Oh my god. I used tech speak on a non tech person and told her that I was free all today other than standup at 9 if she wanted to grab dinner... ...which she interpreted as, I had standup comedy at 9 pm, so when I met her at 7 pm, she asked me about my burgeoning stage career. 🫠

I think today is a good day to open a #codeberg account.

Currently experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect about SIMD and I’m not mad about it.

Any #rustaceans here have experience with nalgebra and SIMD? I'm looking to get a better understanding of how SIMD is integrated into nalgebra and if it is automatic. #rustlang #rust

I am rewriting my geometric constraint library out of Python into Rust, and hooboy this is a lot easier than Cython.

Nerdiest thing I have done in a while… When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering

Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…

Surprisingly spotted in a technical bookstore (Ada’s in Capitol Hill): AutoCAD 2021! I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.

Hot take 🔥 Smoke testing is a dumb term for sanity checking or happy path. Just more useless jargon to sound impressive. (Also if your company *only* does smoke testing, run for the hills)

New savory oatmeal hack: Mama Lil’s pickled peppers

En route to #pyconus after a brief stopover in NYC for part of Never Graduate week! I’ll be talking about debugging in #cython (both at runtime and for memory management) on Saturday after lunch. us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/pre… Looking forward to seeing everyone at the conference!#pycon2525

✅ Laptop closed ✅ Slack uninstalled ✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff ✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon Here's hoping things are on an upward trend

Finally did my first outdoor run post injury (and since moving to Seattle) and nearly got attacked by some Canadian geese (they were just off the running path with their goslings). My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.” 🫠

I fundamentally don’t understand how grown adults don’t buckle their seatbelts.

Finally got a fully working #python #pandas sidecar in @tauri.app 🎉 ...though I should probably rewrite it in @pola.rs 😬 But for now, here's how I did it! mclare.blog/posts/writin...

It's not surprising that the data I collect for some of my side projects has very poor security practices, but finding an unprotected API with a default react username and password in the query string is a new one for me.😬

In a really bizarre full circle moment I just had a student explain a structural system to me that was originally going to be the basis of my PhD thesis (I opted not to pursue the degree and topic).

@pulumi.com makes it easy to deploy static sites and track directory changes if you’re using AWS, Azure, or GCP, but if you’re using Hetzner like me, you’re out of luck. I took a stab at it using git history, but might look into a more robust solution like rsync 🤔 mclare.blog/posts/syncin...

I am so confused why Ryan Reynolds is apparently on the circuit for tech conferences as a keynote speaker (doesn't he have enough money already??) First Autodesk (I must've missed that he's also a developer) and now Postman (does he think the company delivers mail?) What will he even talk about?

I tweaked my IT band after a month of dedicated running (of course...) and the cats are taking advantage of my prone state of working on the couch. However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would. Does this stop them? No. No it does not.

Today's #emacs learning is that I can generate ERDs with #mermaidjs inside #orgmode

Snuggles (and vigorous ear cleaning) on this #caturday #MurphyNCooper

In today’s #rust adventure, I successfully sideloaded a #python subprocess! In today’s #python adventure, I successfully sideloaded a #javascript subprocess! Apparently I’m at the stage of my career where I shove languages into other languages (I swear I have a good reason in both instances!)

Not happy about it but feeling vindicated about getting a new computer last month 😞💀

Is it a coincidence that World Backup Day is the day before April Fools? 🤔🤨🧐

Didn't get around to this on Friday, but the last #structuralengineer #dataviz I had planned as a draft for this project was to *finally* do an Upset plot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet_p...) No frills on this one, but it was fun to figure out how to do this in raw d3 rather than using the library.

Another quick stacked bar chart, less than 10 lines of code with @observablehq.com #observableplot This one looks at for active #structuralengineer licenses, how "old" is the license holder's oldest license, and how many states are they currently actively licensed in.

Real quick #dataviz today. I took all the raw license data (~32000) entries, and plotted the aggregates by year and state in a stacked bar chart. This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.

