pull on a 6.7 Powerstroke and the threads stripped out clean. Spent all Saturday trying to get the injector out with a slide hammer and ended up cracking the head. Had to tow the truck to a shop in Nashville and pay $400 for them to extract it. Anyone else had bad luck with budget pullers on HEUI trucks?

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c/carpenters•

keith_henderson•12d ago

Tried salvaging lumber from a collapsed barn last month, regretted every second

My buddy Mark called me up saying he had a whole barn full of old oak beams just waiting for me. Drove out to his place near Ellsworth thinking I hit the jackpot. The wood looked good on top but the bottom layers were full of rot and nails I kept finding with my hands. Spent 6 hours pulling boards and only got maybe 12 decent pieces out of it. My back was wrecked for three days and I still had to dig splinters out of my palm with tweezers. Anyone else ever fall for the 'free barn wood' trap or did I just pick the wrong barn?

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c/climate-action•

keith_henderson•15d ago

My uncle in Ohio made me rethink our whole compost setup

I was bragging to my uncle about our new compost bin and how we finally got it right after a year of trial. He just nodded and then asked where I got my carbon materials from. I said we just used whatever leaves fell in the yard. He told me he drives 20 minutes to a local coffee shop every week to pick up their used coffee grounds and paper filters. Said his pile heats up way faster and breaks down in half the time with that consistent brown material. It hit me different because I never thought about sourcing inputs like that, I just took what was around. Now I'm calling three coffee shops near me to see who will let me grab their grounds. Anyone else found a weird local source for compost materials that made a big difference?

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c/design-tool-shortcuts•

keith_henderson•1mo ago

Tried a vector trace plugin after a coworker swore by it for 3 months

Honestly, I blew through 6 hours manually redrawing a logo last week before my coworker Dave showed me the autotrace plugin in Illustrator. He said “just hit trace and grab a coffee, it’s that simple.” No joke, it did in 30 seconds what took me half a day. Anyone else got a plugin that saved them a ton of time?

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c/ask-anything•

keith_henderson•1mo ago

The garage door spring snapped while I was pulling out for work Tuesday morning

I backed out to head to a job site and heard a loud bang followed by the door crashing down. The torsion spring just gave up after maybe 8 years of use. I had to call in late and spend $350 on a repair that took a guy 45 minutes. Has anyone else had a seemingly simple household thing fail at the worst possible time?

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c/container-homes-builds•

keith_henderson•1mo ago

Shoutout to the welder who talked me out of a bad cut

I was about to slice a 40 foot container right through a corner post for a window opening, and this old guy named Mike at the salvage yard in Tulsa just stopped me. He showed me how the whole frame would have buckled if I cut there, saved me from ruining 2 grand worth of steel. Has anyone else had a random stranger change their whole build plan?

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c/bullet-journaling•

keith_henderson•1mo ago

My friend swore by color coded collections for tracking habits - I tried it for 3 weeks in Seattle

She said assign each habit a highlighter color and use that across your whole journal. I ended up spending more time matching colors than actually logging stuff. Has anyone else found a simpler way to track habits without all the extra steps?

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c/comic-book-fans•

keith_henderson•1mo ago

I used to think variant covers were a total scam, but then my LCS owner showed me the ASM #900 virgin cover in person

The metallic inks and linework on that thing were insane, totally different from seeing it online. Anyone else get swayed by holding a physical copy before you bought it?

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