My weekly spread actually worked for a full seven days

Last week was a mess with three doctor visits and my kid's school project, but I set up a simple two-page spread with a time tracker and a priority list. I used a green highlighter for my son's stuff and a blue one for mine, and for once, nothing got missed. Has anyone else found that color coding helps when things get really busy?

Honestly, I was at a design coworking space in Austin and saw a guy using the eyedropper tool with a keyboard shortcut I'd never seen.

Tbh, he was sampling colors from his browser to Figma in like half a second without touching his mouse. Does anyone know a faster method than the standard 'I' key?

Reading an old trade journal and found a surprising fact about nail guns

I was flipping through a 1998 issue of 'Fine Woodworking' at the library and read that pneumatic nailers cause over 37,000 ER visits a year. I always knew they were powerful, but that number really stuck with me. Do you think modern safety features have made a real dent in that statistic, or is it still a major hazard on the job?

Just found out how many whole hogs Myron Mixon cooked in a single year

I was reading an old interview from 2010 and he said he went through over 400 hogs that year for competitions and his restaurant. That's more than one a day, which really puts the scale of his operation into perspective. Did any other pitmasters from that era work at that kind of volume?

My first program ran without an error after 47 tries

I was just trying to make a simple tip calculator in Python and kept getting 'invalid syntax' messages. The 47th time, I realized I'd forgotten a colon after an if statement. Has anyone else had a bug that was just one tiny character?

I was at a pharmacy in Phoenix and the touchscreen menu was impossible for my friend with Parkinson's to use

Shoutout to the simple monitor riser that saved my neck

For years I just stacked old textbooks under my screen, but after a week of bad neck pain last fall, I finally bought a basic bamboo riser for about thirty dollars. The difference in my posture and comfort was immediate, and I wish I had made the switch sooner. Has anyone else found that one small change to their desk height made a big difference?