I came across this #lighthouse image the other day and immediately knew who it looked like. original image by frodejansen.bsky.social

Finally doing some #watercolor painting again and just finished this one of #Greenlake

The entire ".io" domain was owned by a single guy until 2017. That's like letting a private citizen hold exclusive rights to large bands of radio frequencies for decades

Is open source software poised to grow rapidly? What are some good strategies for finding the gems amongst the mountains of raw material?

Cautiously optimistic about Antigravity 2.0, but the fact that it was released in such a buggy state is not a good sign. Really hoping that Google doesn't end up bungling it and killing the product

Starting off a new Substack with the story of how I ended up parasitizing GitHub's infrastructure to build a dependency manager for OpenSCAD heavyradiant.substack.com/p/accidental...

Is the demise of GitHub Copilot a sign of a larger LLM market shift? Is this an indication that companies are tightening their belts and trying harder to turn a profit?

Anyone able to comment on how Deepseek v4 compares to Gemma 4 for coding tasks?

Anyone out there using Gemma for local coding (via tools like Cline, Roo Code, etc)? Curious about how it compares to Flash 3.1 for coding tasks

What would software look like if we minimized engagement instead of maximized it?

What happened to live coding? Are there still people out there coding as a performance art?

I missed old Doodle polls, so I built a replacement. Instead of asking when you're free, it asks when you're not. Conflicts get marked. The best time reveals itself in the empty space. Free, open-source, no accounts ever: timeslot.ink

There should be app races where people compete to see who can finish a complex app fastest and best using whatever tools they have at their disposal

Looking to track down a lobste.rs invite if anyone out there is a member!

What's preventing the creation of a direct-manipulation development tool for OpenSCAD? I'm imagining something that breaks out the AST of the transformations like this model: scadder.dev?file=https%3... We need more intuitive UI for open parametric CAD software

Some funny insights from the Claude Code leak: - They detect user frustration with regexes that match strings like "piece of crap", "wtf", "f***ing broken" - The system hides that Claude wrote the code when submitting code to open source repositories Always double check your .gitignore

Sad to see that Firebase Studio is shutting down, but I understand the logic. Google AI Studio sounds like an effective alternative for browser-based development. Curious to hear how they compare from someone who's used both.

Would people use OpenSCAD more often if the tools for creating .scads were better? Pondering open source hardware and the barriers preventing it from being more like open source software (with vetted libraries of modular components, alternatives to paid products, etc). #OpenSCAD #Opensource #3D

Just released my first npm package for #OpenSCAD and it feels like a milestone! Run "npx scadder install [url-or-model-id]" to pull the respective scad (like the gridfinity-rebuilt-baseplate) from GitHub onto your local machine. #opensource #opensourcehardware #3dprinting #3dmodeling #npm #github

Just shipped Scadder: a serverless web viewer & CLI package manager for OpenSCAD. Compile .scad files in-browser via WASM (shoutout openscad.cloud) or use the CLI to pull dependencies locally. No walled gardens or accounts. 100% open source. github.com/solderlocks/...

Roo Code + Openrouter > Antigravity

Google Antigravity is a great tool, but their sudden model quota change just squandered their goodwill with the developer community and pushed most of their users to look for viable locally hosted alternatives.

Moving from writing code, to designing a series of agents that can reliably write code, to writing a spec that others can use to contribute to an ecosystem of agentic nodes/solvers is dizzying. It feels like "integration" over the problem space when you zoom out to higher level abstractions

What would it take to implement a .f3d -> .scad pipeline? Could we analyze the parametric history of an object and find equivalent CSG transformations for each step? Maybe with fuzzing and AI semantic mapping we can actually interpret design intent and preserve the original parameter mappings.

@oshwassociation.bsky.social could OpenScad files hosted on GitHub serve as the foundation for an open-source hardware community where contributors borrow components from one another and build on each other's successes? Tired of using STLs and other "dead formats" when designing printable objects

What games excel at enabling users to discover/invent their own emergent gameplay? What are some good ways to design for this?

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social What would morality look like in a universe where the arrow of time were flipped? Does that imply that morality is inherently tied to entropy? Pondering Jeremy England's work and its connection to our intuition about "ought"