another one, not much of a hack, more of automation 2001 I worked for a localisation company and we had to do this mind-numbing work that involved opening an

another one, not much of a hack, more of automation 2001 I worked for a localisation company and we had to do this mind-numbing work that involved opening an image, selecting the picture, cropping it to a certain size, selecting the image, adding a feather to the selection and adding a faded border around the edge, in photoshop I discovered photoshop actions, which let me record a macro and automate and chain together a bunch of actions. For weeks, I always had my work done on time. like, a few hours of work done in the first few minutes of the day, and I could spend the rest of the time surfing the internet. Then eventually I messed up - the format had changed slightly but I was using my old automation and made a record number of mistakes. they were on to me. my team lead made me show him the trick, and introduced it across the team. And for the rest of that month, we were the most productive team in the company, and all had our work done within half an hour of the start of the day, and the rest of the day to mess around on the internet and play games (I wanna say doom but that seems super old for the time - maybe they were just shitty PCs and couldnt handle anything else)