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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • There is a distinction between an app and a site. An application has many partial state updates. Two updates is uncommon for an app. Way different for a website where people ideally land on the right page from a search engine. There is a place for an SPA but it’s not everything.

    We tend to stick with an SPA even for things which are mainly reads because we’re more efficient in a single tech stack. Sadly we don’t have big tech budgets to do everything. In theory the JS SPA backend can simply run in the backend if there’s no need for an SPA. I had thought hydration and caching to have gotten way better by now but there’s still a good way to go.


  • FreeCAD’s Arch/BIM workbench

    Draw in 2D to create 3D walls. Position windows, doors and others in 3D. Some features like the roof or stairs have their own modules.

    You can always fall back to one of the other many workbenches should you need something not part of a typical home (weird stairs, a detailed cupboard, …).

    I could not find documentation easily in the past but it likely exists. For a video introduction the FCBLounge channel (YouTube) provides great visual tutorials.

    I’ve documented part of our home in this to ideate remodeling. It can be used for pipework but I did not try that yet.


  • Having experimented with this a lot, I’d say it depends :P

    Keyboard only you can get by with 5fps or so, but there’s no real feedback at that point.

    15fps is ok and quite usable. Artifacts are the more annoying thing at that rate. 30fps is really more then necessary (though I agree higher is nice on lcd displays).

    What bothered me most is the limited contrast, pixel density and limited amount of colors on color eink display.








  • mu4e with Emacs

    It’s great because:

    • process a big bulk of emails quickly
    • renders emails in a consistent format, lowering mental overhead
    • can link to individual emails in my notes
    • many mail providers through the same interface
    • custom views crossing many (or some) mailboxes and providers
    • emails available offline
    • tracking pixels and the likes don’t work
    • can search/filter through many mails quickly

    It’s bad because:

    • requires Emacs, high learning curve
    • first setup was cumbersome for Gmail
    • rendering emails as text loses some information (rarely a problem, can view the email as html)
    • no backlink from email thread to my notes yet (should be ok to write)
    • I use another interface on mobile
    • I send emails as plain text which is weirdly rendered in some clients (mostly fine, emitting html possible)



  • Cool! This was interesting to see.

    On the design: It looks like it could be good for laser cutting but I doubt it will do more than CNC engraving wood. Would love to be proven wrong. I think the screws are too close and the leverages too large to be solid enough for cutting. We cpuld simulate it to verify the weak spots. No problem for plotting and laser cutting though. I was surprised by the deflection of the Indymill which has more metal parts.

    On the CAD file: I could easily find my way in the file. I generally constrain more (also importing shapes from other Bodies) which makes it more automatic but also more error prone and harder to calculate. It will be interesting to see an assembly of these parts too.

    Looking forward to updates from this build.



  • You can manually edit the gcode to see if printing white first works out better. Then search for a more repeatable solution if you often re-slice.

    Manipulating gcode looks intimidating the first time but it’s really not that crazy. Cura adds comments to the gcode and you can look up the codes otherwise, I expect Pusa Slicer to do the same. You want to move the whole printing sequence of the white nozzle before the printing sequence of the second black one on the first layer. Keep the setup (heating etc) before that.


  • Congrats on the 10 year anniversary!

    Some employers don’t care. After 10 years you’ve likely shown to provide value without being horrible towards others. We still try to do something but being small sometimes things fall through the cracks.

    Given you’re on Lemmy, you likely wouldn’t appreciate an Alexa device or Chromecast.

    What would you have appreciated? What are the sort of gifts are not overly specific but would still be suitable?



  • I own this. It is horrible. If the specs were real it would be great, but the specs are not real. It is a 3k black and white monitor with a fixed color filter over it. That means you need 3x3 pixels to resemble a color.

    I consider it a scam from Dasung.

    Boox on the other hand made a sane black and white display. Much better. I own a Max 2 Pro. Sadly they fail to understand that when you report a display as 20px smaller than it really is over an HDMI port and then rescale the image of the computer display on that, that it becomes really uncrisp. Their suggestion is to use the display with 200% scaling (so you don’t notice as much I suppose).

    Epaper is really promising and nice. However both of these companies should either get some real competition or lawsuits.