Ceaseless tinkerer.
I do open source stuff for #Valkey at Percona. Ex-AWS. Ex-#bottlerocket. Ex-#OpenSearch. Ex-#Redis.
Spare time pursuits: #3dprinting, #OpenSCAD, #gardening.
Interested in building a greener future with technology. he/him
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Last Notes npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Lo and behold! Prusa Core One with INDX 'faceplants' with anything but Prusament filament. Who could have seen this coming from the company brought out the (not-actually-open) OpenPrintTag filament identification system? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis A snack I liked until this evening: chili crisp oil on toast. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…f6ts ignore anyone saying Prusa - they aren’t paying attention. Prusa is almost as problematic as Bambu, just with a marketing and open washing. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…ynd9 re: Canada being too cold. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…6jyx I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. In theory, US higher ed is more decoupled from politics than Canadian institutions due to independent governance. We saw how fast that crumbled in practice. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…v673 @nprofile…ctza that doesn’t surprise me. Self hosting mastodon is not easy (see what’s going on with mstdn.ca) so the 922 just for mastohost feels like a bargain. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis An incident occurred. #pizza npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…xu68 Getting the bbox has render time consequences, as the object needs to be completely rendered to get the size, so each object needs to be rendered in sequence. As the model grows in complexity this becomes a bottleneck. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…xu68 so the bounding box problem is a common thing people leaning OpenSCAD ask about (that and fillets!). npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…xu68 Ooooh. That compiles down to #OpenSCAD. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…rk8s that’s somewhat fair. There is zero consistency between brands. PLA CF what? I’d be curious of the methodology across multiple colours, batches, brands. I suspect it would be similar. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Super good video. TL;DR: PLA CF is a scam. Not only was it tested you can see what's going on in a CT image of a 3d printed part. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis My god. Everyone needs to read this: npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis This is one of the craziest #3dPrinting stories I’ve read. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Imagine gaining access to Kohler’s systems only to find this shit. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Business travel messes with your mind sometimes. My last two hotel stays have made being in proximity of a Bentley feel mundane. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…mc9d I don’t like the colour designations. Reds are more rugged than purples? Or something… npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis My #unifi dream machine has a WD Purple 4tb drive for recording video, installed in June 2024 and it’s only about 1/4 full. But now it’s reporting a large number of bad sectors. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis My 3 yr old is babbling about #OpenSource. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn Okay so: npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn humm. Maybe I don’t fully understand the flow tech ecosystem then. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn Interesting. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Chef’s kiss emoji. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis My work on making #OpenSCAD control #OrcaSlicer is progressing. I'm moving from bash to real software. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…naem god. This. is. the. worst. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Good grief. Breaking a debugger in a fork to support your printer via a black box binary? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis This is extremely gross of Synadia: trying to pull back a project contribution to a foundation and switch a #fauxpensource license. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Anyone have feelings about Lenovo #ThinkPad (T14 Gen3) with the AMD Ryzen in 2025 (w/ Linux)? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…kt9v why almost all motherboards of an entire era are toast now and some caused fires. They were all in spec. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…2mzm @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn or, you know, stuff like the capacitor plague. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…2mzm @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn let me be clear, I’m not defending qidi, but I don’t agree that cheap parts are equal to bad engineering. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…kt9v @nprofile…26sn Jesus, those are scary pictures. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis I've been searching for the last hour for this: npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Damn, this is tempting. I'm generally very pleased with my Sovol printers: they're hackable, #opensource, and perform well. They aren't prefect but they're very good. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis "The Wayne Gretzky statue outside Rogers Place in Edmonton #yeg has been vandalized with feces." npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…lhfg from the photo, I would have guessed Australia 😉 npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Weird #3dPrinting question I've been thinking about. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @nprofile…s0cr 356 cups? Seems reasonable. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Anyone wondered if Hawkins Cheezies bags are actually made of Kapton? 🧐 npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Alright. Attempting to move my personal #jekyll site over to #zola. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Anyone have any experience with the static site generator Cobalt? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Super interesting video about #yeg and #yyc. A few tidbits: npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1udj…thf7 that might work in some cases but last I checked memcached had a much more limited data model. If it works for you, go for it though. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Welp. It's official. #Redis is no longer #OSS npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Hey #3dPrinting folks! npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1n70…qpfe FYI: that link doesn’t look right to me npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy Sure, but you end up with code that you can't parameterize that way. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy I'm with you... to a degree. