I own the domain spite-driven.dev, so it’s only fitting that I have stickers that reflect that.

I've been working almost exclusively in C for six months. Here's what I've done for my development workflow within #emacs mclare.blog/posts/six-mo...

The last few months have been a blur, but over the holiday break I got back into some #datavisualization and finished this project compiling and normalizing data for #structuralengineering licenses in the US using @observablehq.com structural-engineering.fyi #dataviz #aec

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! #pycon25

✅ 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.