Kyle Davis / is on Nostr

Ceaseless tinkerer.  I do open source stuff for #bottlerocket at AWS. Ex-#OpenSearch. Ex-#Redis.  Spare time pursuits: #3dprinting, #OpenSCAD, #gardening.  Interested in building a greener future with technology.

Located in Edmonton, AB #yeg

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2024-03-17 18:32:46

Hey #3dPrinting folks!
I went to #FOSSY 2023 in Portland and it was a blast. They are currently accepting track pitches for 2024 (Aug 1-4).
I'd love to put together a track on Open Source and 3D: the track could have sessions on stuff like printer firmware, OSS CAD/modelling, slicers, maybe even open source 3d printer designs and model licensing talks.
This is a huge undertaking - would anyone be interested in collaborating to pitch/run the track?
(Also anyone interested in presenting?)

2024-02-02 22:05:05

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@npub1yrl…8gpm @npub19sd…u6lg @npub12at…me5y really? All ive seemed to find is a PDF schematic surrounded by pinouts. They look nothing like the spec sheets for most components.
Additionally, Several boards are sold with luck of the draw processors and components, etc.
Give me a deterministic part number with true specs.

2024-02-02 22:00:13

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@npub19sd…u6lg @npub1yrl…8gpm @npub12at…me5y it would be nice for the main boards to have proper datasheets that I list this info.

2024-02-02 21:06:05

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@npub1yrl…8gpm @npub12at…me5y increase until magic smoke escapes?
Wtf are you doing?

2024-01-23 23:06:15

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@npub1yrl…8gpm @npub12at…me5y do you know is there is a proper revision history for this printer?
It seems like they are just changing random major-ish things and calling it the same product.

2023-11-10 17:50:49

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@npub1dm5…5sqe There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
-- Phil Karlton
At least you’ve humoursly solved one of those.

2023-08-21 13:33:43

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@npub1dm5…5sqe I wonder if it’s by design: just a stamp that has removal/changeable bits for an entire decade or something.

2023-08-17 19:11:06

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@npub1xsy…cevg I don’t think it would.
You could manipulate the grouping, but you’d still be left with other messes. I literally went line-by-line manipulating the SVG. I don’t think machines store the state in a way any reasonable human would.
Eg i have 10 boxes with text inside them, all the same colour and font. Humans would have them under a single style. Elements would br ordered together or grouped. Not software.

2023-08-17 18:49:17

A lot of tools generate or output #SVG. But, oh boy, is it usually bad SVG. Bloated with inline attributes and meaningless order. Bah.
I spent probably 5 hrs life unwinding a SVG generated by drawio into something reasonable enough to add to some #documentation.
What I'd love is some tool could use a heuristic or AI to assign classes and IDs to SVG markup and maybe even group visually connected items together.

2023-08-14 18:37:19

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@npub1dm5…5sqe it’s nice, but why didn’t they take it down?