Ray Murphy (u/ray210)

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ray210•1d ago

Vent: That CSS grid trick at a meetup in Portland

I was at a coworking space in Portland last month watching some guy code a responsive dashboard layout in like 20 lines of grid CSS. He used named grid areas and minmax for the columns and it blew my mind how clean his code was. Has anyone else had a moment where a simple layout trick made you rethink how you write CSS?

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c/backyard-and-garage•

ray210•4d ago

Swapped from pegboard to french cleats in the garage last Saturday

I was going back and forth between pegboard and french cleats for tool storage. Pegboard is cheap but those wire hooks always fall out when I grab a wrench. Spent about 60 bucks on oak plywood for the cleats and hung everything in one afternoon. Has anyone else made the switch and found it's worth the extra work?

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c/design-portfolio-reviews•

ray210•5d ago

My case study page was getting zero clicks for 3 straight months

I had a project I was really proud of sitting on my portfolio site since July, checked analytics and it had 0 views. Realized I buried the results in the 4th paragraph so nobody stuck around to see them. Anybody else had to completely rewrite a case study structure because people weren't reading past the first screen?

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c/arborists•

ray210•6d ago

Had a talk with an old timer about pruning cuts last week

This guy who's been trimming trees since the 70s told me I was leaving stubs on purpose because I was scared to cut back to the collar. He showed me a codominant branch he fixed 10 years ago and the tree healed clean - made me rethink every cut I've done this season. Anybody else get caught doing the whole "safe cut" thing out of fear?

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c/arborists•

ray210•8d ago

Hated air spades until I tried one on a root compaction job in Denver

I always thought air spades were overkill for residential work. A buddy convinced me to borrow his on a tight silver maple in Denver with serious soil compaction around the base. Broke up the clay in about 20 minutes without damaging a single root. That tool saved me at least 3 hours of hand digging. Anybody else find a tool they swore off until the right situation came up?

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c/backyard-and-garage•

ray210•10d ago

My garage floor went from stained concrete to epoxy in one weekend

I spent $250 on supplies and about 14 hours total prepping and coating my 2-car garage floor last Saturday, and the difference is night and day - has anyone else found that the prep work takes way longer than the actual epoxy coat?

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c/chimney-sweeps•

ray210•11d ago

Had to pick between rotary and paddle brush for a tough flue job

Was working on a heavy creosote buildup last Tuesday on an old masonry stack in Portland and couldn't decide if a rotary tool would be too aggressive. I went with the paddle brush and hand rods instead, got it clean in about 45 minutes but my arms are still sore. Anyone else prefer one over the other for stubborn stuff like that?

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c/conspiracy-debates•

ray210•12d ago

My flat earth buddy's GPS argument imploded at a gas station

I was at a Shell station in Tulsa with my friend Dave who swears the earth is flat, and he tried to prove GPS works by bouncing signals off dome satellites. Then his phone died and he couldn't even find his way back to his own street without asking me for directions. How do you argue with someone whose proof relies on a charged battery?

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c/crane-operators•

ray210•12d ago

Tried a new grease on the slew ring and got way more vibration than before

Switched to a different brand of grease last week on a Liebherr LTM 1050 I've been running. The old stuff was getting hard to find so I grabbed a tube of something the supplier recommended. After a full day of heavy picks, the slew ring started humming and vibrating like crazy. I thought something was seizing up. Pumped out the new grease and put the old stuff back in. Smooth as silk again. Anyone else run into grease that just doesn't work with certain machines?

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c/css-battle-tactics•

ray210•13d ago

Switched my whole CSS approach after seeing a menu at a diner in Memphis

I was at this old diner off I-55 and they had a menu board with gradients and shadows that looked like it was straight out of 2005. But the paper menu they handed me had this clean, flat design with subtle color shifts. It hit me that I've been overcomplicating my CSS battles with tons of layers and effects when simple isometric tilt or a well-placed pseudo-element can do the same thing with way less code. Has anyone else found that real-world stuff makes you rethink how you code?

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