My rain gutter pulled away from the house in a storm last week

It happened after three days of heavy rain here in Portland. I found a big gap between the gutter and the roof edge, and water was just pouring down the siding. I tried to fix it with some new hangers, but the fascia board behind it was pretty rotten. Has anyone else had to replace a whole section of fascia, or is there a better patch job I could try?

Pro tip: don't buy a fancy pH meter for your first few batches of kraut like I did. Wasted $80 on something I barely used.

PSA: I just read that the oldest known bound book is from 600 AD

I was flipping through a library copy of 'The Craft of Bookbinding' by Arthur Johnson and saw a note about the St. Cuthbert Gospel. It's a tiny leather-bound book from around 698, found in a saint's coffin in Durham Cathedral. The binding is still intact after over 1,300 years. Has anyone here tried to replicate a historical binding style like that?

Vent: I spent $200 on an AI writing tool and it totally missed the mark

I needed help drafting a bunch of technical blog posts for my small business website. A friend kept talking about how this AI tool could write whole articles, so I paid for a year's subscription. The first article it gave me was full of weird, generic sentences and got basic facts about my industry wrong. I had to rewrite the entire thing from scratch, which took me longer than if I'd just written it myself. Now I'm stuck with this tool for 11 more months and it's just sitting there unused. Has anyone else tried an AI writing assistant for technical content and had it actually work well?

Honestly thought you needed a college degree to get a coding job

Tbh, I read a report from a tech hiring site that said over 60% of their developers are self-taught. Found it when I was looking up Python tutorials. Anyone else start learning without going back to school?

I used to think wrapping brisket was a waste of time

Last Saturday in Phoenix, I tried a full packer brisket without wrapping it at all. The outside got way too hard and the flat dried out after 14 hours. My buddy convinced me to try the Texas crutch with pink butcher paper for the next one. I wrapped it at 165 degrees and the meat came out so much more tender. Has anyone else had a bad experience that made them switch to wrapping?

Update: I used to drill every single door contact hole by hand

For years, I did it the hard way. Cordless drill, step bit, go slow, hope you don't split the trim. Took forever on a 12-door apartment job. Then a guy on a site in Phoenix showed me his cordless rotary hammer with a small masonry bit. Game changer. It punches through wood and the steel strike plate in like two seconds. Clean hole every time. I bought a cheap one for $150 six months ago and won't go back. The time saved on just one big house pays for the tool. Anyone else make a switch like that on a basic task?

My friend told me to book a flight to Denver on a Tuesday and I saved over $100

He swore by this tip for years, saying airlines drop prices midweek. I checked for a trip in April and a Tuesday flight was $189, while the same one on Friday was $295. I booked it and it worked out perfectly. What other specific booking day tricks have you guys found?

PSA: I tried to fact check a moon landing hoax video and got a weird result

So last week, I watched this video claiming the Apollo 11 flag was waving in a vacuum. I spent an hour digging through NASA's own photo archives, frame by frame. The weird part? The specific image the video used wasn't in the official mission gallery at all, but it was on a bunch of conspiracy sites. Makes you wonder where they even got it. Has anyone else run into a 'source' that just doesn't exist where it should?

Just had a client in Austin get their Google My Business suspended after using a 'growth service' last month.

They paid $300 for some company to post fake reviews and get them to the top of the map pack, but now their listing is gone right before their busy season, so has anyone else had to clean up a mess like this and how long did it take to get reinstated?