The best user story on my current project delivered zero business value. One abstraction, introduced in isolation, and the team learned more from it than from any other slice. AI agents removed effort as the constraint. Comprehension is what I weigh now. open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

Your User Stories Are Sized for the Wrong Bottleneck

In agentic development the scarce resource is human comprehension. Weigh cognitive load when slicing user stories, not just value and effort.

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Prompt engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, loop engineering, graph engineering, dark factories, ... 🤯 Let's do a speedrun through all these concepts and look at what actually is worth diving into as a swe. youtu.be/j_r93YulrUE #agenticengineering

The state of agentic engineering mid-2026

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Some designs are about solving a problem. This one was about texture, seeing how a ribbed surface would read next to a plain smooth one, same form, side by side. Download's been live a while. Grab it now. makerworld.com/en/models/43...

I finally wrote up a CAD trick I keep reusing: roofs that print without any support. Instead of making the printer cross one wide gap, you stack hexagons, rotate every other one, and shrink them until the opening has closed itself. No more support scars. open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

Stack, Rotate, Shrink: Surfaces That Print Without Support

Stack polygon extrusions, rotate every other one, shrink them and build up your supportless surface.

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Guess what? I'm back in the saddle. Finally found the motivation to start printing a design I've been putting off for a while. On top of that, I came up with a new design concept yesterday, and I'm pretty excited to see where it goes.

"Hexagonal or onion?" is the wrong question. They're the same dependency rule in different drawings. The choice that matters is the other axis: coupling (layers) vs cohesion (vertical slices). New Substack post open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

Trump appears to be relying on a classic "bread and circuses" strategy. Ancient Roman emperors used gladiator games and grand spectacles to divert attention from public discontent. The tools may have changed, but the tactic is familiar.

If you think open source shenanigans are only happening in the 3D printing space, think again. www.opentechhub.io/open-source-...

A win, and honestly, it feels great. A patent troll tried to get my remix of a Shelly DIN mount taken down, claiming ownership of the design. I dug through the evidence, proved the patented design wasn’t actually theirs to begin with, and got my model reinstated.

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Patent trolls found MakerWorld. Got a patent claim on my Shelly DIN mount remix. Pro tip: before claiming ownership, make sure the patent is actually yours and enforceable outside your country. Seriously pathetic.

Time to add custom supports to some parts of this new printable lamp. A few of these parts have very little contact with the build plate to achieve the best possible finish, so extra support is needed. I’ve never had to design my own supports before, so it’ll be interesting to see how they perform.

The Folio 4 from Orangemonkie is not small, but really impressed by the easy setup. It's kinda portable using the provide huge bag 😅 Really exited to try it out take pictures of my next design. I wished they provided RGB front lighting though. I would buy that add-on in an instant.

Oh my lord. This portable photo studio came in a huge box. I hope it is as portable as advertised 🫣

🧵 1/ Just throwing it out there, and probably stirring the pot a little, but I genuinely love all my Bambu Lab printers. They consistently produce high quality prints with very little hassle.

Feeling a bit frustrated. @bambulabglobal.bsky.social keeps on pushing the release date of the Vortek upgrade kit. I've been waiting for it for 3 months now, funds are ready. C'mon Bambu, release the damn thing ...

Released a new layered design today. A 3D printable girl’s face built from separate raised shapes, using greyscale tones to create the highlights, eyes, lips, & hands. Up close you see the layers. Step back a little & the face comes together. Available for Patreon & @thangs3d.bsky.social subs.

Patent trolls found MakerWorld. Got a patent claim on my Shelly DIN mount remix. Pro tip: before claiming ownership, make sure the patent is actually yours and enforceable outside your country. Seriously pathetic.

I turned my ChatGPT and Claude conversations into a searchable knowledge base. The biggest shift was not better prompts. It was being able to find past decisions, reuse solved work, and spot patterns in how I actually use AI. thecraftymaker.substack.com/p/youre-sitt...

You’re Sitting on a Pile of Solved Problems

Make your AI chat history searchable and reusable

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Finished a new lamp design, Pendulum. White dome shade, dark green base, gold silk halo ring, and sized for a 60mm LED puck. Based on a lamp from Poland and now up for subscribers on Patreon, Thangs and Printables. Links in bio. #3dprint #lights #3ddesign

CAVEMAN CLAUDE SKILL: PROMPTS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE Claude code skill "caveman" just added 文言文 (wenyan) mode which uses classical chinese to cut prompt size by up to 60%. Using a 2000 yr old language as a compression layer for tokens is just insane lol github.com/juliusbrusse...

Everything looked right … until it didn’t. In this article, I explore a different angle on AI. Not as a code generator, but as a way to challenge models in Domain Driven Design earlier. thecraftymaker.substack.com/p/ai-wont-do...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1na... Talk like a caveman. Wrap CLI toolcalls. Spend 50% less tokens. What's not to like? #agenticengineering #aiengineering #claudemythos

Cut your LLM token bill in half with these 2 simple tricks.

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New upcoming 3D printable layered art design. Like & subscribe if you don't want to miss the drop. #3dprinting #3ddesign #3dmodeling #art #grayscale

Your skills.md have an expiration date youtu.be/eoUU0bUMFl4 #agenticengineering

Your skills.md have an expiration date. Here's what do to about it.

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Introducing a new Shadow Box of the highly requested K-Pop Demon Hunters. Now available for download! #kpop #3dprint #3dmodel #3dprinttok #hunterxhunter

Software engineer and drowning in hourly slack pings from colleagues and linkedin slop trying to find what matters for the job going forward? 1 newsletter per week, 100% free, fresh and hand-curated. You're very welcome. agentic-engineering-weekly.ghost.io #agenticengineering #aiaugmentedcoding

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Snifff 😭 blog.bambulab.com/the-x1-serie...

The X1-series is EOL - the standard it set will remain forever

Bambu Lab X1 and X1C weren’t just another printers - it was a moment that changed the entire industry.

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Lol, I guess Git Worktree finally found a purpose. You've made it if @jetbrains.com is pushing this "new functionality" in your face 😅 #AI #jetbrainsrider

How Headroom Unlocks 34% More Claude Code Usage (Windows Setup Guide) open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

How Headroom Unlocks 34% More Claude Code Usage (Windows Setup Guide)

How I installed Headroom on Windows and cut my token usage by a third with a single command.

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NEW POST The quality of what AI coding assistants produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating such instructions as infrastructure: versioned, reviewed, and shared artifacts. martinfowler.com/articles/red...

Encoding Team Standards

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Turn up the volume… the K-Pop Demon Hunters shadow box just dropped 🔥 This one blends bold silhouettes with neon-inspired colors to create a piece that really comes alive once it’s lit. Available now, links in bio 👀 #kpopdemonhunters #shadowbox #3dprinting