Warning: My first digital art show was a pixelated disaster

Three years ago I submitted a piece to a local online gallery without checking the file specs. The image was only 72 dpi and looked super blurry on the big screen. Has anyone else messed up their export settings for a show?

Pro tip: I used a layer mask wrong for a year and it changed my whole workflow

I was painting out a background in a portrait last week and kept getting these jagged edges, no matter how soft my brush was. Turns out I had the layer mask selected but was painting with black on the actual image layer the whole time... I watched a tutorial from 'Procreate Folks' on YouTube and they pointed it out in like two seconds. Felt pretty silly, but now my selections are way cleaner. Anyone have a good trick for keeping track of what layer you're actually on?

Warning: I spent $80 on a fancy automatic coop door and it was a total waste because my old manual one never failed and I'm always up at dawn anyway.

Everyone says they're a must-have for convenience, but after it jammed twice in the cold last winter and I had to go out and fix it, I realized I was just paying for a problem I never had, so has anyone else ditched theirs and gone back to the basics?

My whole tomato setup fell over in a storm yesterday

Had three big pots on a tall shelf, wind just knocked the whole thing sideways. Tomatoes were just starting to get flowers, now they're all snapped and the dirt is everywhere. I'm trying to salvage what I can but it's a huge mess. Anyone got tips for securing pots on a windy balcony?

Remember that dig in Arizona where we found the whole pottery set?

It was the final day of the 2018 field season and my trowel hit something solid, turned out to be a complete Anasazi cooking pot just sitting there. We spent the next six hours carefully exposing it and found three more pieces right next to it, all perfectly preserved. What's the most complete single find you've ever been part of uncovering?

Just read that a single 747 has over 6 million parts

Found this in an old FAA maintenance manual from the 90s I was flipping through. It's not just the big stuff, it counts every single rivet, wire, and bolt. Makes you think about the sheer scale of the paperwork for a heavy check. Anyone else have a fact that makes your head spin about these birds?

My brother said I'd never finish that jar of kimchi, but I just used the last of it in some fried rice.

Heard a guy in Lisbon say he only works three days a week now

I was at a cafe in Lisbon last week, grabbing a coffee before a call. The guy at the next table was talking to a friend, loud enough to hear. He said he'd cut his client work down to just Monday through Wednesday. He called it his 'core income days' and said the other four are for learning new stuff or just exploring. I always thought you had to grind five days minimum to make this life work. But he was so calm about it, like it was normal. It made me check my own calendar. I'm booked solid for the next two months, no room to breathe. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Has anyone else tried a compressed schedule like that while moving around?

PSA: My frozen fries turned into a smoky mess in my new air fryer

I was in my apartment kitchen in Chicago, and a full bag of fries stuck to the basket and started burning after 8 minutes. Has anyone found a good trick to keep frozen items from sticking without a ton of oil?

Remember when a broken walk-in meant a whole day of moving product? That happened to us back in 2012.