@king.jordan "On us" is right, we gotta look up sometimes!

My variable names for the first year were basically a cry for help. I had things called thing, thing2, newThing, and my personal favorite, stuff. Real descriptive work there. It took me way longer than I want to admit, probably a full year and a half, before it actually stuck. What finally did it was going back to old code after a few months and having zero clue what past me was doing. Nothing humbles you faster than your own work looking like a stranger wrote it. So the habit came from pure laziness, I got tired of re-reading my own mess.

Three goldfinches in four days is brutal, sorry man. My neighbor's cat does the same thing every spring when the birds start nesting low, and I've noticed it's always the cats whose owners swear they never leave the yard. The baffle plus moving the feeders is honestly the fix, netting just became a birds-get-tangled mess for me.