Trick that saved my digital art workflow: batch resizing with actions

I was drowning in file sizes last month. Each layer was massive, took forever to export. Tried manual resizing for like 3 days straight. Then I figured out Photoshop actions let me batch resize and export in one click. Set it up in 10 minutes. Cut my export time from 2 hours to 15 minutes. Anyone else got a simple automation trick they sleep on?

Appreciation post: The old-timer who showed me the real reason for that extra drain plug

Honestly, I was helping a buddy swap a section on a 50-year-old boiler in a Philly brewery and I kept asking why there was a second, smaller plug on the mud drum. The foreman, this guy named Sal who's been doing this since '78, told me it's not a spare, it's a specific blowdown for when the water treatment goes sour and you get a heavy sludge layer. Ngl, I'd have just treated it like a backup. Anyone else run into design quirks on older units that actually had a purpose everyone forgot?

Serious question, I just found out my sourdough starter was way too wet for the last six months.

My loaves kept coming out flat and gummy, and a baker friend in Seattle asked me point blank, 'Is that starter more like soup or dough?' I switched to a much thicker paste and my next batch had the best oven spring I've ever seen. How thick do you guys actually keep your starter?

TIL a customer's comment about my neckline work changed my whole approach

He said my fades were clean but the neckline looked 'drawn on with a marker', so I switched from a trimmer to a foil shaver for that final pass. Anyone else get a piece of feedback that made you change a basic tool in your routine?

I used to skip the water quench for my leaf springs, but a demo at the Salt Lake hammer-in changed my mind.

Tbh, I had to choose between a $90 thermal protector spray or a $30 leave-in conditioner for a major color correction client. Went with the spray.

Just hit 500 linear feet of cedar fencing installed in a single week... by myself. That number feels impossible.

An old timer in a Chicago parts house once told me, 'Kid, you can't rush a good hoistway survey. The building will tell you what it needs if you listen.'

Pro tip: always check the power supply before you blame the main board

Last week in my shop, a customer brought in a gaming PC that wouldn't turn on, and he was sure the motherboard was fried. I pulled out my multimeter and found the 12V rail on his Corsair PSU was dead, so I told him he just needed a new power supply, not a whole new build. How many times have you seen someone jump to the most expensive fix first?

Saw a local news segment get mad about a 'dangerous' new teen slang that I'm 90% sure they made up