For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND" www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

2026 basically

I largely support the Thingiverse purchase by MyMiniFactory. It needs new life and I think AI generated models are a scourge, currently. I could see a day where AI could ethically and efficiently produce a quality model but for now the ethics and quality of the process and results are awful.

All cozy by the fireplace for the winter ice storm of 2026.

On one hand I appreciate that they’re at least sharing the step files…but that’s only slightly better than sharing just an stl of the printer pieces. It’s not really the “source” if it’s not native to the design tool it was made in. I have mixed feelings about a new license. xkcd.com/927/

I wish BambuStudio, PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, and Cura could all agree to work towards using standards compliant 3mf as much as possible instead of creating proprietary data structures inside 3mf. The current software interoperability is really poor. Too many flavors of 3mf exist.

Spotify put an AI generated song in my weekly recommendations and ugh. Wish there was a way to globally turn that off.

remember how burn is useful for 2d masks? it works just as great for 3d masks

I have been waiting for this for 4 years. It makes it possible to do all kinds of neat simulation stuff that otherwise isn’t possible without grids. #b3d #geometrynodes code.blender.org/2025/10/volu...

Hot take: the last 24 seconds of Monster Mash aren’t good. The song is otherwise an iconic masterpiece.

I think something can be called "shipped" when it's first in possession by the carrier and not when you've just printed the shipping label.

Why doesn't Wago make a 4 position 221 series lever nut?

My soul yearns to board the high-speed spite train

Andor is easily the best Star Wars ever made and there aren’t lightsabers in it. Instead we just have believable dialogue and a coherent story with character development. Action wise season 1 felt a slow burn getting started but season 2 was continuous and had plenty of tension in every scene.

Unfortunately relevant again in light of the PBS defunding.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

An incredible out of context quote from “Careless People” was, “…I’m informed that Big Bird can’t take the stage after dark, and that Big Bird and his team are not prepared to do any more accommodating for Mark Zuckerberg.” Love the image of Big Bird and his muppet posse being like “Nah, Mark.”

I can wait to put it in the fireplace and get the flame going behind it. Just the perfect ambience for reading the news.

Is there a simple way to make a list that just excludes certain accounts you follow? Some accounts I follow mostly post about The Daily Horrors and I’d like to banish that stuff to its own tab by default.

PrusaSlicer 2.9.1 alpha is here, and sequential printing just got way more exciting with our new collision detection & arrangement. We’ve also added multi-material interlocking—shoutout to the devs of Ultimaker Cura & OrcaSlicer. Try it out! ⤵️ github.com/prusa3d/Prus...

More AI no *user* asked for.

Too many physical products market themselves as having AI in them. AI is not a well defined term but my sense is that the general public sentiment is negative towards “AI” so it’s strange to use it for marketing. It’s also like saying, “this widget has ✨inefficient black-box-algorithms✨ included!”

The genie is out of the bottle but I think I generally agree with this. The damage LLMs have caused and continue to inflict to the information space outweighs their value in net. It’s difficult to find quality information about any niche topic amidst the query-bespoke sea of AI chum.

I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel for the first time and now I really want to recreate the pastries. The packaging is also a required part of the experience.

couldn’t be me, nope 🙃

Black Friday nah, I'll take Hack Friday! Join the Friday call to show what you are working on tonight at 9pm EST. Sign up here: forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...

I’m mildly shocked that a giant international company like Coca-Cola would think it’s okay to release this. Only mildly shocked because Pepsi had the guts to release the even more tone deaf “Jump In” ad in 2017. youtu.be/IQWUKWM2JrQ?...

New post: Prusa has learned nothing blog.thea.codes/prusa-learne...

Good news: while the default configuration is still terrible and there are definitely some rough edges, FreeCAD 1.0 is actually usable. Some stuff like adding a text emboss to a body is enormously clunky but the basics at least actually work now.

For the past 4.5 years, I've been hosting a call for #makers and #3dprinting folks every Friday at 9 Pm EST. I post a sign up link on Twitter and send out an invite just before the call. Now I'm going to start posting here too. Sign up, bring a project! forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...

Just a placeholder account: I probably won’t post here. I’m not sure jumping onto another social media site run by a tech bro is the wisest solution but the crowds go where they will. Until there is more consensus, my more active posts are on the fediverse at @[email protected]