Today's #dataviz of #structuralengineering licensing data is a reproduction of a plot I made when I was looking at only a few states' data for the average "age" of a license. The original plot allowed you to choose a state to look at their data alone. mclare.blog/posts/is-the...

Not that I don't have enough going on, but I'm challenging myself to do a #dataviz a day this week based on a data set that I compiled at the end of the year last year, but haven't had enough time to properly process and make into a website with @observablehq.com (though I have bought the domain).

Just saw a shocking low salary range for a #software developer posting within AEC. The low end of the narrow range is what I started at as a #bridgeengineer over a decade ago, and the job reqs are not entry level requirements. And #AEC wonders why there’s a brain drain of talent to software? 🤨

Fun things discovered in today’s #differentialdataflow learning/pairing session with shape… #jitsi lets you do this cool overlay of sharing your screen whiteboard style *behind* you

Nothing makes me happier to be a cat owner than doing my morning treadmill run and watching every cold tired person take their dog out to poop on the turf.

I’ve done a really good job of cutting down on expenses in the past few months in anticipation of becoming a hermit, but then I just panic bought a new computer 😮‍💨🫠

No gif has ever summed up my week more accurately than this gif … please send help

Trying to avoid doomscrolling by queuing up videos I'm interested in, so I'm watching some local first talks. Currently watching one from Ink & Switch: "...I'm telling you that a lot the time we're using the techniques to build aircraft carriers, when what we really need is a bicycle."

Hot honey chili crunch on oatmeal is kind of awesome.

I was going to read How To Win Friends and Influence People on the plane to the offsite, but instead I decided to download the cliffs notes (those still exist!) and read this book instead😆😬 Why yes, I am good at peopling like a normal human 😅

Also the cats are not taking no for an answer when it comes to available lap space, so I’m all ears for solutions

Sometimes being an organized pack rat really pays off, like when your partner needs information on fracture mechanics and you took a class a decade ago and still remember where it’s in your notes. For some reason, most of my knowledge is remembering where things are rather than the thing itself 🤷🏼‍♀️

One part of my day job is helping build coverage maps for broadband deployment as part of the IIJA BEAD program, and one of those maps just went live for the state of California! #dataviz #geospatial #maps #gis www.linkedin.com/posts/califo...

One of my proposals for #pycon was picked! Very excited to visit Pittsburgh for the first time. You know I’m going to do a tour of all the #steelbridge s😆…

My husband just tried out using public transit to get to the airport, and apparently it is less than an hour, front door to gate. Whenever I flew out of LAX it was a half day ordeal (and I struggled to get uber/lyft to pick me up) Definitely a #Seattle perk

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. And the change wasn’t magic, or even hard. This is very recent, and it just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too if it wanted to. Great pic via @JBPssx

I feel like I’m really showing my age in that the thing I am most excited about being reunited with… …is my vacuum cleaner. I love my cats, but disposable litter boxes + pee pads, a janky swifter and a dustpan that doesn’t lie flat under its own weight have really been lowering my quality of life.

A friend in the #structuralengineering #aec industry is attending his employer’s panel on professional/business development and how to succeed within the company. Already two of the panelists have said something along the lines of “sheer luck”. 🤦‍♀️🫠

Really happy for myself and @developmentseed.org to be part of GeoJupyter, an initiative to improve interactive mapping and analysis in @projectjupyter.bsky.social notebooks. geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...

I didn’t think 5 years in LA would come to a close like this. I’m fortunate to be well away from the active fires, but I’ve moved up my flight (and leaving out of SNA) to be as careful as I can.

I’ve been meaning to switch from packaging with #poetry for my #cython library to packaging with #uv, but alas, physical packing is kicking my ass.

Doing #dataviz on my latest data puzzle has yielded surprising information that wouldn’t have jumped out to me otherwise. So far I’ve been able to identify two points in time (2008 and 2021) where state legislation changed, causing a massive influx of applicants to avoid onerous requirements.