Willow Lee (u/willow_lee)

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Just realized my new rasp from the trade show in Kentucky is saving me 15 minutes per shoe

I was skeptical about the price tag, but after a full week of working on everything from draft horses to ponies, the consistent bite and reduced clogging have made my finishing work so much smoother, has anyone else tried a specific tool that unexpectedly cut down their time on a routine task?

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c/climate-action•

willow_lee•1mo ago

Saw a cool rainwater setup at a community garden in Denver

I was walking through the Bluff Lake Nature Center last weekend and noticed their vegetable plots had these simple rain barrels connected to the gutter downspouts. The barrels were just old food-grade plastic drums, but they'd painted them dark colors to stop algae growth. One volunteer told me each barrel catches about 55 gallons during a decent storm. It got me thinking how easy it would be to copy that for home use. Has anyone here set up something similar and had problems with mosquitoes?

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c/bad-design-hall-of-fame•

willow_lee•1mo ago

Shoutout to the confused tourist at the train station in Berlin

I was there last month and saw a guy staring at a huge digital map for a solid ten minutes. He finally turned to me and said, 'The lines are all the same color, but the names are in tiny gray text on a black background.' We both just laughed at how you needed a flashlight to read your own ticket. Has anyone else found a transit map that was more art than help?

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c/css-grid-tricks•

willow_lee•1mo ago

Shoutout to using grid-template-areas over just rows and columns for complex layouts

I was building a dashboard for a client last month and started with the usual grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows approach. It got messy fast with all the line numbers. Then I switched to grid-template-areas, writing out the layout like a simple map with names like 'header', 'sidebar', 'main'. The visual clarity was a game changer, and I could move sections around by just swapping a word in the map. Why do so many tutorials still push the line number method first when areas are so much easier to read and change?

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c/conspiracy-debates•

willow_lee•1mo ago

DAE notice how the 'flat earth' crowd always pivots to NASA budget numbers when you corner them on basic physics?

I was arguing with one last week and he kept repeating the $22.6 billion NASA got in 2020 like it was some gotcha, completely ignoring how that money gets divided across thousands of projects and contractors.

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c/colorblind-friendly-design•

willow_lee•1mo ago

A user told me my green/red status icons were useless to them

I swapped them for checkmarks and X's, which made the dashboard work for everyone. Has anyone else found a simple icon swap that fixed a big issue?

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Just realized my new rasp from the trade show in Kentucky is saving me 15 minutes per shoe

Saw a cool rainwater setup at a community garden in Denver

Shoutout to the confused tourist at the train station in Berlin

Shoutout to using grid-template-areas over just rows and columns for complex layouts

DAE notice how the 'flat earth' crowd always pivots to NASA budget numbers when you corner them on basic physics?

A user told me my green/red status icons were useless to them

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