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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

Just stumbled across a medium article by a web developer which opened with a sentence pointing at the “self hosted version”; the link was broken. This was from 2018.

@jameschip same. Although I’m wondering if kakoune or helix might turn my head. I keep meaning to give them a try

@neil @kly graphviz = dot

@torsten thank you. I’ll try to salvage something constructive and get it out next week perhaps

@mfraz74 that’s very true; the current slicing does a lot to degrade this style of model

I've published my OpenSCAD module to generate randomized, chunky, game-like terrain. It's called "Zarchscape". Available at https://jmtd.net/3dprinting/ (CC BY-SA 4.0). #3dprinting
zarchlike-terrain with a castle footprint cut-out

@cybervegan I’ve never tried CAD Query. I’ll have to give it a look! My background is in functional programs and two niche tools in the 2D space: https://jmtd.net/wadc and https://jmtd.net/doom/liquorice

I’ve been writing a blog post which is quite critical of aspects of openscad’s design but I’m starting to think I can’t be arsed to finish it and might redraft just to show off the model I designed instead #3dprinting

New blog post: Interzone's new home https://jmtd.net/log/interzone/294/ #interzone #fiction

I wonder how this will work! A bit of an experiment #3dprinting
OpenSCAD and Prusa Slicer side-by-side, showing a model of a grass base configured to print in multicolour

Lazy (photo) Layout (circular programs) http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2023-07-22-lazy-layout.html #haskell

The latter case seems to be some fixed object limit in the preview code that I’ve exceeded

In the former case, by the way, the cause was non-planar polygons. The preview function auto-tessellated them with triangles but the render did not. (And didn’t throw a coherent error either, I figured this out by guesswork)

OpenSCAD’s “preview” and “render” functions have such separate code paths that I’ve had a little project preview fine but fail to render; and now it renders fine but fails to preview.

Today was eventful for a number of reasons but my favourite was fixing a bug by adding a single newline character

New blog post: Bea's 3D printer https://jmtd.net/log/bea_printer/ #3dprinting

"reject your favourite animal" is my new favourite band

@stefan she's actually a little disappointed that her printer won't print!

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