Ha ha, the nerve of dipshits posting very, very obvious AI slop who then block you when you call them on it 😂

Found the most mastodon place ever. The Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades offers short courses in silversmithing, armour making, leatherwork, bronze sand casting, limestone carving, stained glass, corset making and more

https://www.raretradescentre.com.au

@CursedSilicon

Almost 1GB of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines

Today's office

Make a Lisp!

“… Mal is a learning tool

Each implementation of mal is separated into 11 incremental, self-contained (and testable) steps that demonstrate core concepts of Lisp.

Mal is implemented in 89 languages (95 different implementations and 118 runtime modes)”

h/t @sakiamu in catlang discord

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

My workbench is usually a mess due working on different HW projects in parallel.

But I’ve implement a solution mentioned in this article https://jaycarlson.net/2021/09/18/juggle-embedded-projects-home-office-workspace-tour/, basically to use a plastic food tray for each project and having a place to store them.

This allows for easy context switching and helps keeping the desk clean.

#hardware #electronics

Workbench progress report. Non-workbench things have been hectic, so I forgot to take photos of the trestles, but here I'm putting one of the backboards on. Ultimately the workbench will run the whole length of the windows, good light and good for looking out over the garden while doing workshop stuff...

Finally getting my workbench project off the ground. Just need to sit on my hands for a couple of weeks while the timber dries out a bit more...

@Unixbigot @jpm Got this auction in the email, thought you might be interested? https://gollantauctions.hibid.com/catalog/754642/specialist-robotics-and-general-engineering-p-and-e

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116697229275343009

There are many more wheels than doors: https://www.science.org/content/article/bacterial-wheels-imaged-first-time

Not too shabby, just waiting for it to dry after wet sanding, then I can put some finish on it

Making a gift for my wife, time to take the clamps off and see how it's held up

*of course* the sound is screwed. Uno momento...

Anti-gigrobot gunzel action (sound on)

By way of compensation, a joke:

Q: What's the difference between a software developer and a used car salesman?

A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying to you.

This morning in my feed I got to see:

• software developers complaining that AI^Wan LLM wrote a bunch of code that was low-level ok, but impossible to understand at a higher level, and trying to coin new terminology for it despite it being very much not a new problem.

• software developers complaining that they don't like agile because breaking down what you're doing into smaller pieces and communicating it is Far Too Much.

• at least two other software developers talking about how they wrote weird code in the past that wasn't up to scratch and/or did dumb things, what was I thinking, etc.

And, uh, not to inflict my least favourite thing to read on other people, which is a Belligerent Rant, but:

There is Power and Value in Being Deliberate about what you're doing, making sure that There Is A Plan, Communicating That Plan So That Everyone Knows What's Going On Yes Even The Suits, and then Following The Plan Unless There's A Good Reason Not To In Which Case You Change The Plan And Communicate That Too. And sure, it seems Too Slow And Cumbersome, but in the longer term it is so much faster and less hassle than the usual Bunch Of Nerds In A Room** methodology it's not funny. (** - yes, yes, these days it's a Slack Channel, you're very clever)

Think Bandwidth vs. Latency. You got that minor feature done super fast, but Bob needed the same thing three months ago and wrote his version, and Dave M is currently writing something that also needs that feature and he doesn't know or care about either of those implementations, and they're all Mutually Incompatible, Overblown, Special Cased and even Functionally Different, and odds are very good that you could've found a library for whatever it was with about five minutes of web searching and just done `import <thing>` and used that and Been Done With It.

That's *at least* three times the effort of Doing It Properly, and when some ex-System Administrator, ex-Software Manager someone like me comes along in five years time, when you lot are a distant memory, to Work Out What The Hell This System Is Supposed To Do, I will be most displeased. And then I will almost certainly Delete Large Chunks Of Your Precious Code.

#MinusTwoThousandLinesOfCode #WhyDoITProjectsFailItIsAMystery

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