Anyone out there having luck with Qwen Code local models for agentic coding (using a harness like Cline)?

Just completed an LED dandelion build

More topographical map experiments

Playing with using a Raspberry Pi to control the output of a thermal printer

Reading The Big Picture by Sean Carroll and it's absolutely incredible so far. Curious about what he'd think of Jeremy England's work on the thermodynamics of life

I made a quick tool for exploring name ideas for projects and just tossed it online at: nomer.design It's a way to see a bunch of words on the page, select a few, and mash them up to stimulate ideas. Then you can see domain availability for the final result. It's a work in progress but still useful.

Nomer — Semantic Naming Workbench

Zero-AI Semantic Naming Workbench. Instantly filter, mutate, and evaluate names from a 3,000+ word taxonomy.

nomer.design

3D printing some iridescent beetles with titanium filament

Given that the cost of developing software is falling, will the thousands of unusable government websites/apps finally be fixed? Could new ADA cases be won by citizens who have been blocked from accessing services?

I've been experimenting with 3D printing topographical maps lately, and it's neat how slicing the model along the z axis and using a color gradient filament results in a slope map where differing elevations are reflected by different colors.

I came across this #lighthouse image the other day and immediately knew who it looked like. original image by frodejansen.bsky.social

Finally doing some #watercolor painting again and just finished this one of #Greenlake

The entire ".io" domain was owned by a single guy until 2017. That's like letting a private citizen hold exclusive rights to large bands of radio frequencies for decades

Is open source software poised to grow rapidly? What are some good strategies for finding the gems amongst the mountains of raw material?

Cautiously optimistic about Antigravity 2.0, but the fact that it was released in such a buggy state is not a good sign. Really hoping that Google doesn't end up bungling it and killing the product

Starting off a new Substack with the story of how I ended up parasitizing GitHub's infrastructure to build a dependency manager for OpenSCAD heavyradiant.substack.com/p/accidental...

Accidentally building a GitHub Parasite

How I ended up building a full-blown OpenSCAD package manager on infrastructure I don't own, for free

heavyradiant.substack.com

Is the demise of GitHub Copilot a sign of a larger LLM market shift? Is this an indication that companies are tightening their belts and trying harder to turn a profit?

Anyone able to comment on how Deepseek v4 compares to Gemma 4 for coding tasks?

Anyone out there using Gemma for local coding (via tools like Cline, Roo Code, etc)? Curious about how it compares to Flash 3.1 for coding tasks

What would software look like if we minimized engagement instead of maximized it?

What happened to live coding? Are there still people out there coding as a performance art?

I missed old Doodle polls, so I built a replacement. Instead of asking when you're free, it asks when you're not. Conflicts get marked. The best time reveals itself in the empty space. Free, open-source, no accounts ever: timeslot.ink

There should be app races where people compete to see who can finish a complex app fastest and best using whatever tools they have at their disposal

Looking to track down a lobste.rs invite if anyone out there is a member!

Lobsters

A computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.

lobste.rs

What's preventing the creation of a direct-manipulation development tool for OpenSCAD? I'm imagining something that breaks out the AST of the transformations like this model: scadder.dev?file=https%3... We need more intuitive UI for open parametric CAD software

Some funny insights from the Claude Code leak: - They detect user frustration with regexes that match strings like "piece of crap", "wtf", "f***ing broken" - The system hides that Claude wrote the code when submitting code to open source repositories Always double check your .gitignore

Sad to see that Firebase Studio is shutting down, but I understand the logic. Google AI Studio sounds like an effective alternative for browser-based development. Curious to hear how they compare from someone who's used both.

Would people use OpenSCAD more often if the tools for creating .scads were better? Pondering open source hardware and the barriers preventing it from being more like open source software (with vetted libraries of modular components, alternatives to paid products, etc). #OpenSCAD #Opensource #3D

Just released my first npm package for #OpenSCAD and it feels like a milestone! Run "npx scadder install [url-or-model-id]" to pull the respective scad (like the gridfinity-rebuilt-baseplate) from GitHub onto your local machine. #opensource #opensourcehardware #3dprinting #3dmodeling #npm #github

Just shipped Scadder: a serverless web viewer & CLI package manager for OpenSCAD. Compile .scad files in-browser via WASM (shoutout openscad.cloud) or use the CLI to pull dependencies locally. No walled gardens or accounts. 100% open source. github.com/solderlocks/...

Roo Code + Openrouter > Antigravity