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Robin Sloan wrote about something similar a few years back. I think this is one of the most positive things to come out of the current cycle - even if things turn out less revoluti…

Each of these did indeed spawn tests. I used to work there and at the time there were over a thousand ranging from humdrum to David Blaine skydiving. They’re a crowd who really put…

Breakfasts aren’t provided as a form of babysitting. The prevalence of breakfast clubs in schools in low income areas should be a hint as to why they’re instituted. After school ac…

These are the sort of issues that Nix https://nixos.org/ > solves quite well. Pinning dependencies to specific versions so the only time dependencies change is when you explicitly …

Even giving people the single family housing they want, there’s ways to increase the density massively that aren’t being utilised right now. Bringing back terraced houses in the US…

I used to work in architecture, and I think that's where something like an iPad really shines. It was possible to have all the drawing sets on the iPad, and mark them up on the job…

+1 to this. I made some websites for hire in my earlier days and really enjoyed using Kirby. It was simple to setup, simple to host, and then simple to teach the clients how to upd…

Probably Staxel. Bartwe works on that and is active in FNA, a cross platform XNA reimplementation.

Speak of the devil. I was just talking with someone about Neptune's Pride a few weeks ago and looked it up to see if it was still going. I really enjoyed that when it came out. Hav…

Take measurements, draw/model it. There’s a real art in being able to recreate something accurately. For something like this, use a contour gauge at certain offsets from a set poin…

Grasshopper, which Dynamo is really trying to compete against, is in wide use in the architecture world.

I think it’s just endemic to the industry. Even on high budget work with full time project managers we’ll find the subs on site working from an ancient drawing superceded months ag…

There are a number of companies operating in the space. Matterport is one some people in my work have been exploring for documenting projects in various stages of construction. The…

This has been happening, just not really on the web. It’s more located on protocols like gopher[0] or Gemini[1]. Gemini in particular has quite a large amount of projects hosted on…

Good read. Amos used to be the most visible/active developer on itch and his twitter was interesting to read. He also has a lot of other pieces like this that really dig into how a…

The price definitely seems great for the size of the display, but it might be worth looking at the Waveshare e-paper displays if you want to do something a bit more DIY.

I worked on a house where the previously built extension to the rear had been built over a soil pipe that let out into the ground, over the ~20 years since it had been built, it ha…

You might be surprised, and horrified, to find out a not insignificant number of still standing buildings were built with no foundations. On a wing and a prayer, if you will. https…

My ~750ish one to split the difference. https://sr.ht/~jpgleeson/piaine/ I do think this is one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever done.

Motion Twin are a worker's co-op in France that have worked like this for the past 20 years. They are back down to 6 people now but had been a bit bigger until recently when a grou…