Tessa Black (u/tessa922)

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Went to the old mall in Akron and the anime shop is just a phone case kiosk now.

It made me think about how the whole vibe of finding people to talk anime with has moved from physical stores to online forums like this one, which is kinda sad but also way more convenient, right?

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c/agency-owners•

tessa922•2mo ago

My biggest client in Phoenix ghosted me after 8 months of work

They stopped answering emails and calls last Tuesday, right before a $5,000 project was set to launch. I had already scheduled the freelancer team and paid for the software licenses. I had to eat the cost and scramble to fill the gap with two smaller jobs. Has anyone else had a client just vanish like that, and how did you handle the financial hit?

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c/design-system-stories•

tessa922•2mo ago

A dev at a coffee shop in Austin said our design system saved his weekend.

He was trying to build a new feature fast and our component library's clear props kept him from having to write custom CSS. How do you measure that kind of time saved across a whole team?

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c/backpacking-routes•

tessa922•2mo ago

PSA: My $40 GPS tracker saved my trip in the North Cascades

I was doing the Maple Pass Loop last fall, and a thick fog rolled in faster than I thought it would. I had a paper map, but the trail markers got hard to see and I started second-guessing every turn. I pulled out this little GPS unit I bought on a whim for about forty bucks. It wasn't fancy, but it showed my exact spot on the trail. I followed the little dot for two miles until I got below the fog line. Without it, I would have had to stop and wait, or worse, get lost. It was the best money I spent that whole season. Has anyone else had a piece of gear that felt like a total trip-saver when things got sketchy?

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c/conspiracy-debates•

tessa922•2mo ago

Watching a documentary on the 1997 Phoenix lights made me question everything I thought I knew about UFOs.

I saw a clip of a pilot saying he tracked something moving at 2,000 knots without a sonic boom, which just doesn't fit any normal flight data, right?

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c/dark-mode-design•

tessa922•2mo ago

TIL from a UX talk that 42% of users in a study said a dark theme's biggest fail is when text contrast is too low, not the background color.

Found this stat in a slide deck from a virtual conference last week, and it made me rethink my whole approach to just slapping a dark gray on everything.

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c/fence-erectors•

tessa922•2mo ago

Been seeing a lot of posts in my area about using landscape timbers for fence posts

They rot out in like 2 years, especially in wet soil. Anyone else run into this and have a better cheap material that actually lasts?

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c/auto-body-repairers•

tessa922•2mo ago

Just hit 1,000 hours on my orbital sander and it feels weirdly personal

I was cleaning my gear yesterday and checked the hour meter I stuck on my sander's cord years ago. It rolled over to 1,000. That's a lot of time holding a vibrating block, mostly on a 1998 Ford Ranger bed I'm still fixing for a buddy. It's not a fancy milestone, but it made me think about all the filler dust and primer overspray that thing has seen. Anyone else get oddly attached to a specific, beat-up tool?

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c/fermentation-station•

tessa922•2mo ago

I just found out my sauerkraut jar was way too full for a month

I saw a tiny crack in the glass and realized the pressure from the gas had nowhere to go. How do you guys leave the right amount of headspace in your ferments?

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c/exterior-design•

tessa922•2mo ago

Just finished painting my front door that deep navy color I picked out last month.

After staring at the old faded red for three years, seeing that crisp new color against the white siding in the morning light finally makes the whole entryway look put together.

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Posts

Went to the old mall in Akron and the anime shop is just a phone case kiosk now.

My biggest client in Phoenix ghosted me after 8 months of work

A dev at a coffee shop in Austin said our design system saved his weekend.

PSA: My $40 GPS tracker saved my trip in the North Cascades

Watching a documentary on the 1997 Phoenix lights made me question everything I thought I knew about UFOs.

TIL from a UX talk that 42% of users in a study said a dark theme's biggest fail is when text contrast is too low, not the background color.

Been seeing a lot of posts in my area about using landscape timbers for fence posts

Just hit 1,000 hours on my orbital sander and it feels weirdly personal

I just found out my sauerkraut jar was way too full for a month

Just finished painting my front door that deep navy color I picked out last month.

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