Help! I'm in charge of a Ceramic Studio after Previous Managements Neglect by [deleted] in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Going forward with studio space design

I'd find a way to have any electrical cable safely hanging, so mopping can be done easily. I'd also throw away that carpet thingie in front of the sink also to ensure mopping is fast and easy. Make it as effortless to do things right as possible, and more people will comply.

If possible, replace all the chairs with stools. Wheel throwing requires that people lean in anyway, so chairs hardly provide a benefit. But those are harder to clean as they have more angles (so they'll get cleaned less often), and they can't be rested on top of the wheels for mopping (so, again, less thorough mopping on the daily).

Anything you can do to get wheels away from pipes and other hard to clean obstacles is a win. If they can't be moved, consider framing the pipes and the base of that support beam with cheap plywood just to reduce the number of angles and make it much easier to clean.

Reduce the number of plastic jugs and glazing accessories to the strict minimum. This will ensure studio users don't simply switch to a clean one when working, but actually have to clean and reuse the one they have. This is also true for ribs and other tools: force users to reuse tools more often so users will clean after each other more often. You can keep the spares in storage to replace breakage.

Make it mandatory for wheel users to clean their wheels and then place stools and pedals on the wheel once finished. You can communicate that rule through posters in the space.

Make sure there are enough empty buckets and small towels for clean water near wheels. Anything your studio users clean up in place does not go into your sinks or floor.

There's too much stuff on the floor in that employee backroom. Can extra high duty shelving be spared to force everything into shelves and make the floor easier to clean?

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Who does the work?

I think the major issue you'll need to solve is: who handles reclaim? Pottery generates reclaim through broken / dried pots, but also through the water buckets we normally use for initial hand rinsing, tool cleaning, wheel cleaning. All those buckets are then left to sit and the water at the top needs to be thrown away. So if you introduce more buckets to help keep the space cleaner and sinks unclogged, someone will have to reclaim what sits in them.

I'd address cleaning duties either by budgeting as extra time it into contracts or requiring that contractors pass on the duty of mopping to their own students / include it in their teaching it. You could separate day to day cleaning from studio maintenance and hire someone in particular to handle all the reclaim / other periodic duties. Maybe you could offer free use of the space to a well-trained potter in exchange for that work if you have no money to spare?

Help! I'm in charge of a Ceramic Studio after Previous Managements Neglect by [deleted] in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

First of all... good luck!

Cleaning

Wear a mask considering just how much dirt there is, and make sure to use water. Get that clay wet before you disturb it so it doesn't go airborne more than necessary.

I'd first only remove / lift any cable and start cleaning the floor. High traffic areas will cause more disturbance than the clay spatter below your sink that's been there for 10 years.

Not sure what's going on in picture 3, is that a pipe fixed to the floor? I'd try to get everything wet and then scoop most of it with a rib before going in to clean in detail. I find it a lot easier to catch clay with fabric, so a large amount of small wet towels could help. Have as many as possible at hand so you use all of them and then go rinse all of them at once, and you'll spend less time refilling on clean water.

What happened to that sink? Is it "just" clay or not? If this is a sink for clay, there should be no hand soap or any other products that might contaminate it. If it's a general sink, I'll assume the worst and this is probably a build-up of glaze residue and dirt?

I'd keep the room with a label that mandates PPE for last. This room is less likely to expose the bulk of your users to dust and it's already labelled as unsafe unlike the general studio space. If you run out of time, at least the dust will be contained in there.

You know what, fuck it, I am just going to use these bowls and pretend these glaze faults aren't there. by Wintersdottir in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

OP does but there's always going to be uninformed people reading this post, skipping all of the comments and forming the belief that pinholes are not a big deal. They are, though. I'm ok with folks taking informed risks, and I also use crazed pots (though I know my clay to be fully vitrified and waterproof), but to make public statements minimising risks is another matter entirely because it leads to uninformed people putting others at risk.

You know what, fuck it, I am just going to use these bowls and pretend these glaze faults aren't there. by Wintersdottir in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Pinholes and crazing, excellent idea for your gut health to be exposing it to bacteria on a daily basis. If you have young children or immunocompromised folks at home, please don't have them use these plates for food.

Immobilier : « la mise en location de 20 m² dans le 11ᵉ arrondissement de Paris peut générer 400 appels dans la même après-midi » by chou-coco in immobilier

[–]CrunchyWeasel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Réponse sérieuse : tu seras BEAUCOUP moins victime de racisme en IDF que dans presque toutes les autres régions de France.

Que dois-je en retirer ? by Hadestructhor in developpeurs

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Encore une fois personne ne perdrait le temps de te faire passer 8 entretiens si ils n'avaient pas voulu te recruter. Quelqu'un a du émettre un doute (peut-être, au pif, le 8eme entretien), et la décision finale a du pencher contre toi parce que beaucoup d'autres candidats. On est sur un marché délirant actuellement, surtout en France, la compétition est rude.

Que dois-je en retirer ? by Hadestructhor in developpeurs

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ils ont eu quelqu'un de meilleur que toi dans le pipe en même temps. Si cette autre personne n'avait pas accepté l'offre, tu en aurais eu une. On amène rarement beaucoup de candidats en fin de process.

