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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How can we empower people with the tools we build rather than replace them? It seems like the fact that many tech companies view their mission as eliminating the need for workers rather than giving them superpowers is a large part of why there's a growing backlash to tech.

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Anyone out there having luck with Qwen Code local models for agentic coding (using a harness like Cline)?

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just completed an LED dandelion build

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

More topographical map experiments

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Playing with using a Raspberry Pi to control the output of a thermal printer

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Reading The Big Picture by Sean Carroll and it's absolutely incredible so far. Curious about what he'd think of Jeremy England's work on the thermodynamics of life

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I made a quick tool for exploring name ideas for projects and just tossed it online at: nomer.design It's a way to see a bunch of words on the page, select a few, and mash them up to stimulate ideas. Then you can see domain availability for the final result. It's a work in progress but still useful.

nomer.design

Nomer — Semantic Naming Workbench

Zero-AI Semantic Naming Workbench. Instantly filter, mutate, and evaluate names from a 3,000+ word taxonomy.

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

3D printing some iridescent beetles with titanium filament

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Given that the cost of developing software is falling, will the thousands of unusable government websites/apps finally be fixed? Could new ADA cases be won by citizens who have been blocked from accessing services?

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've been experimenting with 3D printing topographical maps lately, and it's neat how slicing the model along the z axis and using a color gradient filament results in a slope map where differing elevations are reflected by different colors.

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I came across this #lighthouse image the other day and immediately knew who it looked like. original image by frodejansen.bsky.social

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Finally doing some #watercolor painting again and just finished this one of #Greenlake

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The entire ".io" domain was owned by a single guy until 2017. That's like letting a private citizen hold exclusive rights to large bands of radio frequencies for decades

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Is open source software poised to grow rapidly? What are some good strategies for finding the gems amongst the mountains of raw material?

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Cautiously optimistic about Antigravity 2.0, but the fact that it was released in such a buggy state is not a good sign. Really hoping that Google doesn't end up bungling it and killing the product

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Is the demise of GitHub Copilot a sign of a larger LLM market shift? Is this an indication that companies are tightening their belts and trying harder to turn a profit?

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Anyone able to comment on how Deepseek v4 compares to Gemma 4 for coding tasks?

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Anyone out there using Gemma for local coding (via tools like Cline, Roo Code, etc)? Curious about how it compares to Flash 3.1 for coding tasks

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What would software look like if we minimized engagement instead of maximized it?

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What happened to live coding? Are there still people out there coding as a performance art?

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I missed old Doodle polls, so I built a replacement. Instead of asking when you're free, it asks when you're not. Conflicts get marked. The best time reveals itself in the empty space. Free, open-source, no accounts ever: timeslot.ink

timeslot.ink

timeslot.ink | Group Scheduling

A stateless, serverless group scheduling utility. No accounts, no tracking, just dates.

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There should be app races where people compete to see who can finish a complex app fastest and best using whatever tools they have at their disposal

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What's preventing the creation of a direct-manipulation development tool for OpenSCAD? I'm imagining something that breaks out the AST of the transformations like this model: scadder.dev?file=https%3... We need more intuitive UI for open parametric CAD software

scadder.dev

Scadder — OpenSCAD Web Viewer & Package Manager

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Some funny insights from the Claude Code leak: - They detect user frustration with regexes that match strings like "piece of crap", "wtf", "f***ing broken" - The system hides that Claude wrote the code when submitting code to open source repositories Always double check your .gitignore

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Sad to see that Firebase Studio is shutting down, but I understand the logic. Google AI Studio sounds like an effective alternative for browser-based development. Curious to hear how they compare from someone who's used both.

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Would people use OpenSCAD more often if the tools for creating .scads were better? Pondering open source hardware and the barriers preventing it from being more like open source software (with vetted libraries of modular components, alternatives to paid products, etc). #OpenSCAD #Opensource #3D

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just released my first npm package for #OpenSCAD and it feels like a milestone! Run "npx scadder install [url-or-model-id]" to pull the respective scad (like the gridfinity-rebuilt-baseplate) from GitHub onto your local machine. #opensource #opensourcehardware #3dprinting #3dmodeling #npm #github

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just shipped Scadder: a serverless web viewer & CLI package manager for OpenSCAD. Compile .scad files in-browser via WASM (shoutout openscad.cloud) or use the CLI to pull dependencies locally. No walled gardens or accounts. 100% open source. github.com/solderlocks/...

openscad.cloud

OpenSCAD Cloud from Autodrop3d

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Roo Code + Openrouter > Antigravity

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Google Antigravity is a great tool, but their sudden model quota change just squandered their goodwill with the developer community and pushed most of their users to look for viable locally hosted alternatives.

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Moving from writing code, to designing a series of agents that can reliably write code, to writing a spec that others can use to contribute to an ecosystem of agentic nodes/solvers is dizzying. It feels like "integration" over the problem space when you zoom out to higher level abstractions

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What would it take to implement a .f3d -> .scad pipeline? Could we analyze the parametric history of an object and find equivalent CSG transformations for each step? Maybe with fuzzing and AI semantic mapping we can actually interpret design intent and preserve the original parameter mappings.

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

@oshwassociation.bsky.social could OpenScad files hosted on GitHub serve as the foundation for an open-source hardware community where contributors borrow components from one another and build on each other's successes? Tired of using STLs and other "dead formats" when designing printable objects

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

What games excel at enabling users to discover/invent their own emergent gameplay? What are some good ways to design for this?

Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social What would morality look like in a universe where the arrow of time were flipped? Does that imply that morality is inherently tied to entropy? Pondering Jeremy England's work and its connection to our intuition about "ought"