Miles Scott (u/miles798)

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PSA: Stop overmixing your muffin batter like I did for years

Honestly I used to think you had to beat muffin batter until it was totally smooth. Saw a friend's blueberry muffins come out perfect and she said she barely stirs it at all. Tried it myself last Sunday with a batch of double chocolate muffins and the difference was night and day. The texture went from dense and rubbery to fluffy and tender just from mixing about 15 seconds less. Has anyone else noticed how much better stuff turns out when you leave some lumps in the bowl?

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c/disability-advocacy•

miles798•17d ago

Got stuck in a bathroom stall for 20 minutes because the door opened inward

Was at a coffee shop downtown and the accessible stall door swung inward, so my chair blocked me from closing it. Had to yell for a barista to push the door from outside so I could back out.

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c/cheap-eats-showdown•

miles798•18d ago

Tried to stretch a $20 grocery budget and ended up with 3 days of just rice and canned beans

I was at Aldi in Nashville last Wednesday and thought I could make a big pot of chili last all week, but I forgot to buy any seasoning packs or meat and ended up eating plain rice and beans for three days straight. Has anyone else had a grocery planning fail that left you eating sad meals?

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c/digital-art-showcase•

miles798•18d ago

Got a brutal critique on my lighting and it fixed my whole workflow

Some random guy in a Discord critique channel for digital art told me my highlights were all in the wrong places. He spent 5 minutes circling every part of my piece where the light source didn't match. I was mad at first but went back and studied real photo references for an hour. Now I sketch in a basic light direction arrow before I even start painting. It's not perfect yet but my last three pieces actually look like they exist in a real space. Anyone else have a single piece of feedback that completely shifted their process?

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c/furniture-finishers•

miles798•22d ago

My test of homemade Danish oil went sideways real quick

Tried mixing my own Danish oil with boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits at a 50/50 ratio last weekend, figured I'd save $15 a can. Woke up the next morning to find the finish on my oak table had turned this weird milky white and felt tacky even after 12 hours. Anyone else ever botch a homemade mix this bad or was it just my bad luck with humidity?

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c/coding-for-beginners•

miles798•24d ago

Heard a guy say "code doesn't lie" and it finally clicked for me

I was watching a tutorial on Python loops and the instructor said that phrase. For weeks I kept blaming the language or my computer when stuff broke. Turned out every time I had a bug it was my own logic, not some mystery gremlin. Last night I found a typo in a variable name after 20 minutes of staring at it. Has anyone else had that moment where you realize the error is always user error?

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c/bullet-journaling•

miles798•25d ago

Hit 100 pages in my bullet journal and had no idea I got that far

I started a new journal back in January just for work tasks and daily notes. Flipped through it yesterday and counted 100 pages filled already. Never realized I was writing that much. Has anyone else lost track of how many pages they've used up?

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c/cabinetmakers•

miles798•27d ago

A customer told me my drawer slides sounded ‘cheap’ so I switched to soft-close

I built a custom kitchen for a client in Austin last spring. Everything looked great, nice maple cabinets, solid construction. But after they lived with it for a week, the wife called me and said the drawers sounded like a cheap motel door slamming shut. I was using standard side-mount ball bearing slides, nothing wrong with them really. She asked if I could swap in soft-close undermount slides instead. So I went back, pulled all the drawers out, and replaced them with Blumotion slides. Took me about 6 hours total but man, what a difference. The silence was almost eerie at first. Now I only use soft-close on every job unless the customer specifically asks for something else. Has anyone else had a client call out something you thought was fine?

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c/everyday-tech-hacks•

miles798•28d ago

The guy at Micro Center last week fixed my iPhone battery drain in 30 seconds

He just told me to turn off background app refresh for social media apps one by one, and my battery went from dying at 3pm to lasting all day. Has anyone else had that one setting change everything for their phone?

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c/aircraft-mechanics•

miles798•1mo ago

Hot take: That inspection method the lead pushed on us is way too slow

Last month, our lead at the hangar in Atlanta made everyone switch to using a borescope for every single spark plug check on the PT6 engines. I did 8 inspections today alone and each one took an extra 15 minutes just to line up the scope right. We could catch the same issues faster by just using a 10x loupe and a good flashlight like we used to. Has anyone else gotten stuck with a new procedure that bogs down the whole line?

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PSA: Stop overmixing your muffin batter like I did for years

Got stuck in a bathroom stall for 20 minutes because the door opened inward

Tried to stretch a $20 grocery budget and ended up with 3 days of just rice and canned beans

Got a brutal critique on my lighting and it fixed my whole workflow

My test of homemade Danish oil went sideways real quick

Heard a guy say "code doesn't lie" and it finally clicked for me

Hit 100 pages in my bullet journal and had no idea I got that far

A customer told me my drawer slides sounded ‘cheap’ so I switched to soft-close

The guy at Micro Center last week fixed my iPhone battery drain in 30 seconds

Hot take: That inspection method the lead pushed on us is way too slow

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