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn @npub1vay…jpzk that’s part of what I’m going to be talking about: immutability means a lot of different things, but there are a few core properties and underlying concepts that are pretty compelling. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn @npub1vay…jpzk ooooh. I’d love to know how you squared that particular corner. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn @npub1vay…jpzk see you there! npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg most media would agree with that. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Oh boy. As a Canandian, I had to read this headline a few times. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1yrl…8gpm @npub12at…me5y ugh. I was just looking a qidi, and this sort of thing scares me. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1yrl…8gpm @npub12at…me5y curious if it’s going to get shut down or void warranties, etc. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy oh wow, the registered URL handler takes it takes it even further. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis TIL: You can pipe code into #OpenSCAD by supplying a `-` as the source file. Pretty standard unix thing, but it's not well documented for OpenSCAD. stdout is in the wiki and help text, but stdin doesn't seem to be. See the PR from a few years ago linked below. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1n3h…uwgc well, I’m curious then. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1n3h…uwgc curious how you are managing safety of materials. It’s do-able in some circumstances but not everyone is prepared for it. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn because C did it so many decades ago is probably a great reason to deprecate it in the year of our lord 2023. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn lol. Well since I confused it for regexp doesn’t speak well to either. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn I wrote the logic for an entire game in regexp. I’m sure I’ll pay for this sin in a horrible way in the future. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe @npub12at…me5y Great job - face down is such a good idea here. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy this _would_ require some level of sophistication in designing and thinking about your code/model fully parametrically plus how the user interacts with it. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy I do like that. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy no, you’re right. Collaboration is a problem in non-code CAD - much of the workflows outside of development have huge problems here. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy The problem with CDC is that everything has to be exactly right and recorded perfectly ever time or things go nuts. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy CDC (change data capture) is what you’re describing. It’s notoriously tricky to get right with even data much less a full turing complete language. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub16mt…pnwy @npub1uwa…z36q change data capture for CAD with a scripting language. 😰 npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Have I introduced my 14 yr old Italian Greyhound? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis #3dModeling / #3dPrinting tip of the morning: if you have bolts that need to be tightened with an Allen key, make sure to design in enough clearance for a 360° rotation. 🤦♂️ npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg I distinctly recall verbally saying “no no no no” when I saw the Java logo come up. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg and it wasn’t even a Java Applet! npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg maybe you were too good for something as mind numbing as this? I was only a viewer/fan. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg flash animation bad it’s day, but it wasn’t really that long. Not surprised you missed it. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Many hours of playing this on loop both on monitor and in my head. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe I don’t live in SF, but everyone I knew who did and worked in tech hated billionaires. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis In the past 7 days, I have written 1492 lines of #TOML. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn no worries, I’m calling in back up on this. If you’re able to do it, there is out of whack somewhere. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn let me ask. I’m not involved from day to day anymore, but earlier this year I was running a 5 minute turn around opensearch install with the operator. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn use the operator, if you can. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis One way that I judge an #oss project is what I call the "minimal contribution friction." npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe 🤷♂️ I guess an angle grinder isn’t too hard to use, but if I had to create a new (likely brass) stamp every year, you bet I’d make it customizable for multiple years. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe I wonder if it’s by design: just a stamp that has removal/changeable bits for an entire decade or something. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis You want to do be a solid? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis Fun CSG rendering bug in #OpenSCAD. The is the same code, the only different is the scale factor. (see red box in each screenshot) npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg I don’t think it would. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis A lot of tools generate or output #SVG. But, oh boy, is it usually bad SVG. Bloated with inline attributes and meaningless order. Bah. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe okay. Lemon into lemonade. I like it. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe it’s nice, but why didn’t they take it down? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis I'm not mad, I'm just deeply disappointed. #opensource npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn meh. You can use it to your advantage. Crash early and crash often? npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn crashloopbackoff seems like a terrible thing in context! npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub17ge…hgsu That's really irritating. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn I can’t decide if you describing your family road trip with #kubernetes terms is horrifying or perfect. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe it really is. When we went in the 80s it hadn’t got super touristy, so I’m slightly afraid to see it now. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1dm5…5sqe oh man. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub1xsy…cevg I think that's what you call a long tail. looooong tail. npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn the coffee nerd in me needs to point out that moka pots do not technically make espresso (pressure isn’t high enough). npub13vkju23uef2rgkca9j5e8q2mcscn07gm0nrjktdaefqz639l48uscswmav Kyle Davis @npub18yv…xxyn stop.
