Visiting the new mural on Central near 8th, I disagree that it's an improvement for the neighborhood.

The bright colors clash with the historic brick buildings and feel like a corporate ad, not local art, so what's a better spot for public art that actually fits Albuquerque's vibe?

TIL my wife's grandpa was a carpet layer for 40 years... and he never used a knee kicker

We were at a family thing last weekend and he saw me rubbing my knees. He just said, 'Kid, I used a power stretcher for every single job after 1978... my knees are the only part of me that doesn't ache.' I always thought you needed the kicker for most rooms, but he said for anything over 10 feet, the power stretcher is the only way to get it truly tight. He swore it added 5 years to his career. Has anyone else made the switch to mostly power stretching and noticed a real difference?

Heard a dev say 'the model just got it' about a weird edge case

Honestly, it was about a new AI that could fix its own code errors after a few tries. Tbh, it made me think we're moving past just making predictions to systems that can actually learn and adjust on the fly. Has anyone else seen a project that really surprised them lately?

Can we talk about how everyone keeps opening the oven door to check on cakes? I saw three people do it at a bake sale last weekend and it made me cringe.

Rant: I used to blast the AC all summer in Phoenix, but my $300 electric bill last July was the wake-up call.

Now I keep it at 78 degrees and use fans, which cut my bill almost in half and feels fine once you get used to it. Anyone have other cheap tricks for staying cool without cranking the AC?

My accountant said to just use a generic NDA for all our client work

We got burned on a $15k project because it didn't cover the specific IP we were developing. Anyone have a good template for creative agencies?

Just realized the difference between a cheap pair of clippers and my Andis Masters

Burned through two budget sets in a year because they'd overheat and pull hair halfway through a fade. The Masters have run cool for three years straight, even on my busiest Saturday. What's the one tool you splurged on that actually paid off?

I used to think a bent paperclip was a fine lens spanner wrench

I was fixing a Canon AE-1 for a friend last year and the front element was stuck. For about 20 minutes, I tried to make a tool from a paperclip and some tape. It just scratched the ring. Now I have a proper set of JIS screwdrivers and a real spanner I got for $35 online. The job takes two minutes and I don't feel like a caveman. Anyone else have a 'tool' they made that they're now embarrassed by?

I finally got my dad to stop believing that moon landing hoax by showing him the retroreflector experiment from the Apollo 11 site.

After he kept going on about the flag waving and the shadows, I found a video from the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico that shows them bouncing a laser off the mirrors left up there, and he just stared at the screen for a minute and said, 'Well... that's pretty hard to fake.'

Got offered a full-time job and a contract gig on the same day in Denver.

The full-time role paid $75k with benefits, but the 6-month contract paid almost double hourly. I took the contract for the cash, but now I'm worried about finding my next thing when it ends in October. Has anyone else picked short-term money over long-term stability and how did you plan for the gap?