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I started a 501c3 nonprofit last year to showcase / highlight relatively unknown but talented artists in other countries in Atlanta, Georgia and we finally completed a visa application to bring one of them to the US.
As an engineer it's been difficult but really fun learning to help promote visual arts, but AI helped speed up a ton of stuff I wouldn't have really know about (like setting up a kanboard to work alongside artists).
* better squares-in-circle packing for n = 31 and n = 34: https://github.com/dllu/packing and https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squincir/
* vibe coded CAD application (paused due to lack of quota on my $200/mo plan). Rather doubtful if GPT-6 Astra can one shot a correct B-rep kernel but whatever: https://github.com/dllu/viboceros
* ray traced chess demo: https://github.com/dllu/chess-rtx
VO is my dynamic language, its weird but i like it. functional, OO and dynamic, its 'extendable' from within the language. - Unicode so Symbols are legit. - functions are first class objects, assignable to variables. - classes are hash with functions assigned to members giving methods. - as much as possible is defined within the language so its self extending. - pre/infix can be defined by the client programmer so pa…
what sets it apart from scheme/lisp?
* the syntax is more similar to block structured languages.
* different brackets are used in different contexts for different meanings.
* the default is infix operators.
internally:
* its not s-expressions
you can see more examples here: https://github.com/seanbutler/vo
i feel it probably has more in common with self/rebol than lisp.
https://shopspec.io/ ShopSpec is a deterministic parametric furniture generator (bookshelves, cabinets, shop carts, leg-and-rail frames, multi-carcass composites) that encodes real woodworking intelligence and outputs shop-ready artifacts. Most recently, introduced the concept of value engineering by sweeping across dimensions to batch evaluate candidates that ranks based on sheet purchases. Also have in beta an MCP…
Is this related at all to sawdust.diy which was posted last What are you working on? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234277 . Has a really similar look and feel but different feature set
I've added ShopSpec to a couple Ask HN threads in the past too.
https://shopspec.io/ ShopSpec is a deterministic parametric furniture generator (bookshelves, cabinets, shop carts, leg-and-rail frames, multi-carcass composites) that encodes real woodworking intelligence and outputs shop-ready artifacts. Most recently, introduced the concept of value engineering by sweeping across dimensions to batch evaluate candidates that ranks based on sheet purchases. Also have in beta an MCP…
This is beautiful and I'm now itching to make a workbench (finally! that initial "how many sheets and what for what size" problem has been the mental blocker) +1.0mm vote to adding metric please!
I've been avoiding using Tailwind or any framework as to try to identify maintainable ways to build with just the web platform in a way that I also enjoy writing code. The last day or so I've been strictly using child combinators (the > in: .container > .thing) and I've found my CSS to easier to read and less likely if not impossible to pollute child components.
Also I recently converted the whole project from a domain-driven source code organizational approach to a more flat horizontally layered approach, that's TBD on its usefulness although first impressions is that I don't feel like something could be amiss when I go to deploy whereas in a heavily domain-driven architecture I get a feeling that there seems to be a stone left unturned somewhere.
It's a deterministic judgement engine for disagreeing inputs. The input interface is shaped for LLMs now, but there's no particular reason it has to stay limited that way & it has a normal API.
I pulled in a lot of research on conflict logics to build it out.
The next big push technically will be an ingest pipeline and a more sophisticated logic engine.
https://shopspec.io/ ShopSpec is a deterministic parametric furniture generator (bookshelves, cabinets, shop carts, leg-and-rail frames, multi-carcass composites) that encodes real woodworking intelligence and outputs shop-ready artifacts. Most recently, introduced the concept of value engineering by sweeping across dimensions to batch evaluate candidates that ranks based on sheet purchases. Also have in beta an MCP…
This is amazing, I may use it for a built-in pantry i'm planning to build. In my use case, I end up with one side at an angle, is there a way to support that?
I've been vibe coding a way to stream my music files collection. Right now I have a server in my NAS which serves a website that streams my music, like an Internet radio but on my local network. I've been very happy to rediscover my collection, especially when I wake up and let it put something random. Maybe it could be something that I could use beyond my local network? (for personal use, of course), what I have now…