Got my laptop stolen at a cafe in Medellin last month. Had backups, but the panic was real. What's your emergency plan?

My coworker told me to just write the code, even if it's bad, and it actually worked

I was stuck trying to make a perfect little program to sort my movie list. He walked by and said, 'Just type something, anything. You can fix it later.' So I wrote a messy script with three nested loops. It was slow, but it ran. After it worked, I cleaned it up in about twenty minutes. Has anyone else found that just getting a rough version down is the hardest part?

Just realized I was wrong about sous vide for a decade after trying it on a cheap steak in my garage kitchen.

I thought it was just for fancy spots until I cooked a $7 chuck roast for 8 hours and it came out like a $50 cut, so what other old-school technique have you guys tried that actually got better with new tech?

I finally started checking for included bark on every single young tree I prune

For years I just looked for deadwood and crossed branches, but a silver maple I worked on in a park split right down the middle during a storm last month. The city forester pointed out the massive included bark union I'd missed, which was the weak point. Now I spend an extra minute on each job looking for those narrow, V-shaped branch attachments, especially on maples and ashes. Anyone have a good trick for correcting them on a tree that's maybe 8 years old?