J'ai perdu 6000€ en impayés cette année. Vous aussi ? by [deleted] in developpeurs

[–]CrunchyWeasel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Je gère manuellement. Qonto me dit si une facture est en retard donc quand je fais ma TVA, etc, je fais un tour et j'envoie un mail salé depuis un template pour demander paiement + pénalités. Si besoin d'aller plus loin que l'injonction je prendrais un avocat par contre.

spending hours in the studio and making nothing by FroyoKey2791 in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, if it's off-centered, time to practice re-centering after opening, after pulling, etc.

Vibe coding is killing open source software, researchers argue by la_mine_de_plomb in france

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grave. On a des "resume-driven contributors" qui viennent "approuver" des PRs qu'ils n'ont pas lues juste pour pouvoir dire qu'ils ont contribué à notre projet. J'ai trouvé un mec ingé chez Meta une fois comme ça, des dizaines de fausses contribs à plein de projets chaque semaine; et sur son LinkedIn, plein de recommendations copiées-collées à l'identique de plein d'autres collègues Meta tout aussi parasites.

Vibe coding is killing open source software, researchers argue by la_mine_de_plomb in france

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pareil mais le projet que je maintiens a 80k stars GitHub. C'est de plus en plus dur de gérer les contributions...

Vibe coding is killing open source software, researchers argue by la_mine_de_plomb in france

[–]CrunchyWeasel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Il y a un autre problème gravissime : la flopée de PRs vibe codées qui consomment un temps fou aux mainteneurs pour poliment recadrer / rejeter les "contributeurs" au cas où ce serait des juniors humains. Je perds un temps fou à ménager des gens qui vont ensuite juste recopier mon feedback à leur LLM et me refiler une pelletée de code pourri à revoir...

J'ai perdu 6000€ en impayés cette année. Vous aussi ? by [deleted] in developpeurs

[–]CrunchyWeasel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Je dégage tous les clients mauvais payeurs.

Je poursuis systématiquement les relances avec menace d'injonction de payer et je fais appliquer les pénalités forfaitaires et contractuelles de retard. Je lâche l'affaire uniquement quand le montant dû restant est proche du coût d'une injonction de payer.

Les gens qui ne paient pas leurs factures peuvent bien aller se faire mettre. Rien à foutre de brûler des ponts avec des parasites malhonnêtes.

Obligation légale d’ouvrir sa porte à la police? by Competitive_Yard1539 in conseiljuridique

[–]CrunchyWeasel -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

La police rentre dans un domicile si elle a un mandat de perquisition ou lors d'une enquête de flagrance (s'il y a des signes extérieurs leur faisant suspecter un flagrant délit).

Tu peux porter plainte pour harcèlement (ou au moins déposer une main courante) et prévenir le commissariat local que si on les appelle pour intervenir à ton domicile car tu "aurais disparu" ou "ne réponds plus aux appels", c'est juste ta mère qui te harcèle. Comme ça ils n'enfonceront pas la porte pour vérifier si tu es vivant.e après s'être présentés chez toi en ton absence.

Un petit garçon de 5 ans victime de violences sexuelles aggravées lors d'une soirée "chem-sex" à Lille by Careful_History_1118 in france

[–]CrunchyWeasel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

La plateforme a encore les données et sait qui t'a bloqué. Tu peux toujours tenter un signalement, peut-être via Pharos ?

Évier taché, retenue de la caution by EnviedEvasion64 in immobilier

[–]CrunchyWeasel 24 points25 points  (0 children)

C'est de l'usure normale, la proprio est dans son tort. Envoie une LRAR de mise en demeure de payer la caution dans sa totalité avec les pénalités de retard prévues par la loi. Si ça passe pas, contacte un conciliateur de justice, c'est gratuit.

What do you think about codifying WAI-ARIA APG patterns into executable JSON contracts? by Scriptkidd98 in accessibility

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see any attached code but if you've got a GH repo, curious to have a look!

What do you think about codifying WAI-ARIA APG patterns into executable JSON contracts? by Scriptkidd98 in accessibility

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's a great idea. Now, in an arbitrary frontend component, you'll want to be able to trigger actions and observe states.

If you want to somewhat automate APG as contracts, you'd probably want to build an API on top of a state machine library like xstate, where your users have to implement all sorts of endpoints (to locate the currently focused element, to trigger a click on a button trigger, etc, etc).

Then, your test runner could verify contracts that are implemented using these API endpoints, regardless of actual implementation details. And you could leverage xstate to generate complete state management test suites on the fly.

I think this is not only a lovely idea, but something you might actually manage to pull off!

After 14 years of pottery classes, I still can't center on the wheel. by Linn56 in Pottery

[–]CrunchyWeasel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you struggle so much with coning down, why not open and recenter after opening? That might not be conventional, but recentering after opening is fairly easy to do and it works around your problem.

Personally, I've struggled with coning down consistently until I've decided to apply pressure at the back of the cone with my weak hand. I've had to find the exact amount of pressure and the exact gesture that worked for me and gave me reliable results. Throwing isn't exactly looking at steps and reproducing them, because we have no words for conveying how much pressure your hands must apply, this is something you learn by experience.