A dot a day keeps the clutter away

Oh look, cache invalidation, one of the two hard problems in CS, aside from naming things and off by one errors.

Years ago I had a landlord that had been in the British military in some signal/ntelligence role. After, he made a living of stockpiling and selling obscure but simple chips from china to American military contractors.

> I can't imagine the pain of removing each paper sticker and have it shred into various tiny bits and while leaving some sticky gum behind.

One product many have at home (if they've got a wife or if they're a woman): nail polish remover. This is a magical tool for it's ubiquitous. Sure, you can go and buy the proper stuff: but this one many already have some at home.

It works also should sticky stuff fall from trees on your car's windshield (do not use it on the car paint). It's really miracle stuff.

I also "steal" my wife's nail polish itself: I love to put marks on components so I know where they should be plugged. Even on my guns: there are pins that go one side but the other (say the two pins to take apart the lower and upper receiver of many rifles), so I mark them with nail polish from different colors. Cables on motherboard? Color code with nail polish: both on the mobo and on the cable.

Now you don't it to attack the plastic of the box: quickly wipe the sticky gum then clean it with some water.

Besides that from TFA:

> The first thing I did was get rid of every opaque container I owned. Every toolbox, every parts organizer with little pockets, anything I couldn't see through.

I saw a friend of mine doing that 25 years ago and immediately adopted that technique.

Great system! I wonder what the overall usage distribution is like - presumably some kind of power law shape.

shoeboxes are a great size for containers, but does it bother you that they aren't transparent? I really like having clear containers.