That salt shaker trick is genius, I’ve been using a old spice jar for years myself.

Doesn't the cheap stuff also push those reliable brands to get lazy if no one bothers trying the new things? @hugo37 seems to think we just go in circles, but I'd argue the competition from cheap gear is exactly what keeps the good stuff honest.

47 blues is honestly rookie numbers compared to what we found when we ran our palette audit in November. We had 89 distinct gray values spread across 23 components and nobody could agree on what "dark gray" even meant. The worst part was that the design system docs said the palette had 12 grays, but the actual Framer components were pulling values from hex codes that designers had just typed in manually over Slack messages. I think the real issue is that tokens become invisible to people after a few months and everyone starts treating them like suggestions instead of rules. That audit report data can be really harsh but its the only thing that actually forces people to clean up their mess.

Jumped in to say this happens way more than people realize with older machines. Had a lathe at a shop I worked at years ago drop hydraulic pressure on a Friday afternoon cause someone left a chip stuck in the check valve from the last shift. No warning light until the spindle already grabbed and smoked a $400 holder. It's like your car's check engine light only coming on after the motor's already blown up. Feels like machines just assume we can read their minds sometimes lol.

Three days of work on a 1972 Canon F-1 sounds worth it for that kind of family history. I used to think old cameras were just junk until I fixed my grandpa's beat-up Pentax Spotmatic from 1968. Now I get why people go to extremes to save them, the memories attached are worth more than any digital camera.