u/Mastbubbles

Every time someone spills wine at a restaurant or gets coffee on their shirt at a cafe, I'm the one who panics and be like "PLEASE DON'T RUB" and Hair dye is the one that breaks me the most.

So I finally sat down, went through cleaning sources (Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart, university extension guides, IICRC guidelines), and scored 50 stains by difficulty across 8 different surfaces.

The scoring is simple: each stain gets a difficulty from 1-4 on every surface (cotton, polyester, carpet, hardwood, marble, upholstery, leather, tile), then I averaged them. Hair dye at 3.5 is the undisputed worst. Turmeric and permanent marker tied at 2.8.

The biggest thing I learned doing this: the #1 mistake for almost every stain is using hot water. Your instinct is wrong. Cold water first, almost always.

I also built a full interactive version with step-by-step removal instructions for all 50 stains if anyone wants to bookmark it or play with it.

Every time someone spills wine at a restaurant or gets coffee on their shirt at a cafe, I'm the one who panics and be like "PLEASE DON'T RUB" and Hair dye is the one that breaks me the most.

So I finally sat down, went through cleaning sources (Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart, university extension guides, IICRC guidelines), and scored 50 stains by difficulty across 8 different surfaces.

The scoring is simple: each stain gets a difficulty from 1-4 on every surface (cotton, polyester, carpet, hardwood, marble, upholstery, leather, tile), then I averaged them. Hair dye at 3.5 is the undisputed worst. Turmeric and permanent marker tied at 2.8.

The biggest thing I learned doing this: the #1 mistake for almost every stain is using hot water. Your instinct is wrong. Cold water first, almost always.

I also built a full interactive version with step-by-step removal instructions for all 50 stains if anyone wants to bookmark it or play with it.

Was bored and went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out when iPhones stopped being boring black/white slabs and started coming in actual colors. Ended up mapping every single color option across all 52 models

Some things that surprised me:

- 2007–2012 was literally just silver, black, white. That's it. For 5 years.
- 2013 the 5C dropped and suddenly there were 8 colors in one year
- Then it went back to boring for a few years
- 2018 onwards is where it explodes, the XR had 6 colors alone
- 2025 has the most ever with 14 unique colors across all models
- Cosmic Orange on the 17 Pro is the wildest color Apple's ever done imo

Also built a full interactive version with every spec, price, camera, and a compare tool if anyone wants to dig deeper.

full interactive version

Each dot is one airline, placed at its home country. Color = continent (blue = Europe, red = North America, yellow = Asia, green = Africa, purple = South America, orange = Middle East, cyan = Oceania). Gray dots are airlines that shut down.

Some stats from the dataset:

- The median airline lasts just 11 years
- 2008 was the worst year, 88 airlines went under (one every 4 days)
- The US alone has lost over 200 airlines
- Italy has an 84% airline death rate
- KLM (1919) and Avianca (1919) are the oldest still flying

Have always been fascinated with airlines, made a whole interactive version, if anyone wants to give it a try.

Each dot is one airline, placed at its home country. Color = continent (blue = Europe, red = North America, yellow = Asia, green = Africa, purple = South America, orange = Middle East, cyan = Oceania). Gray dots are airlines that shut down.

Some stats from the dataset:

- The median airline lasts just 11 years
- 2008 was the worst year, 88 airlines went under (one every 4 days)
- The US alone has lost over 200 airlines
- Italy has an 84% airline death rate
- KLM (1919) and Avianca (1919) are the oldest still flying

Have always been fascinated with airlines, made a whole interactive version, if anyone wants to give it a try.

Each dot is one airline, placed at its home country. Color = continent (blue = Europe, red = North America, yellow = Asia, green = Africa, purple = South America, orange = Middle East, cyan = Oceania). Gray dots are airlines that shut down.

Some stats from the dataset:

- The median airline lasts just 11 years
- 2008 was the worst year, 88 airlines went under (one every 4 days)
- The US alone has lost over 200 airlines
- Italy has an 84% airline death rate
- KLM (1919) and Avianca (1919) are the oldest still flying

Have always been fascinated with airlines, made a whole interactive version, if anyone wants to give it a try.

Interactive version here

I pulled color data from Rebrickable and tried to visualize the full history of LEGO’s color palette.

Since 1949, LEGO has produced 228 solid colors (excluding transparent ones). Today only 56 are still active, while the rest have been discontinued over the years.

The visualization shows when each color first appeared, how long it lasted, and when it disappeared.

A few things that surprised me while building it:

• The palette stayed really small for decades
• The late 90s introduced a huge wave of new colors
• Around 2004 LEGO replaced several classic colors like Light Gray and Brown
• Some colours lasted 50+ years while others only appeared briefly

Curious what people here think, especially if you’ve been collecting long enough to remember some of the older colours.

Interactive version to play with - here

After listening to the news all day, and realising how important this 21 mile passage was, I thought let's make an interactive map for the same.