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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 22/08/2026

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Every object oriented language introduction starts with showing the clean hierarchy of dog and cat inheriting from animal, while every real codebase is like

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Yes, none of this is strictly new, but it’s clear the technology is catching up to promises and I’m excited to see where it goes beyond the expected use cases and of course play with it myself

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I’m envisioning an arrangement where all geometry regen and visualization is done at the client or a service operated by the client and the core model definition is what gets synced. Deterministic regen becomes even more critically important than it is already. God bless our brep kernel troops

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You can build different clients for different use cases on top of the same synced model representation. A significant use case is a client for diffing the outcome of the same model definition across two different geometry services or diffing outcomes of definitions against each other

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Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world

Escaping vendor lock in with CAD is also big. Model definition translation is still of course a problem, but eliminating data control issues is huge www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...

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YouTube video by Local-First Conf

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 07/07/2026

Blown away by the work being done on commoditized syncing fundamentals. Next gen CAD companies could forgo developing bespoke collaboration, permissions, and storage services and focus on “just” the client, parametric model definition, and geometry service

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Big fan of @gvasquez.dev‘s bookshelf. About to learn some stuff

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 07/07/2026

This is beautiful. What are real, user, sys differences?

Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 04/07/2026

Is the engine still tessellating all the intermediate model states before execution finishes? I’m wondering if tessellation blocks the kcl-engine interaction loop

Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 02/07/2026

Excellent example of prime numbers’ value in security. six digits you could too easily memorize by breaking into three pairs

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 24/06/2026

Guy who’s only seen obscure pop culture reflections of the city, visiting LA: Getting big “Lego Paradisa” vibes from this…

Poster for “lego paradisa” theme from the 90s

Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 19/06/2026

Finally got around to using the fiber laser at @hive76.bsky.social . Being able to cut brass is amazing

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 16/06/2026

Current draft of the magnetic coupling system with I2C pogo pins

Model train chassis with linkage, pile of prototypes in the background

Showing wiring and assembly of the linkage

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 16/06/2026

First summer with a 3d printer. A worthy opponent for the AC. It’s like having the oven on

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 16/06/2026

Average wfh developer experiences zero ceiling leaks. Ceiling permeability georg, who lives under the seaworld orca tank, experiences 10 leaks a year

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 07/06/2026

lucky to be alive at the same time as parametric solid modeling

model train chassis onshape assembly with couplers, bogies, undercarriage etc

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 01/06/2026

My neighbor told me his paid dependency keeps having bugs so I asked how many bugs he’s found and he said he just reproduces them, emails the vendor, and gets a new update afterwards that surfaces other bugs so I said it sounds like you’re paying to QA decades old software and he started crying

🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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Damn, man. Criterion channel really is what I want a streaming service to be. Curate some shit for me. Sure, suggest a category just called "yearning", thats perfect

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 27/05/2026

AI this AI that. When will someone be brave enough to put weather, alarm clock, and restaurant hours in the calendar app

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 26/05/2026

Outside testing they have a strong ability to assess the overall product and decide (with UX) if quirks of the implementation fit the big picture or not, where devs are more narrowly engaged and without that insight often overthink minutiae and/or actively permit edge cases that QA would block

Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 16/05/2026

Prototyped in translucent purple if you’re into that. Vase mode was fun. Turns out if you make pinch points < 2x the nozzle diameter you can get distinct closed regions from a single continuous spiral, which is great for strength

Translucent purple profiles of various sizes and shapes about 1 inch thick

Translucent purple prototype illuminated

2 of the final design in green hanging next to each other

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 16/05/2026

Big thanks to @techsquidtv.com & @indyhall.org for having me last week. I talked about what goes into making parametric CAD software and why it’s not yet a solved problem! Also showed off this lamp I designed from a 2d array of 8020 extrusion profiles

Me talking about CAD with an onshape document on screen

The lampshade from the onshape document printed in translucent green & illuminated

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Everybody's a critic

A tortoiseshell cat sitting in front of a charcoal sketch of herself and looking at me disdainfully

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 14/05/2026

I need to look into nextest I keep hearing good things

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 14/05/2026

I have this problem with tests that may panic and I want the test context to async drop the DB it created before exiting the test.. I should probably impl drop for it & block on the process or make a panic handler that does the cleanup

more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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best piece of star wars media is the tie fighter sound

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 03/05/2026

*nyt voice* Critics say “chamfermaxxing” is dangerous. Adam Chamfers disagrees

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 03/05/2026

Public opinion is malleable. I’m hearing windows 12 will usher in a ten thousand year era of chamfer supremacy

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And with the chassis. Truffle isn’t sure what to make of the train yet

Here are the prototype internals, just containing a 22000uf capacitor to compensate for intermittency in power & some wiring to share the track contacts between the motors. The plan is to pack a pi pico, nfc board, and motor controller in there as well

I found some old train tracks in a thrift store and I’ve been working on making a subway car for them

Section view of a train bogie showing internal channels for wiring

Photos of prototype 3d printed train bogies, starting with simple nails for axles and culminating in a powered bogie with motor + gears + wiring + track contacts embedded in the design

Dozens of prototype 3d prints of train parts, all rejected for some reason or another

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This did numbers in the work slack but nobody asked me how I made the train car. That’s fine. I didn’t want to talk about it anyway.

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